Category: Harmony

And then, as soon as I got the brilliant idea for seven words, my laptop crashed. I lost two of those perfect columns on the seven perfect words. At first it was like a punch in the stomach, but over time I realized I was okay with not posting the lost columns. OKAY? Damn, I was more than OK.

This is because I realized that the first seven words were wrong.

Over the days, my perspective on the Seven Words changed and I realized that this is how life is. We are still deploying. Always evolving. Evolve forever into the new me we want to be. And that’s exactly how it should be. As soon as we think we understand, our seven words change.

Isn’t that cool? I would hate to be done figuring things out. Although it can be tempting at times, especially on days when your laptop is crashing. Thank goodness it is not often.

I still love words, and realizing that there is no such thing as a magical seven only opens the door to more exploration. I will start now.

Originally, I planned to write about balance. It’s a big word. Balance is a duality that runs through nature throughout life. It brings peace and stability. Yin and yang. Balance is equality between the two. What could be better?

I wasn’t sure, but the cosmos put the idea of ​​harmony in my path. If the balance between two things is good, the harmony could be even better.

Balance binds us together. Harmony opens the equation. It gives us alternatives. A three-strand string is stronger than a two-part string, just as the three-part harmony, when done right, often outperforms the two-part version.

A set of two points can easily switch. Three point is stable and stable.

Three is a force seen in nature and in the world. Good things come in threes. Past, present and future sum up time better than it does today. We say ABCs, not ABs. There are three primary colors: red, yellow and blue, from which all other hues are created.

Earth is the third planet after the sun. There are three Olympic medals: bronze, silver and gold. First, middle and last. Small, medium and large. Solid, liquid and gas. Land, sea and air. Breakfast, lunch and dinner (snacks would only add to the harmony.)

Me, me and me. Rock Paper Scissors. Mind, body and spirit. The three amigos, the musketeers, the accomplices, the Charlie’s Angels, the blind mice, the little pigs, the French hens, the bears of Goldilocks.

Balance is two factors, working in tandem. The best balance one can do is balance. Harmony is more. It takes us beyond balance to stability. Harmony is literally music to our ears.

Balance is settling things between two people. Harmony is a deeper cooperation between the group. There is a balance between you and me. Harmony makes us all a part of the whole.

The balance in life is good; it is searched. Harmony makes the balance complete. And, like a braided cord, harmony makes us all stronger.

When you just focus on the melody, that’s all you hear. When you broaden your focus to include multiple notes and chords, you get a broader perspective – a perspective that goes beyond the note you play and beyond you to the innate harmony that exists in our world, in the world. nature. The harmony that exists between all of us.

And that is music to the ears.

Jill Pertler is an award-winning columnist, published playwright and author.

A few weeks ago, I started to write a series of seven words that I believe could help each of us on our way forward, no matter which direction it might take. Seven words which, once adopted, could help us in times of joy as in difficult times. Seven words to prepare us for the future.

It was perfection.

And then, as soon as I got the brilliant idea for seven words, my laptop crashed. I lost two of those perfect columns on the seven perfect words. At first it was like a punch in the stomach, but over time I realized I was okay with not posting the lost columns. OK? Damn, I was more than fine.

This is because I realized that the first seven words were wrong.

Over the days, my perspective on the Seven Words changed and I realized that this is the way life is. We are still deploying. Always evolving. Evolve forever into the new me we want to be. And that’s exactly how it should be. As soon as we think we understand, our seven words change.

Isn’t that cool? I would hate to be done figuring things out. Although it can be tempting at times, especially on days when your laptop is crashing. (Thank goodness it’s not often.)

I still love words, and realizing that there is no such thing as a magical seven only opens the door to more exploration. I will start now.

Originally, I planned to write about balance. It’s a big word. Balance is a duality that runs through nature throughout life. It brings peace and stability. Yin and yang. Balance is equality between the two. What could be better?

I wasn’t sure, but the cosmos put the idea of ​​harmony in my path. If the balance between two things is good, the harmony could be even better.

Balance binds us together. Harmony opens the equation. It gives us alternatives. A three-strand string is stronger than a two-part string, just as the three-part harmony, when done right, often outperforms the two-part version.

A set of two points can easily switch. Three point is stable and stable.

