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Eurovision 2021 live musicology blog

Eurovision 2021 live musicology blog

by Joe Bennett | May 22, 2021 | berklee, Eurovision, Forensic Musicology, music production, musicology, Popular Music, Songwriting

[update: the next day] So, the predictions were mostly reasonably close, although I missed Switzerland completely. Italy won (I predicted 4th), I got France right at 2nd place, and Iceland came 4th (predicted as 3rd). My predicted winner (Malta) actually came in at...
Anatomy of the hit: Ariana Grande’s ‘7 rings’

Anatomy of the hit: Ariana Grande’s ‘7 rings’

by Joe Bennett | Apr 19, 2019 | Articles, music production, Popular Music, Songwriting, tidal

As a music theory geek, I love to get inside songs and figure out why we like them. There’s something beautiful about the ability of a mainstream hit to bring people together. And when the songwriter and singer is as extraordinary a talent as Ariana Grande, we can be...

Berklee Indian Ensemble in #360 video

by Joe Bennett | Jan 15, 2019 | berklee, music production

Sometimes music just speaks for itself. Listen with headphones. For best results, use a 360 headset or phone with Google Cardboard (ambisonic mix will change as you turn your head toward band...

Optimal distinctiveness and the songwriting singer #arp

by Joe Bennett | Sep 4, 2018 | arp, Education, music production, Research, Songwriting

Davey will be discussing songwriter identity in the context of optimal distinctiveness theory, and uses this to frame some popular music within the known teen phenomenon of ‘I loved [that band] before they were famous’. He uses the famous example of iMacs...

Microrhythms and Microsounds in African-American Popular Music

by Joe Bennett | Sep 4, 2018 | arp, IASPM, music production, Popular Music, Research

I always love to hear Anne speak. Alas, I live-blogged her entire hour-long keynote today, complete with examples, and due to a horrible WordPress browser fail (including no success with autosave reversions) I lost all the text and examples! So to recreate it from...

Meaning in vocal timbre #arp

by Joe Bennett | Sep 4, 2018 | arp, music production, Popular Music, Research

  The (Dis) Embodied Voice: hearing meaning in vocal timbre Simon Zagorski-Thomas (London College of Music, UWL) Keywords: Vocal timbre, ecological perception, embodied cognition, sonic cartoons ABSTRACT: It can be argued that since the persona of the performer...
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