Bharatiya's music launch

The music launch of Bharatiya, Devisha Film's second production, saw music, dance and masti take centrestage. The event kicked off with some rocking performances put up by M-Town actors Jitendra Joshi, Tejashree Khele and Meeta Sawarkar. The highlight of the evening was when the cast and crew narrated funny anecdotes and incidents that occurred on the film sets. Producer Abhijeet Gholap's cameo was the centre of discussion at the event and sharing his opinion on it was Mohan Agashe. "If producers start acting in movies, where are we actors supposed to go?" Agashe asked. The moment he said this, the entire room including the cast and crew burst out laughing. Ajay Gogavale of the Ajay-Atul duo, who have composed the music of the film, were seen mingling and discussing the music with guests. "We were supposed to do Deool with Gholap but as our dates clashed with our Bollywood films, we promised that we would do his next film. Also, we wanted to work on a bhajan and this film gave us the opportunity and we just grabbed it," Ajay expressed. Gholap, who seemed excited about this project and confident about the duo's compositions, said, "The music is the soul of the film and we want it to reach out to maximum people so that they can connect with the film better when it releases."

Music, masti and magic

It was an evening dedicated to hit Tollywood numbers from 2011 and some electrifying dance performances at the Shilpakala Vedika, the venue of the annual music awards show conducted by a radio channel. T-town singers like Geetha Madhuri, Sai Shivani, Karunya, Hemachandra, Sravana Bhargavi and Suchitra performed on stage, much to the audiences' delight. Actresses Shraddha Das, Aksha, Tashu Kaushik and Reshma kept the audience on their feet with their dance moves. Music director Thaman was the star of the evening, bagging a bunch of awards for his compositions in "Dookudu". It was Taapsee Pannu however, who was the cynosure of all attention.

Artificial Intelligence Replacing Composers

Do you ever get tired of being creative? Well, now you can let the computer do all the creative work. Indeed, you can even have the computer annotate the compositions that they create, leaving you with no work whatsoever! Even though this sounds great, it necessitates that many composers find a new job. I find this information a great way to appreciate being stuck at the keyboard; you need to be the creative one, not some computer. Is it really possible though? Can artificial intelligence emulate existing compositions to create something original? I came across an interesting article published in AI Topics titled “Music, Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work...” It can be found here. Or a brief overview can be found below. It seems surreal that an artificial intelligence could be intelligent enough to comprehend the complexities associated with music, such as the pitch, rhythm, loudness, instruments, harmony, and other technical aspects. But it is a reality in today’s world. Robots are able read and annotate music. Computers can be used to imitate orchestras, follow a singer on stage, vary the dynamic and tempo, and even track the baton of a music director. Even with all these advancements, I think the most amazing aspect is using computers to compose and write music. Creating music takes more than just programming instructions. Composing music takes imagination, initiative, and intuition. Can these things really be taught and programmed into a computer? The breakthroughs in musical composition with the use of computers are hailed as “one of the greatest achievements of artificial intelligence …” This is not surprising because composing music is considered an art. Soon computers will be painting and singing :), and sculpting, writing poetry, writing novels, and other distinctly human activities. What is the world coming to? I’m a big fan of technology and making life easier for all of us. However, using computers for artistic purpose might be over doing it. The technological advances make you wonder about the future though. Soon, will we need to do anything, or will the computers do it all?

Music

A passing tone is a note that connects two pitches by stepwise motion. The notes in measure 5 would be passing notes. G and D are the main structural tones, while the F and E are the passing notes. The passing notes are used to add tension to the piece. The tension is later resolved by a pleasing harmonic tone. To learn more about how to add tension to a composition, please visit *How to Add Tension to Your Melody. A pickup tone is a note that leads to one of the structural tones. In every measure above, there is a pickup note on the forth beat. These pickup tones can either be a step away from the structural tones (this is more common), or they can be a leap away from the structural tone. When they are a leap away from the structural tone, the approach note is usually harmonically pleasing with the structural tone. For example, in measure 3, a D jumps up to a F. Both of these notes have a strong harmonic relationship with an underlying D minor chord. The melodic outline method is useful in constructing a roadmap for your composition, but I believe the second method allows for better sounding melodies. The second method is unrestrained, meaning there is no melodic outline. I prefer the second way because you can rely more on your ear, rather than having a pre-framed structure that your music melody has to fit into. The framework approaches allows for an easier time composing, but the second way, gives you more freedom to use your creativity.