Three is a force seen in nature and in the world. Good things come in threes. Past, present and future sum up time better than it does today. We say ABCs, not ABs. There are three primary colors: red, yellow and blue, from which all other hues are created.

Earth is the third planet after the sun. There are three Olympic medals: bronze, silver and gold. First, middle and last. Small, medium and large. Solid, liquid and gas. Land, sea and air. Breakfast, lunch and dinner (snacks would only add to the harmony.)

Me, me and me. Rock Paper Scissors. Mind, body and spirit. The three amigos, the musketeers, the accomplices, the Charlie’s Angels, the blind mice, the little pigs, the French hens, the bears of Goldilocks.

Balance is two factors, working in tandem. The best balance one can do is balance. Harmony is more. It takes us beyond balance to stability. Harmony is literally music to our ears.

Balance is settling things between two people. Harmony is a deeper cooperation between the group. There is a balance between you and me. Harmony makes us all a part of the whole.

The balance in life is good; it is searched. Harmony makes the balance complete. And, like a braided cord, harmony makes us all stronger.

When you just focus on the melody, that’s all you hear. When you broaden your focus to include multiple notes and chords, you get a broader perspective – a perspective that goes beyond the note you play and beyond you to the innate harmony that exists in our world, in the world. nature. The harmony that exists between all of us.

And that is music to the ears.

– Pertler is an award-winning union columnist, published playwright and author. Don’t miss a slice; follow the Slices of Life page on Facebook.

It was perfection.

And then, as soon as I got the brilliant idea for seven words, my laptop crashed. I lost two of those perfect columns on the seven perfect words. At first it felt like a punch in the stomach, but over time I realized I was okay with not posting the lost columns. OKAY? Damn, I was more than OK.

This is because I realized that the first seven words were wrong.

Over the days, my perspective on the Seven Words changed and I realized that this is how life is. We are still deploying. Always evolving. Evolve forever into the new me we want to be. And that’s exactly how it should be. As soon as we think we understand, our seven words change.

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Isn’t that cool? I would hate to be done figuring things out. Although it can be tempting at times, especially on days when your laptop is crashing. (Thank goodness it’s not often.)

I still love words and realizing that there aren’t seven magical ones only opens the door to more exploration. I will start now.

Originally, I planned to write about balance. It’s a big word. Balance is a duality that runs through nature throughout life. It brings peace and stability. Yin and yang. Balance is equality between the two. What could be better?

I wasn’t sure, but the cosmos put the idea of ​​harmony in my path. If the balance between two things is good, the harmony could be even better.

Balance binds us together. Harmony opens the equation. It gives us alternatives. A three-strand string is stronger than a two-part string, just as the three-part harmony, when done right, often outperforms the two-part version.

A set of two points can easily switch. Three points are stable and stable.

Three is a force that we see in nature and in the world. Good things come in threes. Past, present and future sum up time better than it does today. We say ABCs, not ABs. There are three primary colors: red, yellow and blue, from which all other hues are created.

Earth is the third planet after the sun. There are three Olympic medals: bronze, silver and gold. First, middle and last. Small, medium and large. Solid, liquid and gas. Land, sea and air. Breakfast, lunch and dinner (snacks would only add to the harmony.)

Me, me and me. Rock Paper Scissors. Mind, body and spirit. The three amigos, the musketeers, the accomplices, the Charlie’s Angels, the blind mice, the little pigs, the French hens, the bears of Goldilocks.

Balance is two factors, working in tandem. The best balance one can do is balance. Harmony is more. It takes us beyond balance to stability. Harmony is literally music to our ears.

The balance is worked out between two people. Harmony is a deeper cooperation between the group. There is a balance between you and me. Harmony makes us all a part of the whole.

The balance in life is good; it is searched. Harmony makes the balance complete. And, like a braided cord, harmony makes us all stronger.

When you just focus on the melody, that’s all you hear. When you broaden your focus to include multiple notes and chords, you get a broader perspective – a perspective that goes beyond the note you play and beyond you to the innate harmony that exists in our world, in the world. nature. The harmony that exists between all of us.

And it’s music to the ears.

Jill Pertler is an award-winning union columnist, published playwright and author. Don’t miss a slice; follow the Slices of Life page on Facebook.

With roots in jazz, folk and Indian classical music, guitarist Todd Mosby is eclectic to say the least. In the mid-90s he needed an ax that could accommodate the techniques and compositional ideas he had drawn from his Eastern and Western influences.

