October 2006

Sex Er Cise

October 31, 2006

Been listening to the session “Sexercise.” This is a slow, soothing piece – one that is especially good for background music. Listening to it closely, I can almost see an awakening or a blossoming taking place. The beginning is soft and slow and it builds in melody and complexity with the addition of the piano. [...]

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Weird…….

October 28, 2006

One of the weirder pieces of news I’ve read about recently, was in Tuesday, Oct. 24 Digital Music News Daily Snapshot. Apparently Axe Deodorant, owned by Unilever, has joined with Vervelife, a “digital media experiences that not only reinforce your brand’s personality, but are accessed through custom-branded, web based environments,” to produce a hangover Recovery [...]

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Vincent

October 26, 2006

music2work2‘s “Vincent” is such a pleasant, soothing little piece. The piano is alone in this one but the notes – the major ones you hear as well as those in the background – produce a melody that makes you feel good. It’s hard for me to listen to this piece and not smile. The simplicity [...]

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The Duel

October 24, 2006

As I watch the brightly colored fall leaves from my window, dancing, swirling, rising and falling in the cold NC wind, The Duel from music2work2.com is playing. The leaves almost seem to move in time to the music. A leaf starts to make it’s way to the ground but is lifted by the wind and [...]

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Arrival

October 23, 2006

I was just listening to Arrival.  One of the amazing things about music2work2 is that it can be listened to in several different ways. Listening closely to Arrival, the piano, at the beginning, seems to me to be announcing that something is about to take place. It captures your attention – an event is about [...]

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Whose problem is it?

October 21, 2006

Digital Music News reported that Apple has discovered that less than one percent of their video IPods shipped after September 12 were infected with a Windows virus. Who was responsible for the problem – – Apple blamed Microsoft “for not being more hardy against such viruses,” and Microsoft said it is a quality control problem [...]

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Positive Word of Mouth

October 19, 2006

From life experience in general, and specifically from doing volunteer work with a non-profit organization, I would be inclined to say that most often people who are dissatisfied are the ones who speak loudest. My experience has been that complaints far outnumber compliments. So, it was very encouraging to me to read in WOM Research, [...]

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IPods and hearing loss

October 18, 2006

A study by several leading hearing experts offers guidelines to safe listening of IPods. They reported, according to Digital Music News, that the average person could listen to the IPod for 4.6 hours a day at 70 percent of its maximum volume without increasing the risk of hearing loss. A separate study took into account [...]

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