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Daniel Levitin is the Author of "This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession". He is a musician and neuroscientist and this post is him giving a talk about his research and book at Microsoft Research. One of his main premises from his research is that music may be more fundamental to humans than language.

This is a very riveting talk. I didn't come away with the idea that music might be more fundamental to humans than language, but that music is fundamental, as is language, and that each of us is a musical expert, if not expert performers!

I have continued thinking about this topic...Levitin also intimated that musical capacity is similar to language acquisition in that there is a window of time in which that capacity needs to be triggered in order for fluency in music to be attained. The window for language acquisition is birth to puberty. If your language capacity is not triggered within this time frame, you can't learn to speak as we understand speech. I wonder if this is really true of musical capacity...perhaps, but perhaps not in the way that it is of language. Of course they massive amounts of research have been applied to the question of language.

Modern music is in the midst of a revolution. Less than a generation ago, music was confined to well-defined genres aimed at pleasing radio stations, record companies, and those all-important key demographics. The music industry of yesterday was built in such a way that keeping these genres separate made it easier and more efficient to sell a product.

This is a cool article about the future of DJ's and how anyone can make a mix these days. Is it a good thing or bad thing?

Indaba Music.com provides musicians the opportunity to Remix Cover Music from Major Artist as well as add your own profile.

Indaba Music.com provides musicians the opportunity to Remix Cover Music from Major Artist as well as add your own profile.

I love playing around with browser based music creators. I recently found this one, and it's pretty great. It's all royalty free loops and effects, and it's easy and fun. I wouldn't use it for writing music or anything I would try to promote, but it's an easy tool to get some ideas going.

OK now! Your giving me too many cool distractions, I'll never get my work done at this pace.

Innovative music has always been inextricably linked to technology. The Pythagoreans set scales in accordance with their mathematical concepts of harmony in nature, Mozart wrote groundbreaking concertos centered around the newly invented piano, and The Beatles completely changed the face of popular music by pioneering almost every modern recording technique.

This is an awesome piece about the democratization of music and the advent of producing from a laptop and how that is changing the world of music.

Modernbests.com is a terrific website that allows musicians a direct opportunity to submit music for Jobs in the industry as well as provide the latest Sound Samples for Production to download into your studio and Legal Forms and Consultation.

Pro Music Apps.com is a great website for music production apps and virtual instruments that can be downloaded and used on a Tablet or iPhone as well as a PC. This site has a little be of everything including Promotional section for Artist profiles.

I have decided to share this, because of the impact that tiny desk concerts from NPR have made on today's music scene. Being able to share intimate performances in a digital space is incredible. I highly recommend perusing through their YouTube page and even subscribe on ITunes.

LOVE all of these guys. Great link !

Great music blog for keeping up with what is going on in the classical world--both performance, and music-gossip-wise.

I am familiar with Alex Ross's writings on music, but I wasn't aware of his blog...good to know!

Students from music, art, engineering and dance make up the ensemble. The director is a professor in the school of music and a composer. They collaborate on new works in an innovative manner and on works that have been traditionally overlooked. I really like the exploratory nature of this group.

Results from a research project measuring whether or not technology has had a positive impact on musicians.

Avid Pro Tools Production Software has been the industry standard for over 10 years while many other competitors keep the game interesting, the professional studios still prefer to work with Pro Tool music production files.

Avid Pro Tools Production Software has been the industry standard for over 10 years while many other competitors keep the game interesting, the professional studios still prefer to work with Pro Tool music production files.

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation that provides free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof. A lot music found on the Free Music Archive is released under Creative Commons licenses.

Lists the reasons and benefits behind using the Ipad and how to integrate it for use with choral music

The world's best-selling music notation software. Sibelius is the easy way to write, refine, hear, scan and print beautiful scores. This is incredibly helpful in the classroom for anything that relates to sheet music.

"Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes except iPhone, iPod touch and nano 6G). Floola Desktop is another freeware application to manage your local PC music library. Both are standalone applications that do not need installation and run underLinux (any GTK2 distro), Mac OS X (10.4 or newer!)" --I have used Floola to retrieve music files off of an old ipod that itunes would not allow me to use the music from. If anyone else has had this frustrating problem, Floola is your friend. It also allows you to use your ipod like an external hard drive and drag and drop files to and from it...no syncing necessary.

Joe Poleto is the founder of Blue Rose Music. Prior to joining Microsoft, Joe was Vice President of National Advertising Sales for HBO. Where Joe played an important role in the network launch and in growing revenues.

Musician Communities + Creative Commons ... Such a great listing

I knew about Soundcloud but not the others...this good to know.

A cool article I stumbled upon

There are orchestras being formed, mainly by students, to perform video game music, and they collaborate with professional orchestras i. Also, video game makers are turning to professional composers and musicians for musical accompaniment so that music for video games is becoming more symphonic. However, the performances with orchestras are not interactive, which seems to me to defeat the purpose.