Adele’s music has the power to please. We turn to neuroscientists in vain to understand why. What explains the magic of Adele’s song? Though personal experience and culture play into individual reactions, researchers have found that certain features of music are consistently associated with producing strong emotions in listeners. Combined with heartfelt lyrics and a [...]
Books &Music Entropy | 17 Mar 2012
Changing Lives – Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music.. The story of conductor extraordinaire Gustavo Dudamel, and the music education program, El Sistema, that led him to success. When Gustavo Dudamel, at the age of twenty-eight, ascended the podium at the Hollywood Bowl for his inaugural concert as conductor of the [...]
Music is the poetry of the air. Humanity’s musical treasures — Beethoven piano sonatas, Schubert songs, Mozart symphonies and the like — come to life in performance. But they truly survive as black marks on a page, otherwise known as scores. Now a Web site founded five years ago by a conservatory student, then 19 [...]
Books &Music Entropy | 13 Jan 2011
Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) bring you this amazing new deluxe hardback 12″ x 12″ book, 200 pages, 100s of stunning absolutely killer Bossa Nova sleeves from Brazil plus loads of historical, cultural and social text as well as biographies on loads of the artists! Bossa Nova And The Rise Of Brazilian [...]
Architecture & Design &Music Entropy | 10 Dec 2010
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.- Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849) Chopin Year Celebrations on 200 Birth Anniversary Sculpture of Ordered Chaos Visualizes Chopin’s Music The design was for recent multimedia exhibition of [...]
Books &Music Entropy | 26 Nov 2010
Listen: Herman Leonard and his World of Jazz Herman Leonard’s life was an example of the phrase “everything in its time.” Shortly after earning a fine-arts degree in photography in the late 1940s, Leonard was making a living as a commercial photographer during the day and hanging out in jazz clubs in New York at [...]