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Al Jeel Al Jadeed

Tweep support for ‘Al Jeel Al Jadeed’

Welcome to the age of social media! And because these are the times we live in, it definitely matters what you do, say, or tweet.   I suddenly found out how you can embed tweets into website posts (silly me that I never researched that before, although I had seen it on other websites). I wanted to embed a whole...

Screenshot from 'Al Jeel Al Jadeed'

‘Al Jeel Al Jadeed’ was down, but it’s back again!

‘Al Jeel Al Jadeed’, my new music video, apparently remains on the stormy track it has been on from the very birth of the song. Yesterday, due to certain circumstances, I have had to take the song down from Youtube and make a new edit for the video. The good news is: it’s online again! The bad news is, it...

Evolution of music consumerism – a short trip through time

Evolution of music consumerism – a short trip through time

1. The old age: no musician, no music. As simple as that, unless you count singing in the bathroom as music. 2. The phonograph age: rich people could have professionally played music whenever they wanted to hear it. 3. The radio age: songs were heard by a wider audience. Ordinary people started to hear recorded music too.

Pre-release pilot study of Al Jeel Al Jadeed: results

On September 1, an email was sent out to a small group of people containing the mp3 file of the finished new Arabic song ‘Al Jeel Al Jadeed’. The next day, an opportunity was given to 50 volunteers to test-drive the song on their mp3-players before its release, after answering a few survey questions. This little article contains an analysis...