Our Brains on Media (module #3)

Oh look at this picture! It was done in Petersburg. I sent my summer holidays there. There are a lot of protected forests in Petersburg, like parks, full of squirrels and birds. It is so quit and peaceful there, you forget about your problems. Squirrels don’t scare people and you can feed them.
When I look at this video, I return to beautiful time spend there and my LIMBIC BRAIN starts working automatically: nature, music, no violence, peace around, positive emotion weaves you.

And suddenly, a huge car traveling at full speed appears. Not only mine, but the REPTILIAN BRAIN of poor squirrel, all animals and lady in the car react to unanticipated situation. We say:”0000000hhhhhhhhhhh”. A little bit funny, but this is a truth.

What helps us to avoid this terrible car incident? Of course perfect BRIDGESTONE. Just this BRIDGESTONE advertisement let us look at screen and use our NEOCORTEX brain. Our car has the same tires as well. Really good one! Believe me!

My Personal Media İnventory

1.BOOKS:

Of course, I like to read the books very much. To tell you the truth, I haven’t enough time to read. But on holidays I try to back to my “library”. I like to read different kinds of books: detective, fantastic and classic.
Nowadays people don’t read a lot as there’re a lot of other ways like internet, television,computers where we can get full information about everything. From one side it helps us to save time and to find information very quick. But when we read a book we’re completely absorbed in the “world of the book”. And feel ourselves as a hero of composition. My favorite book is “Harry Potter”. This book really let me see and feel a world of mysterious.


2. NEWSPAPERS/MAGAZINES:

I also like to read newspapers and magazines. I’m subscriber of the several magazines: “Golden Globe”, “100 people who changed the world”, “National Geography”, “Erudite” and so on. I can get more interesting and detailed information about well known people as Lev Tolstoy, Nobel, Peter I, Leonardo Davinchi, Alfred Chichko, Einstein, Grimm brothers, Adolph Hitler, Mussolini and so on. I advise you to read “Golden Globe” magazine. Each number of this magazine is dedicated to the one country. And DVD with full information about history, culture, tradition also attached to the magazine. So, you have a chance to read, to watch and to hear at the same time.

3. MUSIC:

Sure, I do love to listen to music. Unfortunately, I can’t play. I like pop and National music.
You probably know about Mugham. It’s really specific music which belongs to our nation. Nowadays there’s new wave of music in Azerbaijan- combining pop and Mugham. Last year Azerbaijan took part in Eurovision musical competition. Our young singers sang the song where the pop, rock and opera music was combined with Mugham and it was very original and exiting composition.
I carry my IPod with me, it let me listen to music even when I’m out .I’m relaxing when I listen to music. I like Shakira, Beyonce, Beatles, Sarah Connor and so on.

4. TELEVISION:

I don’t watch TV so much. As a rule, every morning when we’re preparing to school (my parents to work) we watch morning news. During the day I like to watch sport, music programs. My favorite channels are “National Geography” and “Discovery” .Because all programs of these channels are about nature, animals, and unusual histories. We also never pass information programs, because it’s very important to know about all news in my country and all over the world.

5. VIDEO GAMES:

I don’t play any video games. I think that it's waste of time . I don’t know is that good or bad but I’m not interested in playing video games. I'm interested in other parts of media more.

6. COMPUTERS:

I use computer at home and at school. At school we do a lot of projects, presentations, learn programming languages. Recently we had a new project. The name of the project was “We are studying and teaching”. I have prepared presentation about “Scale of Notation”. At first, I learned everything about scale of notation myself. Then I had a chance to show this presentation and everybody liked it. I think that it was very helpful for them.
Now we are working on a new big project. We are preparing site about our school. All presentation, video clips created by our students during the year, whole information about us, our teachers and our school will be collected in this site. We’ll take part in competition between other schools of Azerbaijan. And I hope our school will be a WINNER!

7. INTERNET:

I spend much time on the internet. Internet helps me to save my time. And this is the only way to get any requested information immediately. Doing my home task I have to use internet to find needed information. Thank to internet I can contact my friends.
For the moment I use internet to participate in DOTCOM project. It’s very interesting and new for me. Thank you very much for that.

MY MEDIA PREFERENCES:

1.Computer

2.Internet

3.Newspapers/Magazines

4.TV

5.Books
6.Music
7.Video games

Music

Thank you for so interesting topic. Music takes the main part in our life.
Azeri music has deep roots in its culture. Historically Azerbaijan is famous for his music, I’d say classic Azeri music- “Muqam”. It’s really specific music which belongs to our nation. There are different kinds of instruments to perform Muqam: tar, kamancha, zurna, qaval. All these instruments are handmade.
I’d like to notice one thing. The Azerbaijan youth are interested in modern music which is very popular nowadays. I mean jazz, pop and rock music. But they love and always advert to our historical music- Muqam. Last year Azerbaijan took part in Eurovision musical competition. Our young singers sang the song where the pop, rock and opera music was combined with Muqam and it was very original and exiting composition.
I’m proud of our well-known Azeri composers. Most of them are famous all over the world. Uzeir Hacibeyov, Gara Garayev, Fikret Amirov, Vaqif Mustafazade are one of them.
I do want our music to be popular and recognized in other countries. Maybe you know Alim Qasimov, Aziza Mustafazade, and Sevda Alekperzade which have made their contribution in distribution of Azeri music all over the world.
Unfortunately, I don’t practice music professionally. But I like to listen to the music very much. It helps me to relax.

The Azerbaijan State Museum of Musical Culture

The State Museum of Azerbaijani Musical Culture was founded in 1967. Main objectives and policies of the Museum: collection, preservation, study, popularization and reactivation of the materials related to the history of the Azerbaijani music.There are approximately 40 thousands exhibits collected in the museum fund. Among them are such Azerbaijan national musical instruments as tar, kamancha, saz, daf, goshanaghara, zurna, ney as well as other musical instruments with specific features - cane-tar, cane-saz. Furthermore, the museum's collection contains gramophones, gramophone records, musical boxes, original music manuscripts (scores) of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, the founder of the Azerbaijan professional music, Bulbul, the founder of the national professional vocal art, and the famous composers Gara Garayev, Fikret Amirov and other distinguished music figures, personal belongings of the prominent musicians, posters, playbills, photographs, audio and video records, fine art exhibits, sheet music, books and other materials. All of them are valuable samples of the Azerbaijan national musical culture.