How to Compose a Memorable Melody Music

In the previous section titled Become a Melody Composer I discussed two techniques to make an existing melody into a more memorable melody, but that article begged the question: How do you create the actual melody? How to compose a memorable melody music will address this question. Music melody is defined as a rhythmically organized sequence of single tones so related to one another as to make up a particular phrase or idea. When I first read this, I just said “huh?” However, the definition does bring up some important points. The melody is organized with related tones. A memorable music melody is logical; it’s not just a conglomeration of random notes. There are two main ways of composing music melodies. One way is by starting with a melodic outline, such as the one below, and then adding passing and pickup tones. The second method has no melodic outline. Note: this melody is nothing; I just created it to illustrate the differences between passing and approach notes. This also illustrates that even if you follow the rules you can create dull melodies. Something more that is needed for a melody, an emotional tug, a desire to weep or dance, an element that takes an initiative and intuition that cannot be taught. Or can it? Click artificial intelligence composing music for an interesting article about artificial intelligence composing original pieces.

local connection Party with the Fun Bus

Parents want the best for their kids although kids do not always want what is best for them. Sometimes parents have to get creative when it comes to keeping kids healthy. Broccoli is a forest of small trees just waiting to be devoured by a hungry dinosaur. Sun screen is really super power lotion that makes them run extra fast. And now, a bus is not just a bus. Parents up and down the East Coast are raving about the Fun Bus. Heather, a mom from New Jersey said, “The Fun Bus Party was a big hit. We really enjoyed it. The girls keep asking when the bus is coming back.” Back in 2001, a mother and daughter started the Fun Bus after parents at their childcare center came to them for birthday party ideas. They decided to come up with something that would both entertain kids and get them active. The result was the Fun Bus. So what is it? Their motto, “Fitness FUN on Wheels” says it all. Colorful school buses are stripped of their seats, padded with carpet and mats and filled with all the makings of the coolest jungle gym ever. Not only was the idea a success, but today it is a thriving franchise. Parents and teachers can hire the Fun Bus for birthday parties, daycares and special school events from 15 locations in New Jersey and several others in states including Pennsylvania and New York. The Fun Bus will pull up to your house and for an hour or so your kids and their friends will stretch, tumble and swing to their hearts’ content. It sounds like the perfect way to entertain the kids and show them that fitness can be fun! Can you think of any party this great that also comes to you? The buses are even heated and air conditioned to ensure maximum comfort. Gina and John Geraci, owners of the Gloucester County Fun Bus like to make parties unique by customizing playlists. The birthday girl or boy can choose anything from Barney to the Wiggles to party to. When the session is over, they get to slide out of the back of the bus. After each party everything is wiped down and the ventilation filters are cleaned, unlike your typical jungle gym. This is one healthy activity that both kids and their parents approve of, which is exactly why Gina and John chose to get involved with the Fun Bus. They looked around at other potential franchises but the Fun Bus seemed the most rewarding and they liked the idea of helping prevent childhood obesity. Having a little tyke of their own only made it more worth the while. Gina and John said that not only does the Fun Bus do parties and visit daycares, but they go to neighborhoods for playgroups while the mothers enjoy some girl time. They also do their part to help out in the community. If you went to the Ronald McDonald Touch a Truck event this past summer, you probably saw the Fun Bus. Gina and John sold tickets for the Fun Bus and all the proceeds went to the Ronald McDonald House.

An 18-Year-Old Looks Back On Life

Every generation thinks it's special--my grandparents because they remember horses and buggies, my parents because of the Depression. The over-30's are special because they knew the Red Scare of Korea, Chuck Berry and beatniks. My older sister is special because she belonged to the first generation of teen-agers (before that, people in their teens were "adolescents"), when being a teen-ager was still fun. And I--I am 18, caught in the middle. Mine is the generation of unfulfilled expectations. "When you're older," my mother promised, "you can wear lipstick." But when the time came, of course, lipstick wasn't being worn. "When we're big, we'll dance like that," my friends and I whispered, watching Chubby Checker twist on "American Bandstand." But we inherited no dance steps, ours was a limp, formless shrug to watered-down music that rarely made the feet tap. "Just wait till we can vote," I said, bursting with 10-year-old fervor, ready to fast, freeze, march and die for peace and freedom as Joan Baez, barefoot, sang "We Shall Overcome." Well, now we can vote, and we're old enough to attend rallies and knock on doors and wave placards, and suddenly it doesn't seem to matter any more. My generation is special because of what we missed rather than what we got, because in a certain sense we are the first and the last. The first to take technology for granted. (What was a space shot to us, except an hour cut from Social Studies to gather before a TV in the gym as Cape Canaveral counted down?) The first to grow up with TV. My sister was 8 when we got our set, so to her it seemed magic and always somewhat foreign. She had known books already and would never really replace them. But for me, the TV set was, like the kitchen sink and the telephone, a fact of life.