If Music is Free..........

I just read an article that was asking: Si la musica es gratis, qué ganan los artistas?; that specific question caught my attention because is very easy for us say things like: " I am goig to use ARES to download some music" or, "hey!, turn on your Bluetooth, and send me that song" and we actually do it; it's pretty normal for us.

But... have you ever thought about all the people that worked so hard to create a song? have you ever thought about the music engineer, about the song writer, about the sound engineer and, about the artist itself?

Most of the time we are very selfish, we only think about ourselves and all the benefits that we can get, so we always forget to think about others.

The people who worked together on a project to present to an audience deserve remuneration. When they ask for something back, they actually do the right thing; if you never charge any money for your presentation or work, is because you don't appreciate it, and you actually think that is not worth...

There are people who think paying for music is something crazy, but when you pay for it, you are respecting and appreciating the work of an artist that you really like.

Music Therapy

Music therapy is a process were people use music to improve or maintain health. It helps to improve the level of the quality of life in different aspects by using music experiences to achieve their goal.

Music therapy is being used to treat different diseases. According to some researches music can help to improve some diseases having a profound effect on the body.

For example, researchers suggest that listening Mozart’s piano can reduce the number of seizures in people with epilepsy. This is called the “Mozart effect”

Depending on the disease the person has is the beat or type of music that they use. Music therapy can help cancer patient, children with ADD, and others. Also some hospitals are using this treatment to help pain management, to promote movement, to calm patients and other benefits. Some benefits include a decrease in blood pressure, heart rate and levels of anxiety in heart patients. Music can have surprising effects in our bodies.

Also music helps to relieve stress. Music is especially helpful in relaxation and stress management

I think that music therapy can be very important for some persons, because they can see how their health is improving while they are just hearing music. Not also for people with disease is helpful. I think that can be very useful for students like us, because sometimes all the homework and exams that we have stress us a lot provoking some disadvantages in our health and we don’t defeat like always. So, maybe hearing the music that we like can make us forget about all the things that we have and relax making us feel better, and making on us feelings of positively and doing things in a better way.

Hope for Haiti Now

We all know there has been a worldwide support for Haiti. At school we have already cooperated with this cause with the fund raising we had several weeks ago. We are all very proud to see we actually made a difference with our help. People have suffered a terrible lost most of us cannot even imagine, so we should demonstrate we care by being solidarious.

As we at Tec helped Haiti, also many famous singers have. Successful artists like Bono, Jay Z, Madonna, Shakira, Coldplay, Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, Wyclef Jean, Sting, and Beyoncé among many others, have showed their support for Haiti by recording several songs to create an album called Hope for Haiti Now. Obviously, all the money from this album will be automatically donated. I think we should learn from these selfless people who are working a lot to help the least fortunate. They are trying to show us that no matter what you are good at, you can always help in your own way. I think most of the time people are driven by money. The power that money has nowadays makes us forget from time to time that people are way more important.

Music is an element that homogenizes society. Even if someone doesn’t understand the language, he or she can still like the music. The songs of this album are really beautiful in their music but also in the message they are trying to communicate. Their songs show their support for Haiti and also motivate the rest of us to do so.

Today it is really easy to donate and help others because of technology. I was watching a video about a song and it included a link to donate right away. Here is one good way in which technology influences our life. We have previously mentioned a lot of problems caused by technology. Well, here is one way technology can help us be a better person and think about others. If we have the chance and we like these songs, we should buy them not download them. Downloading music from the internet is very common. I do not have anything against it, but I think for this case we should make an exception. Every time we download them illegally, it’s like we are taking money away for the people in Haiti.
I hope we can all get a chance to help. Here are some songs from the album Hope for Haiti Now I recommend you listen to: Send me an angel, A Message 2010, Hallelujah, Let it be and Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour).