have musical memories. they go back to our earliest childhood. they form a large part of how we feel about time. as our life unfolds, we connect the dots with musical memories very often. ♪ my momma told me, if i was good, ♪ so, in the personal sense, we stitch together our lives with music in a very direct way. [rock music] i don't think that most people can tell you where they were ten years ago, but if you sing a song from that summer, they can tell you exactly where they were, who they were dating, what car they were driving in, and the music can spark those kind of things. (narrator) musical memory can function at both the personal and cultural levels. while personal memory is unique to individuals, cultural memory is something that is shared by a national, religious, or ethnic group. it often plays an important role in defining a culture's identity and its sense of the past. [chorus singing] (narrator) in the countries of mali, senegal, and gambia in west africa, musicians known as griots have traditi

out music.an see which regions of the brain are active by following the blood. what charles found is by people improvising or composing, you would expect for something that is that complicated, would require so mineral resources, you would expect a primary finding in his would be lots of activation in particular areas of the brain. paradoxically what he found was deactivation in the prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain that is the editor, tell you that is not good enough, inhibiting you from blurting things out. the great improvisers had turned that part of their brain off. from your intuitions as a composer, science is a step behind art, but we were able to find that. just from a player's standpoint, as you develop your skills over time, maybe studied in school, self-pop, but you build up certain skills. when it comes time to improvise or sit down and start to work out something musical, sometimes you have to forget all that stuff. push it out of your mind. it is a handy tool to be able to

[folk music] (man) music is something that people can dance to.move them out of one frame of mind into another. it can move them from being separate people to being one group of people. it can remind them of who they are. it also can get them out of the state that they're in now into some other state. it transforms them. why it's powerful we can't say. we just know that music moves people. in the middle of a church service, somebody will fall out, and a lot of that has to do with the build-up that's been achieved through the music. there are many ways in which it's powerful. it's not necessarily powerful in a good way. [drum roll] [trumpet fanfare] hitler used music brilliantly to organize people ,, so the power of music is not exactly something we can put our finger on scientifically. but we can observe it, and we can talk to people and have them tell you what it feels like to be in a music situation that does something important. (narrator) music plays a strong role in ceremonies and rituals of all kinds. in southern africa, the medicine dance o

music has thiese musically reinforcing views.od piece of music, you have the elements of rhythm, pitch, harmony, meter, articulation, timbre, all working together, so that you may not remember every note, but the ones you do remember inform the missing ones. it becomes a pattern of multiple queues. that is one thing. the other thing we found interesting from girl imaging studies -- narrow imaging studies is when you are remembering a piece of music, it activates almost identical circuits as when you are hearing it. so much so when you compare the bring activation of someone in imagining music, remembering, to someone listening, it is virtually indistinguishable by looking at the brain scan. i wonder -- and brings up the question, how did it would you say your musical imagery is? when you imagine music, is it like a little tape playing in your head? >> yes, it is. and it works the other way, from the point of view from the composer, trying to compose something. i might be sitting on an airplane and i will remember some experience.

this is the music.to be stubborn and not to say this is about the music. >> your dad turned you on to it as a kid. for a long time it was not about music, per se. you have plans of being a farmer. tell me about that. >> i looked of the movements of africans in western civilization, and one of the reasons we are here is because of the propensity we had to agriculture, architecture, and many things we were brought here for, which you do not get to hear about in this history in the united states, so i was saying, i am not interested -- i have seen my father take a day job, he eventually worked up the brass foundry and eventually firestone tires, every kind of tyre you can imagine, and that is what he did. i saw him always working to bring home a check to take care of his family, but somebody else held the keys to whether we live or did not or whether he lived or not. i am not going to let that happen. at least my family is eating. i love music. i want to play music on saturday. open up the farm. come on do

there are people who go, "that's not music." music is music if someone thinks it's music. you can't put it in a box and say, "this is music." it's all these wonderful abstract things brought together. you can think about it and rationalize it and express it and explain it. that's all afterwards. it gets you on an emotional level first. (narrator) while music seems to exist in every human society, its meaning and role differ from culture to culture. but the physical laws of sound are universal. at the root of all sound is vibration. [bell tolling] not only the root of all music is vibration, but in some sense, perhaps, the root of everything is vibration. everything is moving all the time. the earth is moving. the sun is moving. on the earth, the waves are beating against the shore. everything which is, is vibration. in order to have a sound, you need a physical object which vibrates, whether it's a cello or a speaker in a radio, you need a medium to carry that vibration. typically, it's air, and finally we need an ear, an ear drum, and a brain to turn it into something tha

