Jay Test Thread
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01-19-2017, 04:26 PM
Re: Jay Test Thread
"I want chicken, I want liver, Meow Mix, Meow Mix, please deliver" may be the reigning cat tune, but it apparently won't be for long.
Area man David Teie turned to crowdfunding to make dedicated music for cats. And with with three days still left to go in the campaign, he's raised more than $208,000.
Teie knows you're going to think this is some elaborate Onion prank, but it's not.
"I want to bring the beauty and comfort of music to as many species as possible," Teie explains on Kickstarter. "One day I'd like to calm caged whales and relax abused dogs, but first I need to create a sustainable business, one that sells animal music people will actually buy. Cats seemed like the obvious choice."
Teie, a cellist for the National Symphony Orchestra, and his feline symphonies were recently profiled in the Washington Post Magazine:
But first there will be commercial cats songs. Teie recently holed up in a Prague library for a month figuring out how best to appeal to our most persnickety pets, while his son reached out to the handlers of some of the Internet's most famous cat-lebrities to get them to test the songs—and act as their marketing campaign.
Clearly, they are on to something.
Area man David Teie turned to crowdfunding to make dedicated music for cats. And with with three days still left to go in the campaign, he's raised more than $208,000.
Teie knows you're going to think this is some elaborate Onion prank, but it's not.
"I want to bring the beauty and comfort of music to as many species as possible," Teie explains on Kickstarter. "One day I'd like to calm caged whales and relax abused dogs, but first I need to create a sustainable business, one that sells animal music people will actually buy. Cats seemed like the obvious choice."
Teie, a cellist for the National Symphony Orchestra, and his feline symphonies were recently profiled in the Washington Post Magazine:
Teie’s foray into cat music composition didn’t surprise his colleagues at the National Symphony Orchestra. An accomplished cellist, Teie began writing music for animals back in 2003 to demonstrate his universal theory of music: The idea that music taps directly into our emotional core by remixing the sounds that marinated our developing brains in the womb. It’s no coincidence, says Teie, that our mother’s resting pulse is about the same pace as music we find relaxing, and that our favorite instruments, like the violin, tend to hover around the range of her voice. That’s also true for other animals, but the particulars can change, Teie posited. For instance, with their high-pitched voices and fast pulse, monkeys are going to respond best to music that is quite a bit higher and faster than music for humans.
Clearly, they are on to something.
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01-20-2017, 07:36 AM
