January 30, 2026
A few weeks ago I was watching the news, where Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood behind a podium and did something we haven’t seen in decades. He threw out the old playbook. He unveiled a new, inverted food pyramid – a total reset for […]
December 29, 2025
We’re losing music. Not recorded music – we have more of that than ever. We’re losing something far more precious: the living tradition of making music together as families and communities. And ironically, two seemingly opposite forces are accelerating this loss: well-meaning parents forcing music lessons […]
November 30, 2025
Recently I read an interesting article about music on the Psychology Today website. I think it is worth summarizing it here. The title of the article is The Principles Of Learning Any Skill, with a subheading Music is a promising tool for improving cognition and promoting well-being. […]
October 31, 2025
Recently I found a very interesting, nicely short, and right-to-the-point definition of music. I really liked it, but thought that there was just a one more piece missing. So I have played with it for a while, and think the result is quite satisfactory. What do […]
September 29, 2025
A haunting vocal melody has been captivating millions on YouTube. Tagged as the “Song of the Mamuna Tribe” from Papua New Guinea, it features what sounds like an isolated indigenous community singing with ethereal, otherworldly beauty. The 10-hour loop video has racked up countless views, even […]
August 28, 2025
Recently I have been reading a couple of books that immediately I could relate to music and its impact on humans. In our hyperconnected world, two books by researcher Alex Soojung-Kim Pang have struck a chord with millions seeking balance: The Distraction Addiction and Rest: Why […]
July 31, 2025
A few day ago, I returned from a transatlantic European adventure, my wallet emaciated from relentless inflation that ate my savings faster than I could say “eurozone”. In a an attempt to not completely bankrupt myself, I did what any frugal, slightly masochistic traveler would do: […]
June 27, 2025
Cultural Engineering or a Conspiracy The inspiration for this post comes, as quite often here on my blog, from Rick Beato and his YouTube channel. Recently he was live discussing his evaluation of the Spotify Top 10 songs. The title of the video is self-explanatory The […]
May 29, 2025
We all know that feeling, right? That shiver down your spine when your favourite song plays, the way a melody can instantly lift your mood, or how a powerful chorus can make you feel connected to something bigger than yourself. Music is undeniably powerful, and we […]
April 28, 2025
We stand at a pivotal moment, witnessing artificial intelligence rapidly integrating into our lives. It evokes parallels with the Industrial Revolution, roughly 300 years ago, when steam power replaced animal labor. Back then, technology liberated us from physical toil. But the current AI revolution presents a […]
March 31, 2025
Apple unveiled their new Mac Mini M4 in the fall of 2024, and everyone’s been raving about this tiny computer ever since. Meanwhile, my reliable iMac has been acting up, spinning its fan like crazy. So, last week, I decided to give the new Mini a […]
February 28, 2025
One extremely positive realization – People haven’t forgotten how is it to make music or sing together. A great proof of this is Jacob Collier and his Audience Choir. It is an undeniable fact, that what the 30 years old British musician Jacob Collier has already […]
January 30, 2025
As in some previous years, the beginning of a new year is a good time to look back and see what the previous year has brought. In this case I wanted to know which non-fiction books about the topic of music may be worth checking and […]
December 19, 2024
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 […]
November 30, 2024
“I love you very much”. Those were the very last words my dearest Mom told me just a few days before she left us forever. Rest in peace, Mamička.
October 31, 2024
Artificial Intelligence is a topic that we can see more and moe often everywhere around us. Just a few days ago one of the largest computers producer Apple introduced their new operation system and new hardware machines, that together are supposed to open a new era […]
September 30, 2024
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
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 how not to drown in the “music as water”. After […]
July 31, 2024
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
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 […]
May 31, 2024
Funny article in one British leftist newspaper, about children’s access to music.
April 29, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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 […]