Andrew
The first visual memory I have is that of the white upright piano in Singapore, Hell and the Dark Forces lived at the bottom, Heaven and the Angels at the top, they would play battles through my fingers and I was hooked.
As a psychology graduate I studied how sound affects human performance.
As a musician I compose instrumental music that stimulates your brain but doesn't mess with your language centers, leaving you free to write creatively without distraction.
As a curator I research how music can improve your life and create flow - I can tell you what music to listen to when studying for a test and why listening to sad music can make you feel better.
As a creator / contributor at musicto I believe that music can make the world better.
What I'm doing nowPlaylists
Friday Morning – Khruangbin
20 November 2018
I have the best job in the world! 😉 Not only do I get to curate two amazing lists – this essay writing list and Music to Grieve to, but if you didn’t know – I get to listen to every track published on musicto.com each week. Yes – it’s a tough gig – listening to sometimes over 30 hand selected tracks and reading their accompanying write ups…
Papillon. Oiseau – Brique a Braq
13 November 2018
This is the third track from multi-instrumentalist Derek Mount’s Brique a Braq project that has made it onto a Music to Playlist. The first two tracks: Raplapla and Le 4 Novembre were both featured on the Music to Love Piano list and if you dig this piece, I highly recommend you check them out…
Souvenir – the Depth and the Whisper
13 November 2018
While this playlist covers all kinds of behavior that can lead to grief, without doubt the most predominant theme addressed is that of loss: loss of a relationship, loss of a loved one, loss of anything that has a deep emotional connection to a person. And while everybody’s experience of loss is different, there are some fundamental desires that people dealing with loss seem to share:…
Joshua Tree in the Headphones – Deb Talan
7 November 2018
It’s a blessing to be able to look back at the bad times – particularly the really bad times – tragically there are too many who didn’t make it through to create memories…
Caledonia – Dougie MacLean
31 October 2018
Yes I’m Scottish and I can romanticize Scotland – (along with a crazy amount of Outlander fans!) – but this track’s about more than that – to me it’s about the idea of home and the strange relationship we often have with it…
Twilight – RelaxingVibe
30 October 2018
Alright – time to get down with some classic ambient, chill out, new age, relaxing music to write to. Looking for a simple sonic groove that delivers the tranquility of the sunset yet with enough action and interest that it can hold you and take you along for the ride – check out this track from the rather talented Frank Iengo…
Unknown – Kutiman
22 October 2018
So this week’s track might not work for everybody but good god does it work for me! There’s an expression in the start up world called “Dogfooding,” in essence it means to use your own product and I’m a big believer. In fact – most of what you see at musicto.com and its surrounding digital footprint was built while listening to the essay writing playlist.
Hypomania – Video Compact
22 October 2018
“You always complain I wanna stay on top,
looking back, I might have stayed a while
too long…”
It’s the pause between “stayed a while” and “too long” that turns this track into a beautifully written and smartly delivered insight to the agony of loving a broken person.
Lyris Greene – Music to Curator Interview
17 October 2018
My name is Lyris Greene aka DJ Lyris. I’m originally from Nashville, TN and I’m a dj/vibe curator in Atlanta, GA.
2/ Is This Something You Always Wanted To Do? What Do You Enjoy About It?
Yes, music curation is actually something I’ve been doing since I was younger…
Find Me Far Away – Jon Meyer
17 October 2018
Sometimes you just get lucky – I’ve been running a backlog a few months deep and was about to start sorting through the hundreds of track subs for the essay list and somehow found myself listening to this track from Jon Meyer. There’s no rhyme or reason as to why it was the first one I listened to today but damn I’m glad I did…
Everybody Hurts – The Corrs
16 October 2018
What can you say about a classic – even harder how do you cover it and interpret it in a way that respects the original but also adds a different perspective – a different flavor? Well – The Corrs have taken care of the second part of that question – I’ll try to answer the first…
Paul Sims – Music to Curator Interview
10 October 2018
Music to Shake a Hoof, came from a friends comment ‘I’d shake a hoof to that’ I’d heard it said before but in this context it was instantly recognisable as meaning to dance and that is what the list is all about, looking for new dance music, doesn’t matter what genre, It’s just got to have a groove to make you shake that hoof…