ISYS 100 VIDEO BLOG

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worlds top 10 earning DJs - nick

Tiesto - $22 million. The Dutch born DJ tops the list due to him earring an average of $250,000 per night.

Skirllex - $15 million. The dubstep king. He has single handed put dubstep on the map of electronic music; everyone loves him for his crazy hair and massive drops.

Swedish house mafia – $14 million. The most loved trio of Djs the world has ever seen. Unfortunately they preformed their last world tour this year due to the fact that they decided to split up.

David Guetta – $13.5 million. Is the main reason why house music has become so popular, his songs make have made it to the top of the iTunes list time and time again and he is leading the way for house music.

Steve Aoki – $12 million. Doesn’t earn as much per show, compared to our other DJs, but still makes the list due to the fact that he plays over 200 shows a year.

Deadmau5 – $11.5 million. Signature mouse head gear is always worn when performing, when he was informed that he made no.4 on the list of best DJs he responded with ‘well thats great but I don’t think of myself as a DJ’

DJ Pauly D – $11 million. Hit star from jersey shore, although most of his earnings come from TV appearances he still makes the list due to his income from DJing.

Kaskade – $10 million. Played a massive 125 shows over 2013.

Afrojack - $9 million. Has dated Paris Hilton, and has doubled as a producer for Pitbull.

Avicii – $7 million. 22 yr old from Sweden, he was nominated for a Grammy this year and is best known for his hit song Levels.

Life without music-sunil shrestha

Life without music

Friedrich Nietzsche said ‘without music, life would be mistake’. 

It is unknown to human kind when the single light of music was discovered but it is always know when it was heard  the moment would have been great. It will always remain an invalid and hypothetical statement -life without music.

no music, no life

Music gives the brain opportunities to explore, exercise, play with and train those mental, physical, and social muscles necessary for the maintenance and formation of society as we know it.  It offers a safe forum in which we can practice and hone skills that are vital through the life span.”

Not every person is a singer. Not every person plays a musical instrument. Not everyone is creates/composes music. Yet, we are all music consumers. Can you imagine a day without music? No music on the TV, on the radio, in a movie, in the car, at a sporting event, at a religious service…NO MUSIC! This is unimaginable to me.

                                                     MUSIC IS LIFE

house music - nick

House music is a genre of electronic dance music; it began in Chicago in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized circa 1984 in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, it fanned out to other major cities such as Detroit, Toronto, New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Montreal, Manchester, Miami, London, and Paris. It then began to influence popular music in Europe. Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop and dance music worldwide.

House music has many sub genres within it that many music producers branch out to create songs of a verity of genres. Some of these sub genres include:

Progressive house songs are usually much longer than your standard house music song this is because they usually start off with a slow beat that builds up slowly until it peaks.

Dubstep is often comprised of heavy bass that is manipulated to make a wobble pattern which is often referred to as the ‘wub’. Allot of people miss understand dubstep and say it is just random noise, because they don’t understand the genre. It is usually consisted of a slow beat which is then ‘dropped’ into deep bass and fast beats.

Hardstyle is a fast paced beat with a heavy bass and this is often known as the ‘duff duff’ music because the bass is so consistent and heavy it can be heard from a long way away. There are often lyrics involved but most listeners are interested in the extremely fast beat which encourages insane dancing.

Trance music is exactly what it sounds like, the music is usually very simple and repetitive and songs can go for 30 minutes at a time. It usually sends listeners into a trance like state where they dance around with no cares, usually because they are on some kind of drug, drugs are closely associated with this style of music.

deadmau5 - nick

Joel Thomas Zimmerman is known as deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse"), he is a Canadian progressive-house music producer and performer. Deadmau5  is a producer of many styles within the house  genre and sometimes other forms of electronic dance music. The origin of the deadmau5 name comes from when he was 14 years old and he started smelling a strange odour coming from his computer, eventually the computer shut off completely and he was forced to pull the computer apart in which he found a dead mouse. The story spread around the block and the kids in the neighbourhood referred to him as ‘that dead mouse guy’. Joel was a member of a chat room, and since he become known as dead mouse guy among his friends he decided to change his chat room name to ‘deadmouse’ but it was too many characters so he shortened it to deadmau5, which is a form of language known as ‘leet’. Joel created the original deadmau5 logo using some 3D modelling software. The ‘mau5head’ is the symbol of deadmau5 and everyone who knows him knows this, it is his icon.

Deadmau5 has long been one of my favourite and most respected music producers of all time, I’ve been listening to his music from the beginning i can still remember when i first heard strobe and it blew my mind, because I had never heard anything like it before and that was when i started listening to the progressive music genre.  Deadmau5 will long be remembered as one of the greats of music.

How music works?- Sunil Shrestha

How music works?

After my last blog on how music notes are constructed  we may be subsequently regarding how music works. Music has different fundamentals. These are pitch, beat(pulse), rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, allocation of voices, forms. These are the basic elements included in how music works but are not limited to this.

Pitch in music is a position of a single sound in the complete range of sound. Sounds are higher or lower in pitch according to the frequency of vibration of the sound waves producing them. A high frequency (e.g., 880 hertz[cycles per second]) is perceived as a high pitch; a low frequency (e.g., 55 Hz) as a low pitch.

Middle C (261.626 Hz) 

Beat A musical beat is an individual stroke of measured time, the steady pulse of a songs. beats are rhythmically organised by the time signature, and given speed by the tempo. Whereas off beat is off tempo.

RHYTHM, in music, the placement of sounds in time. In its most general sense rhythm (Greek rhythmos, derived from rhein, “to flow”) is an ordered alternation of contrasting elements. The notion of rhythm also occurs in other arts (e.g., poetry, painting, sculpture, and architecture) as well as in nature (e.g.,biological rhythms.)

MELODY Melody is the main tune of a song; the outcome of a series of notes. Melody is regarded as “horizontal” because its notes are read from left-to-right; while harmony is “vertical” because the notes are played simultaneously, and therefore must be written vertically in notation.

Harmony Harmony is produced when two complementary notes sound simultaneously. Harmony is found in chords, or can be played along a main melody.Harmony is described as being “vertical,” since harmony is only achieved when notes  are played at the same time. Melody, on the other hand, is “horizontal,” since its notes are played in succession and read horizontally (for the most part) from left-to-right.

Harmony maintained

Texture musical texture is the overall sound of a piece of music commonly described according to the number of and relationship between parts or lines of music: monophony, heterophony, polyphony, homophony, or monody. The perceived texture of a piece may also be affected by the timbre of the instruments, the number of instruments used, and the distance between each musical line, among other things.

Australian Hip Hop: Horrorshow ~ Anthony Ryburn

Horrorshow is an Australian Hip Hop duo originating from the inner west of Sydney with band members Solo (Vocal) and Adit (Producer).
They first gained some popularity with the release of their début album the 'Grey Space' in 2008 which earned them an aria nomination while still in their high school years, and led to future tours with other Australian Hip Hop artists such as 'Hermitude' and 'The Herd'.
Following this a release of the album inside story gained widespread recognition and praise for its soul and lyricism (much of what Australian hip hop is focused on today).
At every show they have played within Sydney, they have been sold out. They toured with the Hilltop Hoods travelling to Europe, London and all across Australia supporting them.
Despite their own albums, they have also collaborated with many other Australian hip hop artists to try and spread the music genre and its favourable culture.

If you would like to listen to some easy soul music backed with some impressive lyrics which paint images in your head, Horrorshow are definitely the band to be thinking about. Although they are not as mainstream as many others out there, they are still heavily praised in the underground world and have a distinct fan base.

Note To Self - Horrorshow