Category: Music

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If You Suspect You Have Psychotic Tendencies, You Probably Love the R&B Group Blackstreet

Fernando Kaskais

by Jeff Gross The good, the bad and the ugly things we learned about our bodies today Do you find yourself putting Blackstreet’s seminal 1996 jam “No Diggity” on every playlist you make? Do you love Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”? If so, congratulations! You might be a psychopath. That, according to Pascal Wallisch, a clinical assistant professor of psychology at New York University, who might find himself regretting releasing his preliminary study on the connection between music and psychopathy. Wallisch told the Daily News that he tested 260 highly recognizable songs and found that 30 showed promise for predicting whether someone was a total fucking … Continue reading If You Suspect You Have Psychotic Tendencies, You Probably Love the R&B Group Blackstreet

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How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music

Fernando Kaskais

ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN: A screenshot of the author’s software system, which produced oddly beautiful, inside-out, upside-down music.Photo by Kyle Yamakawa I wanted to build the ideal collaborator. Was I ever surprised. BY JOHN SUPKO  ARTWORK BY DORAZIO PIERO On a warm day in April 2013, I was sitting in a friend’s kitchen in Paris, trying to engineer serendipity. I was trying to get my computer to write music on its own. I wanted to be able to turn it on and have it spit out not just any goofy little algorithmic tune but beautiful, compelling, mysterious music; something I’d be proud … Continue reading How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music

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How Bach Will Save Your Soul: German Philosopher Josef Pieper on the Hidden Source of Music’s Supreme Power

Fernando Kaskais

Art by Carson Ellis from Du Iz Tak? “Music opens a path into the realm of silence.” BY MARIA POPOVA Some of humanity’s greatest and most fertile minds — including Oliver Sacks, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, Aldous Huxley, and Friedrich Nietzsche — have contemplated the power of music, and yet the question of why music moves us so remains unanswered, and perhaps unanswerable. Why is it that music can permeate our deepest memories, help us grieve, and save our lives? Four years after his increasingly timely case for shedding the culture-crushing shackles of workaholism, of the German philosopher Josef Pieper(May 4, 1904–November 6, … Continue reading How Bach Will Save Your Soul: German Philosopher Josef Pieper on the Hidden Source of Music’s Supreme Power

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What Happens in Your Brain When You Learn a Song

Fernando Kaskais

http://content.jwplatform.com/players/2FBI3h6G-5Zdv3OJ1.html The human neocortex learns and recognizes new songs with amazing efficiency. See how it works By Alyssa Pagano and Jeff Hawkins The neocortex is the part of the human brain that processes the world around us. It controls language and motor function. It helps us recognize our friends’ faces or our favorite songs. And it’s where our brain stores all of the information we learn. When you listen to a song, the sounds enters your ears and neurons fire in your neocortex. If you hear that song a second time, fewer neurons will fire. This is because your brain forms new synapses when … Continue reading What Happens in Your Brain When You Learn a Song

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‘Sgt. Pepper’ Is the Greatest Album Ever — Unless You Don’t Think So

Fernando Kaskais

Robert Fraser /EMI Records LTD On its 50th anniversary, is it finally time to stop expecting a silly, catchy album to be an unassailable cultural totem? Tomorrow sees the release of a deluxe reissue of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, almost exactly 50 years since it first hit record shelves. It’s a major anniversary of the greatest album ever made. If that claim makes you roll your eyes, don’t blame me: It’s what the culture decided a long time ago. The record that featured the Beatles on the cover dressed up as a fictional band, Sgt. Pepper has been considered a … Continue reading ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Is the Greatest Album Ever — Unless You Don’t Think So

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A Laboratory for Feeling and Time: Pioneering Philosopher Susanne Langer on What Gives Music Its Power and How It Illuminates the Other Arts

Fernando Kaskais

“Music is ‘significant form,’ and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated sensuous object… Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.” BY MARIA POPOVA “Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts… and the most sensual,” Susan Sontag wrote in one of the most beautiful meditations on the power of music. Aldous Huxley, in his immensely poetic reflection on why music moves us so, recounted “some exquisite soft harmony apprehended by another sense” as he listened to Beethoven in the dark. This sensorial splendor of music is what Helen Keller, … Continue reading A Laboratory for Feeling and Time: Pioneering Philosopher Susanne Langer on What Gives Music Its Power and How It Illuminates the Other Arts

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ARIANA GRANDE AND THE ILLUMINATI BETA KITTENS OF POP CULTURE

Fernando Kaskais

by Buck Rogers, Staff Writer Waking Times Terrorism is part of the new zeitgeist, and it serves a litany of political and social objectives for government, as does occult symbolism which is introduced to our culture by Hollywood and the beta kittens of the Illuminati-controlled music industry. Symbolism and Sacrifice In the case of the recent Manchester attack, the intriguing matter of Illuminati sybolism is overtly present, given the fact that the attack took place at an Ariana Grande concert, a performance artist who is unquestionably part of the Hollywood/Illuminati cult of mind control and social engineering. This is the segment of … Continue reading ARIANA GRANDE AND THE ILLUMINATI BETA KITTENS OF POP CULTURE