I spent ten years playing music by night and studying music therapy and clinical psychology by day. When I had a baby everything changed. Slowly, all of my efforts and talents culminated into one project that felt right.
During my studies in clinical psychology, I was taken by a class taught by Arietta Slade on different types of bonds a baby has to his/her mother. During that time, I had a baby at home the exact age of those being discussed; the material from class was bound to hit me in a personal way. We learned about what a parent can do to give the baby a feeling of security and protection, which allows the baby to feel safe enough to then go out into the world, in increasing spurts, explore, and eventually create new bonds with others.
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On my mornings off from school I would savor the time with my baby, and found that the moments during which I felt most in tune with him was when I was singing to him, he was singing back, and we were smiling at each other.
I felt compelled to share the music and the knowledge I had gained with other parents. Now, when parents tell me they are singing more with their baby and smiling more at each other as a result of my workshops and CD, I know that indeed all of my paths thus far have converged perfectly.
Thank you so much for the incredible experience of being in your class. As a new mom, so many of the things I was feeling were scary and overwhelming. Your songs and your words made me feel every week that they were not only normal and OK, but also a very special part of being a mom. The songs give me the opportunity to pause occasionally and recognize how magical my baby is, and how incredible a gift.
Thank you so much for the wonderful class. This is such a tender time for me (and all the Moms) and I really appreciated how supported I felt by your warm, thoughtful facilitation. It was also super helpful to get your expert thoughts and to hear from the other Moms too about shared experiences. Aaron and I both love your music.
From the moment I greet Julia each morning to our playtime and meal time and bathtime, right up until our last cuddle each evening, your music is in my head (and often coming out of my mouth, albeit off key! )
I hope my daughter will sing your songs to HER children some day. They are timeless and very special.
My husband and I have been so incredibly touched by the magical, sweet, honest and funny lyrics in your songs. No matter how grown my son becomes over the years, I will always look back on this time with incredibly fond and sweet memories of listening to your music.
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The beluga whale who inspired the popular children's song "Baby Beluga," died this week at the Vancouver Aquarium. At 46 years old, she spent her entire life at the aquarium, and lived much longer than the average beluga whale. She died Monday afternoon at the aquarium.
A preliminary autopsy shows Kavna likely died of cancer. Aquarium veterinarian Dr. Martin Haulena told reporters the lesions and tumors he found "are most consistent with cancer, and that is unfortunately a disease we associate with age," Citytv reports. Belugas typically live 25 to 30 years.
Since 1979, Kavna has been associated with the song "Baby Beluga," about a baby whale playing in the sea. Singer/songwriter Raffi Cavoukian visited the aquarium, and was inspired to write the song about a baby beluga like Kavna:
"She had a profound impact on me when I met her in 1979," Cavoukian said. "Kavna even came out of the water and placed a gentle, graceful kiss on my cheek and I couldn't stop talking about it for a couple weeks."
"That encounter inspired the song 'Baby Beluga,' and as I like to say, the song set the whale free," Cavoukian told News1130. "Life is complex and it brings us situations that have silver linings and give us something that they wouldn't ordinarily have given."
Kavna was the most famous of the beluga whales at the aquarium, largely due to that song. The aquarium estimates more than 30 million people have seen Kavna, the Vancouver Sun reports. She was even featured on a Canadian postages tamp in 2006 to mark the aquarium's 50 th anniversary.
The song actually debuted several years ago (2016, to be precise). Still, for every mom I've mentioned it to that has asked, "What's that?" it has clearly not reached the popularity level it deserves. The British company C&G Baby Club commissioned a creative agency to create a song using science that would make babies happy. That agency reached out to two expert psychologists from Goldsmiths, University of London, Dr. Caspar Addyman and Dr. Lauren Stewart.
Addyman shared that the idea for this song sprung from another area where music was used to target a niche audience: violinist Lori Anderson's concert for dogs. Both he and Stewart were asked to take on this endeavor due to their previous experience and studies.
