The London Contemporary Voices (LCV) is a unique and contemporary choir based in London. I have been thoroughly enjoying revisiting a few videos of theirs, especially from the Mahogany Sessions I have come across of late. It seems they gig with some quite big names, working with artists such as Imogen Heap, Amber Run, Jarvis Cocker, Nitin ...
Musical child prodigy Alma Deutscher started playing piano at two and violin at three. By the age of six, she had composed her own piano sonata and her first opera by seven. At nine, she wrote a concerto for violin and orchestra, completed her first piano concerto at 12, and two years on, sold out her debut ...
The lullaby is evocative of a mother’s love, care, and protection, of being cradled in her tender arms, and of being tucked in at bedtime. The lullaby is the memory of our grandmothers and our ancestors. It is an archetypical sound, ancestral, as well as a foundational connection with our culture. Lithuania is a beautiful ...
In February 2015, the bluegrass duo of Abigail Washburn and Béla Fleck, who have a deep appreciation of Chinese culture, gifted the world for the Lunar New Year with a cover of a traditional Chinese Folk song called Hao Hua (Beautiful Red Flower) — but like you’ve never heard it before, being accompanied by a banjo instead of ...
Deep listening can be thought of as “listening to learn.” It is an active process that can be applied in any situation, whether you’re catching up with an old friend, meeting a potential business partner, or representing a group of individuals engaged in dialog with another group. It can even be used as a kind ...
I first came across Katy Mantyk’s music through a song called Let it Flow, a folk-pop, Americana sound played on acoustic guitar with a floating melody like an echo drifting through a forest. It had heart, healthy heart — the kind of remedy of sound to share with someone who was at a loss in life or ...
AMB is a music academy in California that is pretty unique when compared to other music schools — it is the only academy of music in the U.S. that is completely dedicated to teaching music to blind students. David Pinto, the founder of AMB, has even developed special software to help the students learn music ...
Due to COVID-19 having practically kept the world under lock and key, live gigs and music concerts came to an unexpected halt. Since then, artists have been scrambling to come up with new ideas to keep their profession alive. At the same time, many adults and kids have taken up learning an instrument for the ...
Back in 2011, Japanese telecom company Docomo wanted a creative advert to introduce their new Touch Wood phones. They contracted creative director Morihiro Harano who decided to showcase a Bach music composition played through a long, custom-made xylophone by using one of the four fundamental forces of nature — gravity. The musical ad The ad ...
Many people have observed that some sort of connection exists between music and mathematics. A harmonious musical piece can even be said to be something equivalent to a perfect mathematical construct. Compositions created by Beethoven also show a strong mathematical undercurrent. Some even believe that it might be his instinctive grasp of math that may ...
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