Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

3/16/2009

Create music with the body

Sound consoles could become a thing of the past. The sound engineers may leave their consoles if it is actually an investigation in England. Scientists at the University of Leeds are trying to develop methods to capture human motion in three dimensions, which would create music with a simple arm movements. If the technique is perfected, would eliminate the need to move hundreds of buttons and knobs to achieve the perfect sound. It could also be used for people with mobility difficulties can view websites.

The system is developed in the music school of the University of Leeds and is to capture three-dimensional movements using infrared lamps. Dr Kia Ng, who leads the project, explained that the infrared light is projected against small reflective balls attached to clothing and monitored by twelve cameras. A computer recognizes the changes in the positions of balls and turns different gestures into instructions for music programs. With the system, anyone can control a musical composition.

"In fact, a person could interpret a note simply winking an eye or moving a foot. Anyone would be able to control a musical composition," said Dr Ng. Of course there is the risk that the wrong gesture leads to a terrible note. Thus the method will have a composition system that can guess what they represent a series of gestures. "The main challenge is to design the system to anticipate the movements," added the scientist. "To identify a movement not only need to know where an object has been and where it is, but where will," he added. Dr Ng expects the system to be tested in a live concert next year.

2/03/2009

High volume music in adolescents

Even at a certain age, make your life a core script with your favorite music: the need to get out of bed in the mornings and study the rhythms are desquiciantes. The aid, in an unconscious way to socialize: Synchronize your time with his generation. Thanks to the music together with their peers and through the same traits as taste in choosing clothes, hair, eat certain brands are autoafirman different from other kids his age and calling the attention of adults.

Part of their identity
In some cases, to speak of identification with the lyrics, although most of the music you hear is foreign. Or do not understand what they say, its reliance on music is a fact and most of their conversations revolve around it.

This dependence affects the rest of the family as it extends, for example, travel by car. The kids love the feeling of going in a car shudders with the percussion group favorite, while parents, desperate dream of earplugs and ejection seats, as those of combat aircraft, or who wish to arrive discs stolen car to end this slavery.

Prefer stuns
The ipod, mp3, cell phones etc. .. allow them to isolate, but not the same. It must mark the distances with their "old" and announce it at full volume. Prefer music that comes out of his room like an explosion, which extends down the aisle and makes waves rumble across the floor. His rationale is simple: just sounds better. And do not put up with at home.

They found that the portable music, which are not separated or in the swimming pool, is an ingenious way to terrorize all adults in general. When we listen, we think clatter and a succession of unintelligible noises that let us make the generational gap. And this despite the fact that we live and the phenomenon of rebellion in our youth and music are supposed to be more willing to tolerate rhythms we dislike, like we had our most hated songs.

You can not do anything for the children of others we do not pollute acoustically, but exercise some control over the conduct of our music. A conversation about the different tastes of everyone and respect that should exist by the preferences of others may be sufficient. It is clear that his music is very important to them, but we must make them understand that we appreciate it more likely that the same happens to them
when we offered to Eric Clapton. Therefore, we must agree on the appropriate places and the optimal volume to listen to music at home.

A good solution is to consider preferences "extremists" of parents and children as "worship music" that can only be heard in private. That is, if heavy metal is superior to our forces, we ask that you not listen in the middle of the living. In return, we will not hear opera, bolero singer or genre or hate them except with headphones or in his absence. In places, like the car or the living, when they meet several family members, listening to something neutral, not dislike anyone.

There is always solution
We let them who are proposing a plan to listen to music is acceptable to themselves and others. But if you are unable to do their part, must accept our standards, which include stop listening while studying, for example, if it interferes with their grades.

9/24/2008

A mixture of musical styles

NEW LABEL
Here are some of the musical styles most likely to merge with other rhythmic different genres.

AMBIENT. Brian Eno invented in the mid-seventies. Sounds planeantes, abstract, lacking the basic rhythmic themes.

DUB. Alternative psychedelic (Shocked) and instrumental reggae, rhythm and relaxed fraught with meaning. His godfather, Lee'Scratch'Perry.