As a result, he co-designed a unique hybrid instrument which he calls the Imrat Guitar, which combines elements of the guitar and Indian instruments such as the sitar and rudra veena.

We can hear it on Mosby’s latest album, Aerial views, a set of soft-hued Impressionist jazz compositions featuring prominent players like bassist Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel) and drummer Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney).

The Imrat Guitar is named after Mosby’s longtime Indian music teacher, famed master Ustad Imrat Khan, who taught the sitar to George Harrison and Brian Jones in the 1960s and then resided in Mosby’s hometown of St. Louis, Missouri.

“I studied with Imrat for about four years, starting with regular acoustic guitar,” Mosby says. “But I got to a point where I needed to access deeper levels of Indian music. Fortunately, I knew a luthier, Kim Schwartz, who already had a design a little up to what I had in mind. So the three of us started making plans for a personal instrument that I could use as a jazz musician. “

Mosby’s Imrat electric guitar resembles a harp in many ways. The fingerboard has five main playing strings plus three chikari (rhythmic drone) strings. The harp above the fingerboard consists of 12 sympathetic strings. All strings are suspended from one of two sitar-style jivari bridges which help create a buzzing and resonating tone similar to a sitar.

The fingerboard is scalloped and features jumbo frets, allowing spectacular bends of the microtonal strings, essential to the interpretation of Indian classical music. But you can also play chords, which are necessary for most forms of Western music, such as jazz.

“Western music has taken harmony to the highest level with Schoenberg and other classical composers,” says Mosby. “And in India, they ended up taking the melody to the absolute highest level. With the Imrat guitar, I can integrate these two beautiful traditions into my playing. “

New research has cemented the nearly unmatched singing skills of birds, as it has discovered that cockatiels are able to spontaneously join human hissing with near-perfect synchronicity. Besides being more than adorable, research shows that these birds are truly masters of their singing voices, able to change pitch and rhythm to effectively riffle with an entirely different species.

Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the study tested three hand-raised cockatiels to see if these birds could sing “in unison” with a person whistling a melody, or at least synchronize their song in response. . Each of the three birds successfully learned to sing a walking sound as the researchers whistled a melody similar to the “Mickey Mouse Club Walk”.

This particular song is made up of two parts, each made up of 11 notes but separated by a pause. While all of the birds learned the song, only two of them spontaneously began to sing in unison with the whistle (as seen in the phenomenal recording below).

The next step used the help of a play loop, to see if changing the length of time between worms changed the pace with which the cockatiels sang. Effectively, the birds were able to adapt their song to stay in sync with the changes in pause length, pitch, and tempo, allowing them to follow what they surely thought was a banger, judging by their enthusiasm.

“I didn’t give the birds any treats to reward them for singing,” study author Yoshimasa Seki, from the psychology department at Aichi University in Japan, told Vice. “They were joining the melody for their own enjoyment and were very happy to do so.”

Seki believes the research is the first published example (to their knowledge) of a non-human animal singing to human music and synchronizing with its changing characteristics. Beyond being a great excuse to dive deep into singing cockatiel videos (some even sing opera), you might be wondering what the academic value of this information is, but Seki believes that learning Singing behavior in non-human animals could provide information on the historical uses of singing in humans.

“Singing was once a form of communication for humans,” they said. “At one point we started singing more for fun, but by studying these distant ancestors we can improve coordination and group work, even among us humans. “

Interestingly, a similar approach hopes to bring the science of translation closer to communicating with dolphins, but vice versa. The research is focused on the idea that whistled human tongues might share fundamental attributes with dolphin signals, so looking at the two side by side, we might one day crack the cetacean code.

[H/T: Vice]

(The Magazine Plus Editorial): – Tampa, Florida September 8, 2021 (Issuewire.com) – Hailing from Detroit via Tampa, Florida, Harmony Devoe’s compilation of melodies, metaphorical puns and poetic lyricism announced it as one of the East Coast’s biggest rising R&B stars. Her latest single, “When U Fall Outta Luv”, shows precisely why she is lyricism in motion.

Released on all digital platforms on 9/10/2021, with pre-orders through iTunes on 8/21/2021, this track was produced by JetBlakBrown and features an appearance by JaKeith. The ballad itself is about the real, raw situations that occur in the home, focusing on the torturous emotional fallout of a broken relationship, while also putting up with it during the most devastating pandemic of our generation.

