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I Am The Upsetter: The Sonic Innovation of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
Jamaican record producer Lee "Scratch" Perry is widely celebrated as one of the most important creative figures to emerge in the late-20th century. In 'I Am The Upsetter: The Sonic Innovation of Lee "Scratch" Perry, producer David Katz, who is Perry's authorized biographer, draws on archive interviews to explore his incredible career, which began in the early 1960s and continued until August 2021, only ending when Perry died, aged 85.
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The singer has announced that he hates the band’s name, most of their songs, and the sound of his own voice.
Q: So, self-deprecation is part of his new image. A: Maybe. You could suggest that, now U2 are less relevant than in previous years, he is adopting a James Blunt-style self-awareness to remain in the public eye. A: Interesting. What’s your second theory? A: That he’s finally listened to a U2 album.
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The World of Rhythm Called Rituals - Book by Jayant Burde
When someone mentions rituals we usually think of religious rituals such as prayer, puja, marriage ceremonies, sermons and so on. However, if we introspect a little, we realize that we spend most of our life in performing rituals of one type or another. Most of our activities from morning till night are ritualistic. This book explains how rituals are closely connected with verse, music and dance. It asserts that like music and dance rituals belong to the world of rhythm. By ritual we mean any stylized behaviour that recurs. Rituals abound in all walks of life: social intercourse, military affairs, law and politics, education and so forth. In most rituals rhythm is manifest and loud. In a few rituals which have a slow tempo, some analysis is necessary to detect rhythmic patterns. The author beautifully portrays the types of rituals and the rhythms they generate from the babbling of a child to a band parade or the chanting of a mantra. He explains the initiation and completion of patterns that form the rhythm.
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David Elkington: The Ancient Language of Sacred Sound - "Reveals the connections between the Earth’s resonant frequencies, sacred sites, human consciousness, and the origins of religion" (alt: audio interview)
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Wellsaid - "Convert text to voice in real time"
'Deep Fake' Technology Used to Perfectly Re-Create a Radio Announcer's Voice (reuters.com)
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The Beatles were one of the most successful Psyops of all time
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The effect of music on the level of mental concentration and its temporal change
Concentration is one of the most important factor in determining the efficiency of learning. There has not been, however, much systematic research on controlling the level of concentration. We therefore examined the effect of an external factor, namely playing music, on the performance on a task that requires much attention. We compared three conditions: music that the subject likes, music that the subject is not familiar with, and silence. The result showed that listening to music that the subject likes do increase the performance level. Also, we discovered that there exist different temporal patterns in the change of performance. The result also indicated a relationship between the temporal pattern in concentration and the external factor.
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Talking drum is a drum from West Africa, whose pitch can mimic the tone and prosody of speech.
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Photos from the Organic Music Society by Don Cherry (1972) - Related: Docu on Cherry (1978)
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Franco Tamponi - Submarino (1973)