HIP HOP. Black music with syncopated rhythm. Usually the musical mattress for rappers'. New York home and street roots, is very attached to the 'graffiti'.

JUNGLE. In a way, a mutation of hip-hop. Its rhythms are bankrupt, are fast and dry, marked by low and the battery case.

REMIX. It is not a style but a term that refers to the rearrangement of instruments and sounds of a song already finished. It provides endless possibilities.

TECHNO. The electronic music of the nineties. 20 years ago there was the techno pop, but based on the same songs. What is done now is more eclectic and instrumental.

HOP TRIP. Musical melting pot identified as forward from its rhythms, its enveloping atmosphere and the abundant use of recycled sounds. Smells like postmodern jazz-soul, Tricky, Portishead and Massive Attack are the Holy Trinity.

5/29/2008

How was born pop

The Americans invented rock, but the British appropriated the term encompassed dozens of styles and responding to a goal: to create the perfect song that infected the listener and endure over the years.

The Beatles were the first and largest representatives of pop music: rock & roll took the rhythm and blues and other derivatives of black music and compressed in an explosive music and hum, done for young people to identify with her . His message takes over the world to unsuspected limits.

Before 1962, England had groups and soloists such as Shadows, Tornadoes, Cliff Richard and Billy Fury, in the shadow of Americans as Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly or Ray Charles.

With the Beatles, the British aventajaron his first on the other side of the pond, and maintained their status in the sixties.

Merseybeat born in Liverpool, after reaching the swinging London, the Stones, psychedelia, glam and punk, all phenomena patented by the perfidious Albion.

In the eighties, pop was easy and soft because of synthesizers, productions verbose and the preponderance of the image on the artistic content. From Bowie spent a Culture Club, The Jam to Duran Duran. Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna, subjects Reagan, became the pop icons of the decade.

In'89, Manchester becomes fashionable, but the matter does not transcend borders. To make matters worse, the real alternative, rock noisy and dirty, comes from the United States. Then appear first Pixies, Sonic Youth, and others.

As the pride of the British pop claiming his inheritance, the English music press plays an important role, capable of unknown bands that are besieged by record executives. The grouping "Suede", was the first of these flashes of something that began so-called new wave, and then Brit pop.

4/14/2008

The salsa

Although you are known that the salsa was born by the middle of the decade of the sixty in New York, daughter besides Cuban parents, Puerto Ricans and some American musicians that had been contagious of the Latin spirit; the seed of this rhythm, as well as of the Caribbean music in general, you come from Africa: the slaves who brought were of there the drum, key instruments of the Caribbean rhythms.

You have your precedents in the glorious years forty, the time of the big orchestras that you/they played in casinos when in Cuba it governed Wiper, and in United States artists like Benny sounded I Lived or Core. Little by little, the Latin music infected North America. In the sixty, the Hispanic youths felt minority and they began to claim your rights. Your political conscience grew and they approached to your roots from the Latin difference. You are here when the salsa is born.

As for the history of the name of this musical rhythm, many versions are managed. That most accepted one, you have origin in Caracas, in a programa of radio call "The hour of the bembé, the guaracha and the salsa", sponsored by a tomato ("Pampero") mark that Cuban music offered. Then the bearer of this programa, Fidias Danilo Staggers you said: We will hear Tito Bridge and we will put you some tomato salsa Pampero." That tomato salsa not only began to associate with those rhythms, but rather when the founder of the konseal "Fania" Caracas visited and you heard all ésto, you took together with your konseal to this rhythm with your name that you would last for always.

You are as well as this name, identified to a music that contributed the youth of the seventy an own language and a sound different from the rock and Anglo-Saxon roll. Your letters and sounds were a reflection of the life of the own Hispanics: violence, discrimination, guapería, loves and indifferences revived with spectacular and passionate dances.

