Maria Bamford and Richard Kind ( Everything's Gonna Be Okay) play a word game celebrating Kind's musical theater performances, even the performances he doesn't remember very well.
What does a Dinosaur sound like?
( DOUG JESSOP'S JESSOP'S JOURNAL – ABC4 NEWS – SALT LAKE CITY, UT) Video games have always had some kind of sound to enhance the experience . From the tonal blip of "Pong" (yeah, I'm showing my age) to full orchestras of today, it's clear that music is an integral part of the video game experience.
In this episode of Jessop's Journal I had the pleasure to sit down with Chance Thomas . Yes, Chance is his real name . You'll have to watch the story for the origin of his name.
You may know his work and not even realize it. Chance is the guy that created the music for Lord of the Rings Onlin e as well as James Cameron's Avatar video games. Yeh, those little projects. He's even got an Emmy and Oscar.
I have to admit, a big part of the reason for this interview is because of my youngest son, who as a kid would have me listen to music and guess where it came from and then he would grin and tell me it was from one of his video games.
In my opinion, a lot of video games are a form of escapism where you need to have a certain amount of "suspension of belief." Chance gave me the perfect example when we talked about a project that he worked on that featured dinosaurs coming towards you. Last time I check there weren't a lot of microphones around when dinosaurs were walking around Vernal, Utah. You can see their bones now, but people really don't know what they sounded like.
What do you think a dinosaur coming toward you sounds like? Chance described being in the mountains working on this project and seeing two trees sway apart. He thought; "That's what would happen if a dinosaur. I'm imagining this thing getting closer and closer. Steps, thump, thump. Imagining what it would feel like if my house was shaking. What if a T-Rex stuck his head through these trees, right now, and roared at me?"
It could be said that Chance is a method actor. As he put it; "You put yourself in the emotional state that you have to convey to your audience." He went on to say; "Music flows from, and conveys, emotion."
Consider this your personal invitation to watch this entire episode of Jessop's Journal and share it with someone that you know that like a good story and maybe even, a good video game.
Everyone has a story. I strongly feel that "stories have power ". Chances are that if you are going through something, that someone else probably has as well. The shared experiences we humans have can help each other. That my friend makes the point that stories "help us understand each other."
Fort Wayne music groups host ‘May Day Rally to Restore Music’ | WANE 15
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Musicians of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and Fort Wayne Musicians Association, AFM Local 58 celebrated “May Day Rally to Restore Music” at 1 p.m. on Saturday at the Allen Country Courthouse Green.
The celebration included a key note speaked, Ray Hair International President of the American Federation of Musicians.
The Dayton Daily News reports that a northbound car on Route 4 in German Township collided with a southbound minivan at about 4 p.m. Friday.
Moby: Classical music is ingrained in me | Entertainment | oleantimesherald.com
The 55-year-old star has revealed he was surrounded by lots of classical musical influences during his childhood and even though he's made his name in a different genre, his music has always featured "classical elements".
He shared: "I grew up surrounded by classical music. My mother was a pianist. My great-grandmother actually taught classical composition to Arthur Fiedler, the legendary conductor. My uncle was a classical flautist.
"So even though I grew up playing in punk rock bands, classical music was sort of ingrained in me from an early age."
Despite this, Moby acknowledges that his new album, 'Reprise', is markedly different to his earlier releases.
The chart-topping star's upcoming album will feature orchestral and acoustic arrangements of songs from earlier in his career.
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JCC offering summer music courses | News | oleantimesherald.com
Jamestown Community College students play guitar outside on the Cattaraugus County campus. The college is hosting several music-related credit courses this summer.
Those with a taste for music will have many opportunities to learn something new this summer at SUNY Jamestown Community College.
Summertime offerings on the college's Jamestown and Cattaraugus County campuses include learning how to play guitar, private voice and instrument lessons and student-created internships with local theaters and music venues.
For those interested in music listening, different musical styles and the history of music, the college also offers a music appreciation course that requires no prior musical experience.
"It's mostly non-music majors who take the class, actually," said Dr. Neil Flory, JCC's associate professor of music. "The course does count as a SUNY Gen. Ed. credit for the arts. Anybody who is interested in music at all can take it and get that credit to fulfill one of their gen ed categories."
