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AI and Music: Will the Algorithm Enslave Us?

Artificial Intelligence is the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. This is the definition of AI in the Oxford English Dictionary. Interesting right?! The statistical data showing rapid growth in the funding, startups and job listings […]

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An Instrumental Era: Orchestra (part 3)

Finally, we dwell over escape. The escape from the daily monotony, the same old music, the regularity of everything, and most times, this escape is hard to find. But it’s always there, and it’s not very far away. This time, we talk about that escape. These instrumentals are here because of how much we’ve learnt […]

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An Instrumental Era: Metal (part 2)

One of the most iconic instrumentals, which would be one of many, is Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption”, and it’s iconic because it changed, if not revolutionised a very common guitar technique – tapping. The entire two-minute piece is a barrage of squeals, tremelos, and most importantly, a new style of the very same tapping that […]

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An Instrumental Era: Jazz (part 1)

Ever since music came to play, it’s main star has always been the bright alluring voices of singers who brought a whole new dynamic to the music they accompanied. For ages, every instrument has looked over on how to best accompany the vocalist, make them shine, and live in the backseat for the benefit of […]