On the First Beat

Within a period of seven years the beats company has skyrocketed to the top of the headphone industry surpassing popular brands such as Bose and Monster in the market. Now the brand formerly owned by Monster controls seventy percent of the headphone market and currently has a net worth of 3.2 billion dollars. The company has partnered with Apple and continues to have success in the big business. A great amount of their success can be related to their advertisement campaign. The enterprises…

her first appearance in the first novel in the series Manhattan Is My Beat that was published in 1988. When we are first introduced to Rune, she is an aspiring filmmaker that just moved to New York City. Rune spends most of her time watching movies but often finds herself embroiled in a range of crime and murder mysteries. Curious and driven by her love for film making her investigations with her camera puts her in danger while having the potential to make her career. Manhattan Is My Beat the…

someone who oversees the recording of a performer’s music. A music producer is basically also a beat maker and sees if the music sounds good. Don’t you think that it is crazy how music speaks for people’s moods and their lifestyle? Music is a lot of things for many people. For example it can be a way to zone out or express how you feel. There are two types of music producers that I am interested in. The first one is music producer and the second is Hip Hop producer. In many cases, you do not…

a very gentle, soft touch on her violin. Unlike the first part, the second part of Jog have more of a conjunct descending melodic movement. The texture of the violin is also a lot smoother and harmonized rather than the sitar. Towards the end of the second part of the song, the melody changes from conjunct movement to a more disjunct movement. The sound the violin makes is also sharper and more choppy towards the end. Until the outro of the first part, again, being used in the second part.…

become closer to both of these two styles. First, when I listen to a folk song, I feel like listening a story. A story from long ago, with a group of people. The "group" could be as particular as a family, or a nation. Then, when I listen to a pop song, I feel more emotion in it than the history. My folk song is “Czechoslovakia Hey Ho, Hey Ho” one flat, started with D5 and ended with D4, this is a D minor scale song. This song have 6 phases, and I marked the first and third one as “A”, the…

The song begins with a low and dreary beat and guitar strumming. The slow, somewhat sad tune casts an image, in my mind, of a man strolling from a bar after having a bad day, perhaps after being laid off by his boss. It has a slow, but steady pace that is supported by the guitar and low drum beats. At around the 3 minute mark , the beat speeds up slightly, as if to suggest tribulations or a slight sign of hope and light amongst the gray tone that has been present for the majority of the song…

“The Photographer in the Beat-Hipster Idiom: Robert Frank's The Americans” , in which Cotkin carves out the connections between Robert Frank and the philosophies of the Beat movement artists, the most surprising statement appears quite at the beginning: Almost all theorists, says Cotkin, who have so far reviewed and analyzed Frank's work, have done so without paying closer attention to said link between the artists (21). They do mention Jack Kerouac, maybe even quote the Beat author in their…

settle upon a melody that works. Play your recording and listen to each note in your song. Use a "hunt and peck" technique on the piano when first learning to notate your ideas. Take an ear training course to develop your ear so that in the future, you can avoid the need to resort to a piano. Play chromatically by starting on middle C until you find the first note of your piece. Play the second note in your recording and then match its pitch on the piano. Write this pitch down in accordance with…

night.”(Ginsberg, Allen: Howl). ‘Beats’ are characterized as individuals who desire to instigate change and deeply believe in their convictions. After World War 2 ideas of nationalism and the fabrication of the American dream was produced to be marked to the masses, which encroached upon as well as went against the Beats concept of freedom, lifestyle and manner of existence within society. The Beats did not want to break the system, within which society existed upon,…

March 14 & 16 Assignment 1. As an experiment to understand the aesthetic of the Beats, choose a long passage in On the Road and a dozen lines from Allen Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California.” Compare the sound and pace of both passages. Describe the similarities you hear. What might account for these similarities? In which ways might Howl and On the Road celebrate life? A passage adapted from On the Road reads: “My first impression of Dean was of a young Gene Autry ---trim, thin-hipped,…