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  Introduction Although I could easily make this article about the most horrible songs ever written and how they get stuck in our heads, this is not what our topic is about today. In this article, we will discuss torture, its anatomy, and the role music can play in it. We will differentiate between different types of torture, how our senses can be used against us to cause us pain, the after-effects of torture, military uses of music in psychological operations, sonic technologies developed specifically for sieges and law enforcement applications, and how artists are speaking out against the use of their music in these operations. So strap yourself in and continue reading because you're in for ride. Pain and Perceptions of the Ear The human ear is defenseless. It's unable to keep sound out, so it must take in all it hears. Without earplugs, anti-noise headphones or other defensive technologies the ear is helpless to protect itself. One of the great advantages of using music as a...

  Listening to music is an extremely popular activity. Whether we favour classical or rock music, jazz or popular bands and soloists, we spend good money buying CDs, attending concerts and downloading music files to listen to our favourite pieces and artists. But why is the effect of music so significant if it consists of a mere sequence of sounds. <b>Important effect of music due to brain's in-built sensitivity?</b> Listening to music is one of the few activities that involves using the whole brain. But two parts of that organ -- the cerebellum and the subcortical nuclea -- seem to have a particularly important role. The first of these tracks musical beat. It also distinguishes familiar from unfamiliar music and plays a role in musically evoked emotions and in the formation and expression of musical taste. These discoveries are consistent with anatomical studies from the 1970s that found direct neural connections between the cerebellum and the hearing organ within the ...

  Do you feel unsatisfied with your ability to accurately express ideas in your songs? Wish you could effortlessly write songs that clearly convey your thoughts, feelings and emotions? The truth is, many musicians struggle with musical expression and experience a lot of frustration when they can't write songs the way they want them to sound. That said, you can seriously cut down the time it takes you to master musical expression and write great songs by avoiding a common mistake made by most songwriters: Overlooking or under-utilizing important songwriting elements. In this article, I am going to discuss one of the songwriting elements that is most frequently overlooked (often causing songs to sound dull and uninspiring). This important songwriting element is "Dynamics." WARNING: If you read the last sentence and thought to yourself: "Dynamics? I already know what that is... writing music loud and soft. Tell me something I don't know!"... You have already ma...

 One of the universal forms of entertainment is music. Today, people have many different ways to access the tunes they love. Ever growing in popularity is downloading music from the Internet. If you are uncertain how to do this, continue reading for some fabulous suggestions on how to get your favorite tunes today. A good tip to consider if you're looking to download music is to look on iTunes. chrisbitten  iTunes has a lot of popular music and it's very easy to just download a track and transfer it to your iPhone or iPod. You can usually get good deals when buying music on iTunes. Check out the legal free music from established music download sites. Many big online music retailers like iTunes, MP3.com, Amazon.com, and more have free music sections. You can legally download these free tracks from some artists that you like or some new ones that you would like to listen to for the first time. If you want to try out some more obscure artists, keep your eyes peeled for free music...

  Music is one of the few activities that involve the whole brain. It is intrinsic to all cultures and can have surprising benefits not only for learning language, improving memory and focusing attention, but also for physical coordination and development. Of course, music can be distracting if it's too loud or too jarring. But for the most part, exposure to many kinds of music has beneficial effects: 1- Effective therapy for pain Music can be helpful to those suffering from physical pain; studies have shown that people who listen to music that is soothing have requested less pain medication after surgery and that relaxation music can also help them manage chronic pain. 2- Reducing blood pressure By playing recordings of relaxing music every time, people with high blood pressure can train themselves to lower their blood pressure - and keep it low. According to research reported at the American Society of Hypertension meeting in New Orleans, listening to just 30 minutes of classical...

  Introduction: The Highest Art Auction in History Recently a Christie's art sale became the highest auction in history. The sale included works by Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat, among others and in total generated $495 million. The sale established 16 new world auction records, with nine works selling for more than $10m (£6.6m) and 23 for more than $5m (£3.2m). Christie's said the record breaking sales reflected "a new era in the art market". The top lot of Wednesday's sale was Pollock's drip painting Number 19, 1948, which fetched $58.4m (£38.3m) - nearly twice its pre-sale estimate. Lichtenstein's Woman with Flowered Hat sold for $56.1 million, while another Basquiat work, Dustheads (top of article), went for $48.8 million. All three works set the highest prices ever fetched for the artists at auction. Christie's described the $495,021,500 total - which included commissions - as "staggering". Only four of the 7...

  Music is passion Music is energy Music is joy Music is creativity Music is eternal Music is love Music is soul Music is life Music is one of the greatest creations of human kind in the course of history. It is creativity in a pure and undiluted form and format. Music plays a vital role in our daily life. It is a way of expressing our feelings and emotions. Music is a way to escape life, which gives us relief in pain and helps us to reduce the stress of the daily routine. It helps us to calm down, an even excites us in the moment of joy. Moreover, it enriches the mind and gives us self confidence. Music surrounds our lives at different moments of lives, whether we hear it on the radio, on television, from our car and home stereos. Different kinds of music are appropriate for different occasions. We come across it in the mellifluous tunes of a classical concert or in the devotional strains of a bhajan, the wedding band, or the reaper in the fields breaking into song to express the ...

  A growing number of people have discovered how music can help dissolve their daily tension, physical problems such as migraines and the emotional problems of anxiety and depression. Music and fitness share a common bond in that they both block out or redirect stress hormones, lower blood pressure, ease anxiety, energize and sooth us and improve our focus. When music and fitness merge, an even stronger bond is formed. We as fitness and healthcare professionals have the opportunity to use this music-fitness connection in our aquatic and group exercise classes and personal training and therapy sessions. This makes us all therapists of sorts, and the end result of a class or session is a total mind/body treatment. The healing power of music is part of the medicinal arsenal that aids us in returning to our fitness activities after an initial illness or injury. Music relaxes us, which causes the release of endorphins (the "feel good" hormones). These endorphins create a way to ma...

  Production music refers to music that is owned by production music libraries. Generally the music is composed specifically for use in Film, TV, Radio, Multimedia and Business. Since these libraries generally own all of the rights in the music they can licence it directly without the need to gain permission from composers or writers. It can therefore be licensed immediately with a clear cost to the end user. The advantage of a production music library is that it can cater to a wide range of musical styles and themes with many libraries holding ten of thousands of tracks and cuts.  chrisbitten Production music gives producers and directors a platform from which to choose audio that is suitable for their project or brief. Libraries often have tracks relevant to current musical genres, styles, charts and culture. Many libraries will hold music across the entire spectrum of music history and include Classical, Jazz, Blues, Rock n Roll, Dance and Reggae - amongst a host of contemp...