Writer’s Playlist

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 – Piano Blues Clip

May 25, 2011
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Currently developing a blues piano piece for Nath (that’s her T-shirt design in the box up there on the right!) I’m working at 57 beats per minute and beginning to get a feel for the tempo; theme hunting will start soon. Paying members of music2work2 got the full 11 minute version of this piece as [...]

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Why Listening to Music at Work Could Make You Smarter

February 3, 2010
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I was going to be a doctor – just like my dad – but music kept getting in the way.  Whether it was zoning out instead of studying, or skipping school to hang out with Adrian (who had the Yamaha QX1 Sequencer,) the older I got the less interesting academics seemed and the more attractive [...]

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Paul – 13 minutes 23 seconds

June 4, 2009

Strings and Piano – written for Paul.   $1.99 – Download Now It’s a crazy information overload world – especially for those of us who live in front a screen. Where do you start: email, internet, tweetdeck, rss feed, facebook or the word document and spreadsheet that you’re supposed to be working on – the [...]

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