Palo Beka – Musicably

September 30, 2023

Does Music Improve the Society?

“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.” This quote by Confucius keeps comming back to me. So for this blog post I have decided to […]

August 30, 2023

Losing Trust in Our Voice because of the AI

Watched this video about how “Nobody knows what music is anymore” by Wings of Pegasus. There you can hear and even see a graphical analysis of a human singing voice, that is automatically tuned and corrected by a computer program. The truth is, that I haven’t […]

July 31, 2023

Matteo Mancuso – Guitar Virtuoso

It was a long time ago, when as a beginning music journalist I went to see a concert of a jazz guitar phenomenon Stanley Jordan. Myself, as well as the large part of the audience couldn’t believe what we had experienced. Jordan’s playing technique was absolutely […]

June 30, 2023

How Music Benefits Your Brain

One of my first blog posts was about How playing an instrument benefits your brain. Since then there has been a lot of new research done on this topic and also there are new videos about it on YouTube. As this is exactly the theme Musicably […]

May 25, 2023

Tina Turner 1939 – 2023

I have seen Tina Turner live in concert twice, back in the nineties, and her musical energy was absolutely impressive. Older generations’ music legends are slowly leaving this world. But their music remains. That was my first thought when I heard the news last night, that the […]

April 30, 2023

New Old .. or .. Old New?

Please have a look at the two photos above and let me know in the comments below, which vases do you think are older. Left or right? To make it easier for you – or, maybe to confuse you more, I can reveal here, that there […]

March 30, 2023

No Greatness in ‘For Greatness We Bring’

As is quite common here on my blog, inspiration for this post came from a posting on social media. This one was about a mother, who asked on TikTok if her 10-year old daughter’s first music composition can be really played. She showed the three-line piece […]

February 28, 2023

Brighten Your Day with Kazoo

Yesterday my daughter came from the orchestra rehearsal with a tiny piece of plastic instrument – kazoo. Young players got those apparently to broaden their musicality. What a great idea! While I had been driving my daughter home, she showed me, giggling, her new music instrument. […]

January 31, 2023

10 Must-Reed Music Books of 2022

It was exactly a year ago that I wrote a post about interesting music books published in the previous year (link). As I liked the time I spent browsing through dozens of new published books related to the broad topic of music, following is my new […]