music

How Playing An Instrument Benefits Your Brain

How Playing An Instrument Benefits Your Brain

VIA “educateinspirechange.org” When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What’s going on? This video explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive […]

A Symphony For Cats!

A Symphony For Cats!

VIA “theatlantic.com” by Nicholas St. Fleur Have you ever tried grooving with your cat to some song, only to have your feline friend shake you off? Perhaps your pet is apathetic about music. Typical. But new research shows that cats do enjoy music; just not the stuff humans tend to pick. A team of psychologists […]

Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata

Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata

Dark days won’t stay See through to a New way “I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed to me impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.” Heiligenstadt Testament. 1828. Beethoven

Staying in on a Friday night never felt so right (video)

Staying in on a Friday night never felt so right (video)

It’s Friday…. you aint got s@^* to do! It’s 5PM, you’re bracing to battle the commute home and the feeling hits you… all you want to do is properly spruce your bed-heaven and watch Netflix until death do you part. Damn. It’s one of those nights where no real plans have been made so spending the night at weak bar and waking […]

Beyonce on passion, direction and career (video)

Beyonce on passion, direction and career (video)

“We all are stars, we just have to figure out what we should be doing in life” – Beyoncé Beyoncé Knowles is the embodiment of female possibility in the 21st century. Her drive and free-spirit serves as an inspiration to any girl, woman or individual who is feeling like their hard work isn’t quite getting them to their […]