The ends of the eighty were hard. Puerto Rico, Colombia and Venezuela took the testimony creating your own salsa aligned with your own rhythms. The stars of Fania, were of layer drop: some had gone, other dead one, and in Europe the invention didn't clot completely. For ende, the erotic room was born. In 1980, Louie Ramírez and Ray of the Peace, they formed the group Warm" "Night, but the explosion arrived in 1986 with Lalo Rodríguez and Eddy Santiago, being these sale leaders. Starting from then, the women began to notice the singers, they bought disks and they saved the business. Many topics reintroduced the salsa in the lists of successes of America and Europe. Of the Dominican Republic Juan Luis Guerra, finished off the boom with "hopefully you rain coffee."

The Latin different sticks

This musical style, arranges an incredible collection of rhythms and Latin traditional sounds.
Here the most important go

Areíto: You dance and Antillean music of the aboriginal ones.

Bolero: Created at the end of the XX century by José Pepe you Crown, you are one of the general purposes rhythms that have had interpreters of all the latitudes.

Bugalú: Of short existence, but of intense flavor. With the bugalú, the Latin musicians tried to counteract the acme of the rock and roll. You are peasant's mixture and rock.

Chachachá: Rhythm created in the cuarente by the Cuban violinist Enrique Jorrín that prevent internationally.

Peasant: The Cuban peasant's music.

Guaracha: Irony, roguery and double senses, so fruitful in the Cuban music. Your musical base, the one is.

Mambo: Your paternity has been disputed diverse musicians, but who put to dance mambo to everybody you were Dámaso Pérez Grassland.

Pachanga: Some of the Latin music's more excitant rhythms. Created by Eduardo Davinson in the years fifty and developed brief, but intensely, in New York for the Latin musicians. Not he/she has anything to do with the pachanga concept that one has in Europe, related with the whole music bumpkin to dance in verbenas.

Rumba: You have three different sticks: the guaguancó, the yambú and the cumbia. These varieties are only played with drums and voice.

They Are Montuno: The general purpose in the Cuban music. In the, the African tradition and the Spaniard cohabit, and of him they are born all the Cuban other rhythms practically.

Language of the salsa

To survive in the salsoteca and to enjoy, you suit not to doubt and to have very clear what you mean each thing.
For ésto, we offer you a small dictionary so that you use it and still enjoy more than the sauce.

To settle down: To play an instrument and to dance well, with a lot of flavor and feeling.

Sugar: Expression of flavor that indicate that you are enjoying.

Lip: Lip to infer of the man or woman of black race.

To toss a foot: To dance.

Handsome: Pretty, quarreler, rough and vacilón.

Mommy: The girlfriend or partner d euno.

Dad: The novi or the mommy's partner.

Chicken: Pretty woman.

To burn: To dance very plaster to our couple.

Rumba: Party.
Member, failure, asere and you adjoin: The friend and rumba godfather.

Sonero: Singer that have the virtue of improvising texts while you interpret a song.

The stars that have popularized the salsa in the world

Baptized in New York and breastfeeded by Puerto Ricans and Cuban, the salsa is peppered music of life.
Here we offer you more names than they popularized it in the world.

Eddie Palmieri: "the king of the white ones and the quarter notes
You call your orchestra the band of the happy feet, you destroy the pianos to blows, they call you "Rompeteclas" and your great desire is to insert you kettledrums to Bach. This from New York one, revolutionized the sauce taking a risk with the most experimental sonority, merging the "riffs" of the Cuban trumpet with the duets of jazzy trombone. Your salsa is not the habitual one that destroy the feet of the accomplished dancers; him his is musical imperiled vanguard and without complex.

The Great One Warps of Puerto Rico: "the mulattos of the flavor"
Under the direction of Rafael Ithier, this Puerto Rican orchestra takes 30 years playing with sure cadence about the essence of the they are and the salsa. For many, his is the best show in the planet. Fear as "The death", "Love me", "Not there is bed pa' so much people" and "The party of Pilito", they are Latin pure locira from Puerto Rico.