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As Harmony’s usual captivating vocal performances and intricate songwriting shine through, JaKeith delivers her soft voice that blows up the walls of every note, bringing a masculine perspective to the storyline, to create a stunning duet performance that s’ flows perfectly throughout.

For media inquiries, including interviews and anything press related, please send an email [email protected]. Also visit www.harmonydevoe.com for all things Harmony Devoe.

The New Canaan Library once again welcomes musician, composer and educator Michael-Louis Smith, presenting a three-part series exploring the many fascinating elements of harmony. The live webinar will take place Tuesday evenings, September 7, 14 and 21 at 7 p.m. EST. Zoom login information will be provided when registering at newcanaanlibrary.org.
The relaxed and educational workshop series is suitable for musicians and non-musicians alike and will cover elements of harmony, from its finished parts to an exploration of chord progressions in familiar songs.
Part 1 – September 7 – Building Basic Chords: Participants will first learn about intervals, which are the basic building blocks of triads (chords made up of three notes).
Part II – September 14 – Identifying chord / scale relationships: participants will learn how to build a major scale, and more.
Part III – September 21 – Harmonizing a melody: participants will learn how a melody corresponds to its harmonic counterpoint by analyzing a well-known piece of music.
Musician, composer and educator Michael-Louis Smith received his Masters of Music from the Purchase College Conservatory of Music and has more than two decades of experience arranging, performing and recording music.
In 2001, he started giving home music lessons to students of all ages, from 3 to 70 years old. Michael, his wife Christina and their five year old son Braven moved to New Canaan in 2014. Since joining the community he has presented concerts and music theory workshops at the library, his band has donated her talents to help the League of Young Women. of New Canaan raises money for charity and has performed and helped develop a jazz concert series at the Carriage Barn Arts Center in Waveny Park.

As “The Night House” unfolds and viewers watch the widow of a suicide victim slowly unveil her dark past, it’s the chilling, atmospheric music from composer Ben Lovett that keeps us going – a score which began long before director David Bruckner started filming on a lake in upstate New York.

Lovett and Bruckner are former college buddies at the University of Georgia, and as soon as they finished working on “The Ritual” in 2017, Bruckner sent in a script that immediately inspired the composer.

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“The Night House” is no ordinary horror film. The film’s central character, Beth (Rebecca Hall) has visions that force her to delve into her late husband’s eerie obsessions, which involve mirror images, inverted architectural floor plans, relationships with women who look like him, etc.

“So you start to think about melody inversions and negative space, and the idea of ​​focusing on the sound between the notes instead of just the notes themselves,” Lovett explains. “There was so much in the script, it was just an interesting thing to explore, musically.”

Lovett began sending music to Bruckner while filming “Night House,” and eventually visited the set near Syracuse, NY, which served as further inspiration. “The idea that the water of the lake is this cloudy and unstable presence, then constantly agitated by external forces, which seemed to reflect this state of anxiety in which the character is constantly…. Even when a lake looks calm, it never quite is.

He translated this into an eerie soundscape that was part acoustic musicians, part synthesized sound. “Music was modulating with its various states of manic anxiety,” Lovett says, “and that led to synthesizers, but also to taking acoustic instruments and taking them apart and putting them through things that could transform them. in unrecognizable sounds. “

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So while much of the score for “Night House” is textual rather than melodic, it is also partially rooted in a song that reappears throughout the film. Richard and Linda Thompson’s 1974 “Calvary Cross” first appears in the couple’s wedding video, then returns, discordantly, throughout the film.

Lovett took his three chords and converted them through a concept in music theory called “negative harmony” into “a phantom version” of the original. “This music defined her marriage, and the loss upset and reversed it in a darker context,” he says.

While many of the sounds were created by Lovett in his studio in 2019, prior to the film’s Sundance debut in 2020, he employed a 35-piece string orchestra and quirky percussion sounds from LA’s top percussionist, MB Gordy. . Seventy of the film’s 108 minutes are counted, and Lovett’s description of the film’s opening as “a cloud of dissonance” is apt.

Upcoming for the composer are “The Old Ways” (next week on Netflix), also a horror film but starring traditional Mexican folk instruments, and “Broadcast Signal Intrusion,” a 1970s-style conspiracy thriller. .

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