Category Archives: Music

What Goes on in Your Head During Creative Musical Improvisation? Part 2

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Kevin Murnane

This is the second of a two-part article about what goes on in your head when you’re improvising music. In the first part we looked at what’s happening in the brain during creative musical improvisation. In this part we’ll take a speculative look at … Continue reading →

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What Goes on in Your Head During Creative Musical Improvisation? Part 1

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Kevin Murnane

This is the first of a two-part article about goes on in your head when you’re improvising music. In this part we’ll look at what’s happening in the brain during creative musical improvisation. In the second part we’ll look at the conscious … Continue reading →

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Pink Floyd, NASA and the Dark Side of the Moon

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Kevin Murnane

Almost everyone has heard it but almost no one has seen it. Now you can do both. Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon in 1973. The album has since been re-released in a variety of formats, has sold … Continue reading →

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Song Structure, Foo Fighters, and Parametric Monkey

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Kevin Murnane

I produce music under the name Parametric Monkey and a number of my tracks are structured so that the listener is taken to a different place at the end of the track than they were at the beginning. I often do … Continue reading →

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Changing Musical Tastes

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Kevin Murnane

Paraphrasing the philosopher Immanuel Kant, good data without a good infographic is blind, a good infographic without good data is empty. The Music Timeline is a multi-layered, interactive infographic developed by Research at Google that is beautifully designed to illustrate the popularity of … Continue reading →

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What Music Looks Like

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Kevin Murnane

This one is awesome. Cymatics is field of endeavor that explores capturing sound in a physical medium. As an area of exploration cymatics appears to be mainly about science and technology, although some see it as an opportunity to engage in mystical … Continue reading →

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Make a Dragon Wanna Retire

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Kevin Murnane

Like that big band funk? Check out Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars. When I first put this post in the que for The Info Monkey, Uptown Funk was just another track among many.  While the post was … Continue reading →

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