Van Van: "the witty of Cuba
Band with more than 25 years destroying bodies to make dance. Juan Formell captains the band that have given topics like "Shepherdess has guararé", "Witty" or "Titimanía." They maintain the Cuban orchestra's structure, but without trumpets. Your secret: to respect the tradition and to align it with tendencies from New York.

Willie Columbus: "armed with a trombone"
You were born in Bronx, you were raised in the street and you had the good taste of changing the trumpet for the trombone. You also had the luck to trip with Héctor Lavoe and Rubén Blades. Not it has pasted strong among the great public, but the puristic salseros they save your disks like a relic. Your letters are songs to the life, street histories of the neighborhood, peppered by the rewind force of your trombone and the scream of the Latin town.

NG the Band: "the one that send"
Been founded at the end of the eighty by José Luis Cortés that had been with Van Van and Irakere, you show off of having the metals of the terror and your letters are chronic street of Havana. They broke musical molds and starting from your essence it was born Havanan Chranga and The Physician of the Salsa.

Famous that made popular the Salsa worldwide

This Latin genus, "the Salsa", big musicians that have known how to transmit and to infect the passion that come off of this Caribbean music have given. There are some of them here.

Celia Cruz: "the guarachera of the world"
When Celia was born in Havana, you broke the mold and you burst the flavor. Your years they were never noted in your face, less in your physique and spirit. You always knew how to put to enjoy to whole generations to the they are of your password: "Azzzzzzúcar!" With more than 800 recorded topics, you began with the big teachers of your island, you were the voice of Sound Matancera.

Rubén Blades: "the poet of the salsa"
This Panamanian one that in 1994 you showed up to the presidency of your country, you are an atypical character in the universe of the sauce. In the seventy, you slapped to this musical genus with some topics where the letters, chronic urban duras with Quixotic characters, occupied a preferential place. "Plastic", "Pedro Knife" or "Pablo Town" are good examples of it. Blades searched to play the human sensibility and you have flirted with the literature.

Oscar D'Leon: "the biggest sonero"
With Ismael's licence Rivera, the biggest sonero is Venezuelan Oscar D'Leon. Your capacity to invent, with the music and the word, in the development of the they are montuno, you are overwhelming. To hear you is an exhausting exercise. With him, the musical expression reaches your maximum perfection. Your melodious voice, with your rhythmic inimitable and attractive fraseo, accompanied by a flowing and perverse improvisation, wraps up perfectly to your orchestra's rhythm. Ambitious, demanding, joker, vacilón, intelligent and I list as the hunger, you are a gentleman above the scenario.

Héctor Lavoe: "the voice"
The singer of the singers. You died in 1993 and still today one cries your absence. You played the neighborhood boy's story that arrive to rich and you don't assimilate your success, and the drugs caught it. Your crystalline shade allowed you to sing everything. you tried to commit suicide in 1988 and you were, practically invalid. Your legacy is unbeatable, and your memory, unforgettable.

Tito Bridge: "the genius of the kettledrum"
Alive legend of the Latin music, hit your kettledrums during all the times of glory of the Afro-Cuban sound. In your music, they converge the jazz explosively, the Afro-Cuban (they are, rumba, the chachachá, guaguancó) purest styles, the bolero, the polka, the foxtrot and the rhythm of which are considered the alive king: the mambo.

11/29/2007

The Neanderthal toward Rap Music

The man of Neanderthal, the man's actuál ancestor that inhabited the earth about 30.000 years ago behind, possessed his music and dance, very similar to today's " rap " in day, as the British scientist counted Steven Mithen (of the University of Reading) in his study.
"People often imagine to the Neanderthal like a boring and grumpy individual, but she had a great pleasure for the music",
Mithen indicated. The academic said that the songs that it created expressed some such emotions as the bewilderment and the happiness. we All are musical. We are able to appreciate the music in certain way and to respond to her.
The man of Neanderthal could have used songs and sentences that had not had to break down like it happens to the modern language", it considered.
Steven Mithen thinks that our ancestors possibly sang, they applauded and they danced to communicate its psychic state. "They didn't have words. In certain sense they were more musical than us", he/she said. On the other hand also, to cause that they met in caves, the knots among their groups were reinforced the whole time. "He/she had to have many songs in those groups.
Today in day the music continues using he/she stops to narrow the group bonds. Only coarse to look the multitude in a soccer stadium, the choir in a church or the children in the patio of games", it pointed out.
Finally, he/she said that the neanderthales was not so creative although their songs were transmitted from a generation to another successively.
For their pleasure, the surest thing is that the man neanderthal that already had completely evolved vocal chords, imitated the song of the birds and other natural sounds to create his music " rap ".

