June 27, 2025

The Musical Theft: How Cultural Degradation Serves Technocratic Control

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

More Than Just Listening: How Making Music Actively Boosts Your Mental Wellbeing (Backed by Science!)

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

Poisonify

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 […]
February 28, 2025

Audience Choir Of The ‘Twistable Turnable Man’ – Jacob Collier

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 […]
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 how not to drown in the “music as water”. After […]
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 […]
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 […]