Tantacrul

In this video, we discuss the use of transitions in music and look at a few examples along the way, some of them good, some abysmal.

In this video, 'How to Cover it Badly', I look at various ways that ‘Hallelujah’ is covered by taking a look at Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Ed Sheeran, Bono and a range of other musicians from YouTube, Pop Idol and The Voice. I explain various aspects of the song by investigating its lyrics and the underlying structure that makes it tick! Along the way, I get a bit mean too!

This is a video about transitions that composers use in musical composition. I look at a few examples that were created to bridge the gap between songs (Amon Tobin) and movements (Beethoven). At the end, I give a detailed account of music I wrote for a game called Thrust 30, which includes a fairly complicated transition.

This video takes a brief look at the subject of Sonification (AKA Parameter mapping or Audification) and how it is used for better or worse by scientists and musicians around the world. Some people (including those at NASA and CERN) have created sonifications for Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Space. Others have looked inwards, focussing on things like social causes and sonifications of well known events. Some of it is good. Some of it is awful!

In this video I explore the deficiencies of products claiming to help teach young babies about music by focusing on popular musical toys and youtube channels. Along the way I make reference to two brain development studies and one interesting experiment by the well known YouTuber, Rick Beato.

In this video, I describe a common problem with the way guitarists cover popular songs by using open chords far too regularly. The trouble with open chords is that they often ignore important melodic and harmonic features. Hence, zombie chords. So dull they sound dead. It's spooooooooky!