music itself. it's all about children, about saving them, hundreds of thousands of children, through music. honk! [orchestral music] >> consider the life of jose gregorio hernandez. [dramatic conclusion] ♪ his blindness didn't stop the orchestra from letting him be as much a part of it as any other kid. [whistles and applause] you can see the result for yourself--magical. [ticking] you've probably never seen anything as adorable as a five-day-old elephant. but this story is more about her mother. her name is mpenzi. she is the large lady lending a helping trunk. mpenzi didn't grow up in the wild. she was an orphan and was raised here, at an orphanage for elephants in kenya. these kids have all lost a parent to poachers, mainly. and here they're cared for by the gentlest men you've ever met. not only do they spend all day with their elephants; when it's sleep time, they bed down right next to them. welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm bob simon. in this edition, we visit with a trio seeking to make a

my family has a music store.ave worked hard enough and committed my life deep enough to have been able to earn a seat at the table, you know, to earn a place in music where opportunities as a whereas this have exposed themselves to me, and i have been ready to go when the call came. >> charlie -- tavis: charlie, ben has worked hard enough to get a seat at the table. do you think that people still have to work to get a seat at the table? having to earn their spot at the table, my sense is that that is not so much the case anymore. >> you get a hit, and all of a sudden, someone polls you up a chair. just because you have a hit does not mean you are good. that just means you have a hit. you could have had 12 people writing that hit. not that that makes it any less of a hit. tavis: in this business -- >> it seems like a whole different business than when i started. i do not know where these people come from. overnight. tavis: "american idol." >> back in the day, you just kept hitting your head against the wall until

music." >> she was torn between the church and the secular music -- [ record scratches ] >> hold it story? there really was a girl named doris. in fact, she's the sister of vy higginsen. that's one of the reasons why vy helped to write the play. oh, and one more thing. knoelle is related to vy, as well. she's vy's daughter. but in the show, knoelle plays the role of doris, who -- remember -- is actually her mother's sister and, therefore, knoelle's aunt in real life. [ bell dings ] got all that? okay. back to the story line. >> she went off and she sang the secular music, and then she became popular in america and europe with the famous song "just one look." >> ♪ just one look ♪ and i knew-ew-ew >> ♪ i fell in love with you, baby ♪ >> ♪ in just one look >> ♪ i fell in love, fell in love ♪ >> the lead role requires a powerful voice with an extraordinary range. >> ♪ just one... >> knoelle hadn't even been born yet when the show was written in 1983, but it turns out to be a role she was born to perform. >> ♪ ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ooh aah aah ♪ >> most of the young performers in the musical g

tonight , we have beer and music. -- tonight we have great beer and music. it is beer week. dozen local brewers in african hall. we have a deejays to set up throughout the museum and a live performance at 9:00 p.m. tonight. >> what has been your favorite part as a participant or as an observer? >> my favorite part is to walk around the aquarium in to see people with a drink in their hands, getting to know maybe somebody new, may be looking for a day, or chatting with friends. there jellyfish. i mean, they are beautiful. >> the culmination of the animals. >> it is very impressive. we do not have this at home. >> tell us a little about some of the spider's we see here on display. >> at the california academy of sciences, there is a very large collection of preserved and live specimens, which are the evidence about evolution. we have the assassin spiders, which are spiders that exclusively kill and eat other spiders. they are under the microscope here. research done and the california academy's i rhinology lab suggests that the assassin spiders have been doing this for over 150

(music). (music). (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> one of the stars also and they would play with the guitar which is not here today and also the violin. >> (speaking spanish). >> and it was called sapa tao. >> (speaking spanish). >> okay. so dance to the sound of a violin or the guitar is one of the unique forms of perare you vaifian dance and brought with the african slave trade in the 16th century. the spaniards started it and not only as a form of social dominance but ways of enforce their ideology and with the footwork and done individually or in a group. >> (speaking spanish). >> so we started with a certain type of dance until at least two dance we challenge each other, yes. >> (speaking spanish). (applause). >> (speaking spanish) (applause). >> this type of patterns that he just performed are called this and this is a communication with the son and the mother and when we die, and the second one is with the hint he just showed. >> (speaking spanish). >> most of the instruments that werwere

and that's to me where christian music should be. >> reporter: he first entered the music scene in the1980s as part of the ground-breaking christian hip-hop group dc talk. more than 20 years later, he says he's moved away from direct preaching in his music and now tries to write more from his own life experiences. >> i do think that i have something really good. so when you have something really good you can't help but want to share it with people. i'm not trying to cram it down their throat. i'm not trying to proselytize. i'm just a guy that loves god with all my heart, when i'm at my best. >> reporter: and he says he's become more open about his weaknesses. one of his most popular songs, "get back up," is about how he responded to a friend getting a divorce. >> i wrote that song because i probably wasn't there for him the way i should have been. >> reporter: he says for him, it's not about cranking out hits and making money, but rather watching how god uses the music to touch people's lives. for example, he's heard from several people who say his recent song "forgiveness" prompted th

