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.
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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…
I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You – Joe Pass
10 October 2018
Sometimes it’s all about mood setting – you want the music to whisk you away to a certain time and place by creating an environment you can get lost in. What I love about this process though – is that it’s still totally subjective – the place I go to when I listen to this track is going to be way different than yours – I suspect ;-)…
August – Vincent Lima
9 October 2018
I started this playlist with the simple idea that if you’re experiencing grief, then listening to sad music is actually a good thing – we even wrote an article about it here. Over the last year or so the playlist has covered many different types of grief, or at least, reasons for grief – but there’s something about the experience of losing a loved one – particularly if it was unexpected or they were very young – that drives a particularly deep and powerful type of grief…
Matt Jenko – Music to Curator Interview
3 October 2018
My name is Matt Jenko, and I live in the UK. I spend my time illustrating, animating, composing and producing music for my project Ellipsis, and I’m the first (and second!) artist to release a track through Music to…
Lonely Too – Evan Lesniak
2 October 2018
Unrequited love…
Is there anything so ruinous to the soul?
What do you do with all that emotion – all that raw feeling that you know – deep down – will never be reciprocated? Maybe you cling to hope – hope that one day they’ll see you – that they’ll learn to love you- that you’ll ultimately be together,…