Music

Music and Creativity – 2 1/2 minute video

June 17, 2011

We caught this video when curating our page on Background music – how music can improve your life – and thought it was well worth posting on the blog. It’s 2 1/2 minutes long and looks at the work being done by Parag Chordia and the team at Georgia Tech into how music can impact [...]

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Nath Development – Charlotte’s House

June 5, 2011

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So we’re at the annual music2work2 conference in Winston Salem – lots going on including much wine tasting and general cultural intake. Taking some time out this morning to do a bit of research into the Nath piece – it’s supposed to be a blues piece with a French twist so we thought a bit [...]

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Piano Music Improves Sense of Balance

May 20, 2011

Clearly this doesn’t work if you’re listening to the piano after work in the pub, but a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that if you’re getting on in years this might just be what you need to stay on your feet. Dalcroze Eurhythmics Sure, this may sound like a sweeter version of [...]

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Sophomore looks at the effects of Music on Studying

May 10, 2011

Go Ashton Clinger! She seems like a girl after my own heart. Click through and read the article as not only is it an interesting read but her results seem to match up with the much larger data generated by Dr. Haake when she studied the effects of music in the work place. Bottom line [...]

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Stirling Brig – Warm Up

May 8, 2011

Podcast: Play in new window

I’m working on a blues piece in 57 bpm for Nath – have some chops to work up! Was riffing off this old Stirling Brig groove – it’s a simple Em / D thing with the odd C / Cmaj7 thrown in for fun every now and then. Was playing around with it on the [...]

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New Research on Music in the Work Place

April 26, 2011

Dr. Anneli Haake spent the last 6 years studying the effect of music on office workers in the UK; her results were published in the academic journal Musicae Scientiae in March earlier this year. For those of us not familiar with reading large scientific texts, we asked Annelli to give us a lay person’s overview [...]

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Dumbass

April 16, 2011

So the mix is dialed in – files are up on Amazon, Topspin and Youtube – I’m writing liner notes and listening to Dumbass. Without Dumbass – Coyote doesn’t exist. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (yeah – I had big plans for the middle 8 ) http://kelli.com

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