For that Pink tells Alecia Moore

Several versions exist about the famous singer's nickname Alecia Moore, more commonly well-known for “Pink”. The official version mentions to one day in which Alecia was in people's replete auditory in the Y.M.C.A (Christian association of Young) in Doylestown, the suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she lived when it was small.
It turns out to be that a “boy” it went down him the pants to Alecia and immediately he/she blushed... being their red cheeks, rather rosy, in English, “pink”
The following one, happens in their pre-adolescence. One night, he/she looked at television with their friends. It began the movie then “Reservoir Dogs” (Dogs of the Street), and they noticed a valid coincidence with one of their characters: “the gentleman pink” who was the leader piola of the group that there appears.
But the most fearless in all the versions, lapses in their intimacy, in fact in their first approach with a brown boy. This man, he/she had never known the total nakedness of a white girl. To the moment of her to take off the pant and him to see their intimate area was surprised and he/she said: “Oh my god! It's pink!!!” (Oh my God, is rosy!)
The certain thing is that Pink loves all that is crossed by the road and all that has around to its. He/she lives in Beach, California, it Conquers and he/she has in their house sheets on all their idols –Bob Marley, Aerosmith,
To the Pacino, Robert Of Niro, among other -. He fascinates strange mascots, he/she has two rats: Thelma and Louise. Starting from the adolescence it also formed part of diverse punk groups and vowels. But their rebelliousness gave the note insistent times, being prey of the police in its times of full adolescence:
to enter in private property of the school at night with a bottle of alcohol, to kick a school, and other bus how many times more! Already to the thirteen year-old age, Pink was in scenarios with a band that played in different clubs, where he/she used to hurtle from the scenario to the tables... in short, Pink went by different contractors, with those that didn't agree, until giving with its most recent boss: Laugh.
The rebellious Pink... But... who him still that danced?

Spice Girls Now Return

After seven years of silence, the Spice Girls rushes today its new disk, Greatest Hits". With new topics and a reissue of the big successes, the spicy girls return with everything.

Finally a return with new disk! A summary of big successes and two new topics of the Spice Girls, will give life starting from today to the Greatest more prospective Hits of the moment.
It is that the girls warm they took charge of entering to the study to record their next ones you sail, Headlines and Voodoo. The disk –que put on for sale today in Mexico and Great Britain - it will be gotten in our country starting from Wednesday.
The big world successes included in the disk -like Wannabe, Spice up your life and Goodbye, among other - they will be been able to listen since in different versions some topics they were chosen in their version for radio, others in their form of it sails and some few ones were reissued for the album.
The new one sails (to see video) it will be the official topic of the campaign in favor of the needy children, Children In Need", in the United Kingdom. One moved Geri Halliwell declared that for her Headlines is a great song of love and a classic of Spice carried Girls.La of the disk it is decorated with five jewels –una for each one of the girls - that conform the word Spice.
Victoria in amber, Emma with pink ruby, Mel C is diamond, Geri sapphire and Mel B he/she is reflected in an emerald. Anything of knick-knacks.
The Spice Girls was the feminine group with more sales in the history. And while Wannabe is the one it sails more sold of the world for a feminine group, they have in its to have the sale of more than 64 million disks in the entire world.
The international tour that will mark its return today in day has the visit from the Spice to 18 cities, almost double when the return was announced. They arrive in Buenos Aires January 24.