Very interesting article in SPIN about 40 movie soundtracks that have changed the way music was thought by bands, especiallly by alternative bands, groups that could expand on a music heard in a movie without losing the interest of its demographic.
For instance, no doubts that the soundtrack of "Forbidden Planet" has led many youngsters to electronic music (it's actually interesting to notice this love of pure, raw, weird electronic sounds is actualy making a huge come back with the development of the Eurorack scenes and the availability of many electronic modules these days).
Spotify conducted a survey in the UK about what the people are listening when having a romantic moment. And it has some surprising finding and others that seem obvious....
Music can be many different things, and one of them for sure is: IT CAN HEAL. When feeling blue, music can lift you off and make you travel thru some of the pain. Music can indeed be many things...and some more.
The entire planet knows by now that Batman's next opus (The Dark Knight Rises) is about to be unleashed and already reviews of premieres are talking about standing ovations and delirious responses.
Totally fascinating endeavour from Dr Bob MacCallum, a bio informatician at the Imperial College of London. He had the wonderful desire to learn how music evolves and believe Darwin dictates music evolution as well: there's a process that select the strongest, even among music loops.
Now, guys, let's experiment something...Let's take a normal pop or rock radio station and listen to it a couple of minutes.
Ok, now, tune in to a classical music radio station....Amazing, isn't it ? When you listen to pop, and then to some classical music, it's like jumping from a cold water swimming pool to a warm one: or coming from a mono recording to a stereo recording. All the harmonies (missing a lot in rock music) , all the spectrum, all the spatialisation, all the arrangments: all that seems to have been erased and forgotten in many, many recordings nowadays.
One can sit down and procrastinate all day about the state of music and how he/she can't make a living from his/her passion anymore...And it's obvious and we all know it: for normal sized bands, touring, selling CDs and merchandising at gigs, providing extra content to the superfans, trying to get some synchro money going on and getting your rights from radio broadcasts are about what's left for the artists to get money from.
Today is dedicated to a pandemic disease that has already taken tens of millions of lives around the world, in every categories of people, gender and social origins, middle age people like children, heterosexuals like homosexuals, drug addicts or plain simple citizen: the disease is stil here and still cannot be cured.
Build in 1876 to host 500 classical music students, the Conservatoire de Bruxelles has today more than a 1000 students and welcome the world famous Concours Reine Elisabeth once a year.
