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Welcome to Vibrations!

Debut Edition
The world is full of stories about people, engaged in the infinite variety of things that people do.

So many of these stories involve music. After all, music is interwoven into every aspect of human activity.

The Museum of Music is going to bring those stories to you.

Each edition of Vibrations will give you a peek into the non-stop, never-ending life of music around the world, with:
  music news & events from our hub in Atlanta and around the globe
  updates on the progress of the Museum of Music
  links to original articles, related web sites, and other entertaining & enlightening resources

We'll choose items that tell the tale of humanity through music, and we'll bring them right to you, organized by the major themes of our seven pavilions.

Once our physical museum is open for business in Atlanta, we'll also tell these stories through our interactive exhibits and events. Until then, keep your finger on the global pulse by regularly reading Vibrations.

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Music Gallery
World's Largest Library Picks 50 Recordings to Preserve First
Taking a first step to preserve a legacy of more than a century of American recordings, the Library of Congress has started its registry. Which musical pieces will accompany "I Have a Dream" and FDR's fireside chats?  More...

The "Year of the Blues" Begins
It's not just the news that is giving us the blues.  We've had the US Congress' help: 2003 has been officially declared the "Year of the Blues."  More...

Prehistoric Rock-Art Rocks
Around the world, ancient cave scrawls tend to be in hard-to-reach locations. Rock-art acoustician (now there's a job!) Steven Waller thinks it's because of the acoustics.  More...

Music Zoo
500 Lost Beatles Tapes Recovered in Raids
Police get back... "Get Back," an album planned by the Beatles in 1969. The tapes disappeared that year and were assumed lost forever. What can we expect?  More...

What the Heck is the Conductor Doing Up There?
Two new videos try to explain the magic and mystique of the baton.  More...

Where in the World is Carson Daly?
And how can he be in 11 places at once, when he's really nowhere at all? The technology of creating local radio on a national basis.  More...

Music Workshop
A Piano That Tunes Itself
Other players can tune their own instruments, but not pianists. Until now... provided they're willing to let their self-tuning piano "warm up."  More...

More Protection for Tropical Woods
CITES, the international organization that regulates trade on endangered species, recently expanded its protection of tropical woods often used in instrument making.  More...

Bass Player's Surprising Choice
California musician Steve Shain's favorite double bass is peeling paint... revealing aluminum?!  More...

Music Lab
Computer + Chaos = Composition?
Eduardo Reck Miranda had trouble teaching his computer programs to write decent music. So he programmed them to teach themselves, and added a dash of chaos.  More...

For Your Ears Only
That whispering in your ear may be coming from Woody Norris. His company's HyperSonic Sound system can aim a narrow beam that only you can hear.  More...

Seventy-Six Honey Bees in the Big Parade
Imagine the notes on a score coming alive and flying around the page like a swarm of bees. That's exactly how Tim Blackwell's improvising computer does it.  More...

Music Port
TV Guide Names "100 Moments that Rocked TV"
Sure, Elvis and the Beatles are there, and so is MJ's moonwalk. But who was that doing the Hucklebuck in prime time on February 11, 1956?  More...

Zimbabwean "Queen of the Mbira" Talks Shop
Stella Chiweshe isn't a household word.  Neither is mbira. But she had to shake up the households of her village to become a master of the thumb piano.  More...

Music Space
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Get 5 Grammy Nods
The ASO will be watching the 45th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 23, having been nominated for best classical album, best choral performance, and more.  

THIS JUST IN:  ASO Wins 3 Grammy Awards! More...

Patrons Caught Watching TV at Houston's Grand Opera
But who can blame them? No, that's not a comment about the opera, but on the Houston Grand Opera's innovative OperaVision technology.  More...

Music Classroom
Mariachi Academy gets New York Strumming
A pilot project in East Harlem is bringing musical traditions from Mexico to children growing up in "a land of salsa and merengue."  More...

Austin Sound Takes Over University...
The new Center for American Music at the University of Texas will have "more blues than Bach, more rock 'n' roll than Ravel. Professors, too. And a label?  More...

... and Sound Takes Over Austin
The schoolchildren playing on some playgrounds are really playing - music, that is. Musical play structures have been popping up all over town.  More...