The creative agency had a short list of artists they wanted to approach, ideally, all who had young babies. Imogen Heap was on the top of the list; her daughter, Scout, was almost two at the time. The little girl became Imogen's collaborator, as a melody her daughter used to sing inspired this song's beginnings.
Before Imogen began creating her test melodies, Addyman and Stewart shared their knowledge from previous work. "Babies as young as 4 months old can pick out, 'This is a happy song, this is a sad song,'" Addyman shares. "They can actually match the music to the [happy or sad] face they're seeing. Basically, that's down to a major key or a minor key."
Creating somewhat of a storyline throughout the song was also recommended as a way to keep the babies engaged. Dr. Stewart recommended singing the song in the presence of an infant (Imogen had Scout for that) with a smile and loving tone.
Twenty-six babies were brought into the lab at Goldsmiths, University of London, to test out four melodies Imogen created. The babies sat in a room that looked like a nursery, and from a soundproof booth, Addyman and Stewart gauged their reactions.
"We were filming their reactions, seeing what they think of it. We also got the parents to rate what they thought about each piece of music. Then, in our lab, we had a motion-tracking system; we tried tying little things on the babies' hands and legs to see who would dance the most." That last method led to some complications. "You can imagine if you strap some things to babies' arms, they're going to try to get rid of it," Addyman explains.
Out of four distinct melodies, one was the obvious frontrunner. From there, Imogen took that melody (the one she had initially heard sung by her daughter) and ran with it. "It was composed for babies, by babies," Addyman jokes.
The same babies came back for round two after Imogen had crafted two slightly different versions of a song with lyrics at varying (fast) speeds. The babies listened to both all the way through. "This time, we got even more ambitious with trying to capture their reaction. We dangled them in a baby bouncer to see if we could get them to dance to it," Addyman shares. "We had little heart rate monitors on them to see if they got more excited and when their heart rate goes up."
It showed the babies who had been part of the research process reacting to the song in their homes. Addyman shares that along with this and the release of a separate music video of the song, "nothing really seemed to happen."
According to Addyman, it was the website I Fucking Love Science that picked up a post he had written about their research. Once on their website, the video went viral: "I think the original video got up to about 15 million views."
The comments on the original YouTube video prove that "The Happy Song" was indeed making kids and babies happy! However, the audio wasn't exactly identical to Imogen's original version (there were some added sound effects), so a few years later, Imogen rereleased the song with an animated music video.
As much as I could listen to "The Happy Song" all day long, I was curious if the scientists had any other tips for making babies happy. The answer was pretty simple: just give them attention. "To make them laugh, the thing that makes them so happy that they burst into laughter is when we are focused on them and giving them our undivided attention," says Addyman.
This #MeToo-era-cum-yuletide-season, radio stations are pulling the plug on that holiday earworm with lyrics that, to some, ring date-rape warning bells, rather than evoking innocent snow-bound flirtation.
"I do realize that when the song was written in 1944, it was a different time, but now while reading it, it seems very manipulative and wrong," host Glenn Anderson wrote on the station's web site. "The world we live in is extra sensitive now, and people get easily offended, but in a world where #MeToo has finally given women the voice they deserve, the song has no place."
But he told NPR that he had no idea of the "tornado" he would face: hundreds of emails demanding the song be put back in rotation, more than ten times the number of requests he said he fielded asking him to yank it.
"People are unbelievably passionate about their Christmas music, it's the one thing that you can't mess with," Figula said, adding that listeners rely on it "to reminisce to the good old days when life was easy and simple."
A feminist defense of the lyrics points out that when they were written a woman with a good reputation had to protest a man's advances, even if she actually welcomed them, and the song's figurative woman is actually expressing her sexuality in a veiled era-appropriate way.
Furthering the ambiguity, KOSI in Denver has done an about-face, first banning the song on Monday, then opening up a poll to put the decision to listeners. The results were unequivocal: the vast majority of the 15,000 respondents demanded the song's return, the station said. 152ee80cbc
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