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
Threnody – Frozen Silence
20 February 2018
It’s been a pretty odd few days – my dog died, I flew to Scotland, my mum had surgery, I didn’t sleep and I’m pretty much all over the place – I had no track for this week and by chance this submission landed right in my lap.
Chances – Athlete
14 February 2018
Sometimes you just want to cry. Do you ever get that? Where for whatever reason you realize that your emotions are full to the brim and you think you’re about to burst? When I’m in that space it’s this track I listen to – actually – it’s this track that I watch.
While the idea behind the playlist is that sad music can make you feel better – when I want to cry, I don’t go looking for sad things – I go looking for beauty. I am way more likely to well up when I see human kindness than I am over human despair.
Julia Maehner – Music to Curator Interview
14 February 2018
My name is Julia, and I live in Munich, Germany. I’m a trained journalist and I do a lot of things – play guitar and sing, make awesome salsa and bread, write about music and hiking. My job is working as a marketing specialist for .objective Software, an IT company based in Munich. They build software for the automotive sector – autonomous driving, car-sharing and all that – as well as smart cities.
Malagueña – Petri Kumela, Joonas Wideniu, Manuel Granados
14 February 2018
I’m fascinated by music’s transportive qualities – the ability to transport or cause transports. And while I often think of the emotional aspect – how music can move your emotional state – today i’m more intrigued by its ability to ‘virtually” transport you across the globe.
Ana Clara – Music to Curator Interview
8 February 2018
Hello, my name is Ana Clara and I live in Palmas, Tocantins, Brazil. I am a lawyer, a writer/blogger/copywriter and a songwriter! …
Seb’s Song – Roxanne Emery & Richard Bowcott
7 February 2018
I was chatting with Val, host of the Loss to Profound podcast and we ended up talking about music – shocker huh!? We were talking about how music is this amazing tool to help people when they are down because it delivers a way for them to connect to humanity without the need for anyone to be there…
Erland – Joonas Widenius
7 February 2018
Do you ever wonder why we do this? By “We” I mean Music Curators – people who show up every week and write about a track and share it out to the world? We do it for tracks like this – for people like Joonas Widenius.
Cormac McGee – Music to Curator Interview
31 January 2018
I’m Cormac McGee, from Toronto, Canada. Similar to many folks in the music industry, I’ve got a few different gigs. I do some concert production and promotion, artist management and DJing, and help run The Music Den: An incubator for musical entrepreneurs based at Ryerson University.
Growing Up – Igor Longhi
31 January 2018
I’m having a bit of a piano week – actually I’m having a bit of an Igor Longhi week! 😉 His beautiful melancholic track Broken Soul is featured on the Music to Grieve to list and while running through his catalog I feel in love with this track too.
Broken Soul in G Minor – Igor Longhi
30 January 2018
So we’re going back to our roots this week – soulful, sad piano music designed to put you in a reflective state and allow the melody to work its magic. Igor Longhi is most definitely a magician!
Adrian “Science” Robinson – Music to Curator Interview
24 January 2018
From our weekly series of Music to Curator Interviews, this week we’re chatting with Adrian “Science” Robinson from Music to Taste The South – check it out:
Everything’s Not Lost – Coldplay
24 January 2018
This is another song from the other perspective.
If last week’s Radiohead track was about mental illness and what it’s like to be in love with someone who has it – this week’s track is about relationships and what it’s like to be the one who leaves.