The hardest part of creating music is needing to meet a creative deadline and not being able to switch on the creativity at all! It can be quite frustrating. I sit there and will it to happen! So I then go back to the drawing board, which usually has nothing on it at all! If […]
Music to us is more than a song, deeper than a melody, tastier than any chord or groove.. it’s a gift.? We’re grateful to be given Music to Help, Encourage, Heal & to tell our stories thus far. The world without music would be a world without Life. Everybody has a bit of music in […]
“To me, music has been the shaping force in my life for better or worse. I’m so deep I can’t get out. Buying records and singing songs. It’s been this way for as long as I can remember. These things called songs that, echo our world, shape our understanding and signpost our experience are so […]
Why is music important? Adam: Music inspires people, it inspires me? Louis: It is a natural means for my creative output? Levi: It helps create experiences for me How does music affect you and the world around you?? ? Louis: Music is pretty much all I do. I actually see the world in terms of […]
Music transports us, relocates us and has the ability to redefine us. As a teenager, I remember music doing that to me significantly- I remember stealing a Nirvana tape, putting on my walkman, riding my BMX around and being alerted to the idea that music could let you feel a wide range of emotions. I […]
Taylor Hanson is a singer, song writer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and co-owner of 3CG Records. His band Hanson celebrates their 20 year anniversary this year. We spoke to Taylor to find out what music means to him. Q: This year marks the 20th anniversary of Hanson. There have been some well-documented high points and low points […]
I was driving along in my car today. With music blaring, I found myself away from everywhere I didn’t wish to be. Moments went by and before I could really appreciate where the song had taken me, I found myself in the middle of an intersection with cars tooting their horns in an effort to […]
I never knew that being a four year old put in a recorder class music would be the start of such a wonderful/tough/fun/interesting journey! From around the age of eight or nine I realised that every sound around me was literally a musical note to me, from people talking to phones ringing to hearing songs […]
Music is important because like all the arts, it evokes emotion within us. Whether it’s the power of Rage Against the Machine making adrenaline surge through you, or the theme to the Exorcist making you feel on edge. It becomes the soundtrack to people’s lives and the theme playing under their memories. It facilitates communication […]
Percussion…Strings…Winds…Words. Anyone who has seen Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ will know exactly what I am talking about. This movie was the start of my love with music. I was six years old and I must’ve rented that movie from my local video store a hundred times. I don’t know why we never actually bought it, […]