Music – Musicably

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, wheather there 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 […]

December 30, 2023

This is Your Brain on Piano

It has been quite recently that I realized, that Pinterest could be a great source for information about music and, surprisingly, music research. Especially when searching for pictures, graphs, and infographics. I know, this shouldn’t be a surprise. But I thought, that Pinterest as a visual […]

November 30, 2023

ARC Conference on Music

The end of October 2023 had been very busy for many reasons. One of them was, that the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship organized a three-days inaugural conference in London, England. An event considered by some as a conservative equivalent of the WEF annual gathering in Davos, […]

October 31, 2023

Arts for Health – Music

If you have been reading my blog for a while, you probably know, that the main theme of my effort here is to write about intersection of music, health, and wellbeing. I strongly believe that music, especially the active music-making, or musicking, has a lot of […]

September 30, 2023

Could Music Prevent a War?

“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 […]