>> what is new music as opposed to old music. >> i lot of people asked that ques and for us we are hoping to support people that don't feel that they have a home in a rock club and don't have a home in a place that hosts singer song writer and cannot fill a 300 feet performance hall and we try not to put a lot of stylelistic barriers but we emphasize living composers who are trying to do something different in our mission statement we call it out as creative and non-commercial music. that is subjective. but hopefully that gives you the idea. >> how do you support yourself? how do you pay the rent if you are going to have free events and concerts and this place is very large and you have a occupantcy of 286 and i don't know if that is in your 16 foot space or the whole space? how do you support yourself? >> the business model is not predicated for taking income in from the concert, the revenue streams that we are planning we include, renting out of the rehearsal room and the daytime space for office and administrative use and conducting practices for those of us who are part of the staff t

i think every designer is always listening to music and music transports you in a romance, in a dream, everything. >> rose: we conclude this evening with mickey edwards, author of "the parties versus the people: how to turn republicans and democrats into americans." >> the problem is not republicans. the problem is republicans and democrats, the white house and the congress. it's people on all sides who say you know, we have an ideology and we're not going to ever reach a point where we're going to compromise. we're going to fall on our swords. but we have a country to run, charlie. we've got to make sure the troops get their supplies. we've got to make sure we pay our bills. we've got to make sure the water is pure, the bridges don't collapse. you know, there's a point you say "i stood up for my principles, i'm going to fight for my principles." and then at the end because there's 300 million of us because we're very diverse, you need to compromise and say "how do we make government work for the country?" >> rose: education, fashion and politics when we continue. captioning sponsored

it is the music coming from inside the bar. but there is no music coming from the patio i just want to be really clear, that is the only thing that i want to be clear about. >> some things are off the cad. >> live band and pouncing off walls, this was 7:31 for a noise complaint. >> is that the day of the one-day permit? >> 7:31. >> i think that it was because there were several complaints on that. >> any questions, commissioners of the police? >> okay pthank you. public comment? >> on jones, 620 jones street. come on up. now it is your turn. . >> my name is stewart... >> could you speak into the mic. >> my stewart selic,s and i live at 620 jones and i am pretty much overlooking that side of the building. there is quite a bit of noise that comes up from people not just conversation, but when people get a little high then the shouting starts and so on. my question here is exactly what kind of music are they going to play? i have been there and they have had a mariachi band come in, you figure this is just one night and so on. the

that the hearing impaired can actually hear saw music.o he began performing at nursing homes. but how is it possible that people who have severe trouble hearing can hear the sound of the saw? we asked a specialist. >> the saw music produces what is very close to a pure frequency. it has no other complicating frequencies. >> what we usually hear in music are several different frequencies mixed together. for example, the violin. it creates a jagged sound wave. that means there is more than one frequency. meanwhile, the saw makes more refined sound waves. this tells us the structure of the music's frequency is simple. they call this pure frequency. people with hearing problems have trouble picking up complex sounds. they do better with simple sounds. that's why the hearing-impaired students invited inayama to perform at their school. ♪ ♪ [ applause ] >> everyone became wrapped up in playing saw instruments. >> now that they know they can hear the sound of the musical saw, i hope they will form a club. they looked so happy. i'm glad i could p

does that mean there's a lot of great music coming out? that there's more great music? not really.ut it's available to you so if you're passionate about what you do, what we talk about is the human element of music. when two people get together -- >> dave: making music with another person. >> with another person and it's the imperfection that gives you personality. >> dave: and how that dynamic is different when you're making it by yourself because you're interacting with another living breathing being. but you also talk about how mr. nine inch nails, what's his name? >> trent rez or in. >> dave: trent reznor. he uses that tool and makes music the way it was made at sound city. >> he's a brilliant dude. he's a classically trained musician but he also recognizes technology as an instrument that you can't do with other instruments. he can't do, which i think is one of the things that -- one of the things that's made music a little less exciting is you listen to a singer and it doesn't really sound like a human being, it's been flat lined by some auto tune program or a drumer that doe

a night of flamingo music. and other renowned musicians combine rowman i can music of i go far with footwork and song. dinner will be served throughout the performance so make your reservation early to ensure great view. okay. maybe valentine's day isn't your thing. well, have no fear because sf is here and there's over 300 events celebrating san francisco's craft fair legacies throughout the city. one event that i'm really looking forward to is the brewery blow out at speaks easy lauger. friday, february 15, enjoy 15 rare and limited beer on tap to live music and home brewing demonstration. and for complete beer week 2013 schedule check out official page. after the festivities come burn off all those calories in the park. free outdoor swing dance at golden gate park. get ready to swing when the streets of golden gate park will close to traffic and dancers take over. come join in on the fun at 11:00 a.m. sharp. and that's the weekly buzz. for more information about any of these events, visit us at sf negotiatio

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