Music – Musicably

December 19, 2024

Music is Life

Why music? 1- Music is Science2- Music is Mathematical3- Music is a Foreign Language4-Music is History5- Music is Physical Education6- Music Develops Insight and Demands Research7-Music is all these things, but most of all, Music is Art. That is why we teach music. Not because we […]

September 30, 2024

Tradition and Creativity in Music

A good friend of mine sent me recently a link to an interesting discussion posted on YouTube, and asked for my comments. As the topic of the panel discussion is music, I just couldn’t resist to write my response here on my blog. So, here it […]

August 31, 2024

Has the Book Business Learned Anything From the Music Business?

It has been twenty years since David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard published their manifesto The Future Of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution. I wrote about it in my April 2017 post called The best way ho not to drown in the “music as water”. After […]

July 31, 2024

What is the Value of Music?

What a question! This must be obvious to everyone! Or – is it? For many people it is obvious. And probably, as it looks like recently, for even more people it is not. Or, should I say, too many people don’t see any value in music […]

June 30, 2024

Are Humans Obsolete?

This is a very broad question, given the rapid growth of the Artificial Intelligence. But as the main theme of this blog is music, this question relates solely to the domain of music. So to expand the question a little bit, it would be – Are […]

April 29, 2024

60 Guitar Heroes Going Home

There are few songs or pieces of music, that have the power and durability to stay with us for the rest of our life from the very first moment we hear them. I have written about my personal music jewels in a post here . One […]

April 1, 2024

Music and Brilliance

Recently I have found an interesting research in the Psychological Science journal, titled An Emphasis on Brilliance Fosters Masculinity-Contest Cultures. Although quite a ‘woke’ topic, it cought my interest after I had a better look at the graph depicting the Relationship between perceived emphasis on brilliance […]

February 29, 2024

The Stupidest “music sound” Usage.

Every year in January a lot of electronic technology professionals and enthusiasts gather in Las Vegas, Nevada for an annual trade show called Consumer Electronics Show or CES. There a visitor can see, what has the electronics industry prepared for the next year, whether those are […]

January 30, 2024

Piano and the Clash of Cultures

This one will be political. We live in strange times, when almost anything could become a contentious political topic. Even such a seemingly innocuous thing as a piano placed in a public space for anyone to play it freely. I had been browsing YouTube the last […]