Students may tap their feet to Taylor Swift or Jason Derulo, but they will mostly lend an ear to numbers and tunes that helped develop and inspire today's music and its performers.
It is Flory's goal for students to recognize and celebrate musical differences and to broaden their minds to become "ethical musical listeners."
"That means appreciating a musical approach for what it is and not for what our culture says what we would want it to be," he said. "Appreciating the different viewpoints. We get into cultural values as well. We get into diverse perspectives, and ethical concerns related to culture and bias."
Flory said the class also covers the development of notable musicians, their viewpoints and what influenced their music making. One example is controversial German composer Richard Wagner.
Outside/In: The Trouble with Music About Wilderness | New Hampshire Public Radio
When composer and traveling musician Ben Cosgrove was just 7 years old, he wrote a song called "Waves." Since then, he's made a career out of music inspired by landscape, place, and wilderness.
Over the years, Ben began to wrestle with what his music was really saying about the natural world.
There is a lot of music about the outdoors, and our relationship to it. But it's genres like classical, new age, and ambient that can sometimes feel authorless, as if the absence of vocals allow us to hear instrumental music as a representation of the natural world.
"I've always tried treating the rest of the world as a sort of writing prompt. Without using words or images, how can you suggest what this looks and feels like," said Ben Cosgrove, a musician who started playing music when he was 4. Because he's loved the outdoors as long as he has loved playing music, he has made a career out of representing place through song.
But over the years, as Cosgrove's career and music have developed, he started to question the kind of stories he's telling. He started to feel troubled.
"I wasn't necessarily saying things I didn't believe. But I was ignoring most of the landscape by only focusing on the places that didn't have people in them," Cosgrove said.
There are many songs about nature—songs that warn about pollution, like "Mercy, Mercy, Me" by Marvin Gaye or "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell. And there are songs about how we use nature from a practical perspective, like hunting and fishing.
What all these songs have in common though, is that they use lyrics to help shape their perspectives on nature for the listener. Cosgrove's music, on the other hand, is more enigmatic. If it weren't for the title of the song and the image on the cover of the album, you probably couldn't say for sure what inspired the music. But when you throw in a title that references nature, suddenly it might feel like the song is just transporting you into the outdoors, celebrating the beauty of the wild, and the pristine. Which, far from being simple observation, actually represents a certain environmental ethic.
"For a lot of my music, both in the way it was recorded and in the way I thought about it, I was writing about places thinking of myself as sort of like, you know, the Ralph Waldo Emerson 'invisible eyeball' thing?"
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Pandemic milestone: Summit Music plays 100 concerts for 15 different senior communities –
It’s been just over a year since the pandemic pushed Summit Music’s concerts for seniors outdoors. Since April 2020, Violinist Natalie VanBurkleo-Carbonara, who is founder and director of Summit Music, and other musicians have been performing outside for seniors.
VanBurkleo-Carbonara reported last week that the organization reached the 100-concert milestone. “During a year when most arts organizations shut down performances, it feels really special that this was created, continued through the winter months and reached 100 concerts. We are now doing concerts at 15 different senior communities on a regular basis and have started to branch out to reach communities outside of the metro area as well.”
VanBurkleo-Carbonara said 21 professional musicians have been a part of the concerts. The Twin Cities Musicians Union helped to get funding from the national organization Music Performance Trust Fund (MPTF), which sponsored three of the professional musicians who perform regularly with Summit Music, she said.
In a Pioneer Press story in mid-November when VanBurkleo-Carbonara played patriotic music outdoors for St. Paul nursing home residents , she said: "We have witnessed it all: senior residents crying on balconies those first several weeks in April and May, dancing on balconies with spouses, residents waving flags, moving to the music, yelling bravo, shouting from balconies about being quarantined for two weeks, yelling down about loved ones who have passed or anniversaries being celebrated."
“Some of the senior communities that we serve are now inviting musicians to come inside to perform,” said VanBurkleo-Carbonara. “Moving forward, we will offer our indoor more formal concerts again and also continue the Parking Lot Concerts for Seniors.”
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