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File-Sharing Fiasco

October 20, 2015 by Ari Kellen

Music is a precious thing. A universal form of communication and a source of enjoyment for millions, music is a resource that all can love. However, what happens when someone intends to steal that resource? If you were born during the internet age, you’re familiar with the music industry’s battle against file-sharing and illegal downloading. After that last battle with Spotify recently came to a close, another contender for the crosshairs has announced their entrance to the file-sharing game.

Aurous, recently announced and already a target for lawsuits, has its work cut out if it hopes to survive. A $150,000 fine levied at the young company looks to stop the sharing before it can begin. Next in a long line of dubious downloading websites, Aurous is equal parts Popcorn Time and BitTorrent.

Aurous is still young in its development lifespan, but it may never get to spread its wings if these lawsuits are successful. Designed to be competition for the litany of music-based listening apps, questions abound if Aurous is necessary in a world flooded with listening programs.

Many of these questionable services stand on their options to pay, with commercials occasionally to offset the legality of their music library. Like Netflix,Ari Kellen many of these services offer their selection of music for little to nothing when compared to the price of acquiring all the necessary albums. However, Aurous lacks the influence to motivate advertisers into joining them, and their library of songs is gathered from pirated files on Russian websites.

Though still too early to tell, it’s something to see the boom of file-sharing services, and the impact they’ve had on the market. In a time where purchasing content has become a bygone tendency, the free-market has learned many lessons through Napster, Limewire and now Bittorrent. We may see the first preemptive strike in the history of this long and bloody media war, and the target is Aurous.

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Music and Health

October 15, 2015 by Ari Kellen

Music is powerful. The urge to produce a beat, to communicate through song and dance is as old as primitive man. Whether with drum and bass or rock and sticks, music has an interesting power over us as listeners. Altering our mood, allowing us to relax or conjuring old memories, Music potential is limitless. A special bond between performer and listener ensures that no two people will feel a song the same way and that phenomenon is more far-reaching than you think. What are some of the ways music can be healthy for us?

Ari KellenIn recent studies, Neuroscientists have discovered that listening to music has a quantifiable reaction in the human brain. Activating the reward centers of the listener’s brain, music can and will heighten positive emotion, and release dopamine to elevate our emotional levels to that of near elation. Conducting scans of patients’ brains while listening to music also revealed that almost no centers of the brain are immune to music’s touch. It should come as no surprise that culturally, music has been used in tribal rituals as a gathering tool and for healing. The thrumming power of live music has an entrancing effect, connecting whole swaths of people in joy-fueled reverie. Modern medicine, adopting the tricks of ancient tribes, have begun flirting with using music to aid in the recovery of certain procedures.

Music has a scientifically proven ability to reduce anxiety-induced increases in stress hormone. Able to sooth a climbing heart rate or calm skyrocketing blood pressure, music literally combats stress. Another fascinating study has shown that patients receiving hernia surgery have demonstrated a drop on cortisol levels, but only after listening to music post-surgery. Music’s ability to reduce stress has shown to be more effective for some patients than orally-administered anxiolytic drugs.

The medical benefits of music continue even further when a study conducted with 272 premature babies revealed staggering results. While the children recovered in the neonatal ICU, parents or performers played music for their young and fragile audience, and the infants demonstrated not only increased activity but an affinity for lullabies sung by their parents. From fighting disease to managing pain, music has a very real power over much more than our feet.

 

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Beale Street Music Festival A Success

May 4, 2015 by Ari Kellen

This weekend many music fans were “Walking with their feet 10 feet off of Beale” as the 2015 Beale Street Music Festival went off without a hitch in Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee. Headlining performers drew huge crowds to see the likes of Ed Sheeran and Hozier on the last day of the festival. Historically in any festival, Sundays are the slowest and least crowded due to it being the day before the work week begins. Such was not the case this year in Memphis as beautiful weather and great musical talent kept the crowd and the energy plentiful.john-fogerty-Ari Kellen

The organization who put the festival on is called Memphis in May recalls years past where attendance and atmosphere was not up to par due to the weather. Having great weather makes all the difference with sunny skies making the Mississippi River look as majestic as it can.

This year, acts ranged in genre and target audience as the festival drew crowds from all age groups. John Fogerty on Saturday brought in many 20-50 year olds, while Paramore and Sheeran drew in younger teenagers to the festivities. Festival organizers thought the acts out well as they appealed to not only age groupers but also home town supporters of the music show. A local group, Star & Micey played hometown favorites with their harmony and energy.

There were not only local and domestic band playing as the UK was well represented at the festival. Debuting at the stage at the UK centered venue was Britains Kaiser Chiefs, followed by Ireland’s Hozier and Ed Sheeran on the Bud Light Stage.

In all the festival was an utter success leaving an experience in the attendees mind of complete satisfaction and good vibes.


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