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By Sam Proud

News from the places and spaces where Music + Technology = Innovation

Jaguar taps singer Dua Lipa in music tech collaboration | AdAge
Ad Age - Alexandra Jardine
Jaguar is working with the British-Kosovan singer Dua Lipa to promote its PACE range of SUVs in a music collaboration that will let fans remix their …
Deep Learning
An AI system for editing music in videos
mit.edu - Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL
Amateur and professional musicians alike may spend hours pouring over YouTube clips to figure out exactly how to play certain parts of their favorite …
I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye
The Atlantic - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Kanye West wants freedom—white freedom. I could only have seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely 7 years old, and cable had not
New App Is Basically Shazam for Album Covers
Pitchfork - by Sam Sodomsky
Ever wanted to Shazam an album cover? Glitch’s new Record Player app, designed by Patrick Weaver, might do the trick. By connecting the Google Cloud Vision API and the Spotify API, the Record Player app
Unbundling The Song: Inside The Next Wave Of Recorded Music's Disruption
Forbes - Cherie Hu
One can summarize all of the recent technological disruptions in the music industry as a continuous ungrouping, and regrouping, of content. Napster and iTunes ungrouped albums into individual tracks for
MelodyVR Launches With Plenty of Funding & Major Label Deals -- But Can It Survive VR's Trough of Disillusionment?
billboard.com - Cortney Harding
For many music fans, it's a moment they can only dream about -- standing on-stage with one of their favorite artists. As the lights go up and the …
Instagram code reveals upcoming music feature
TechCrunch - Josh Constine
Instagram is preparing to let you add music to your Stories, judging by code found inside its Android app. “music stickers” could let you search for and add a song to your posts, thanks to licensing deals
Yet more evidence Apple is working on AR glasses for mixed reality
bgr.com - Chris Smith
Apple is expected to launch its own pair of mixed reality glasses at some point in the coming years, a new wearable device that would complement the …
Grace Jones on a Lifetime of Doing Whatever She Pleases
The New York Times - By MELENA RYZIK
Grace Jones was sitting in an opulent hotel suite in Paris, naked underneath a fur coat, opining about her act. “The performer, out there, takes a risk,” she said, sipping Champagne. “It’s a lonely place.
The odds of an artist becoming a 'top tier' earner on Spotify today? Less than 1%.
musicbusinessworldwide.com
The MBW Review offers our take on some of the music biz’s biggest recent goings-on. This time, we scrutinize Daniel Ek’s presentation at Spotify’s …
Illegible Spaces 2 by ripsawridge
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Music
Are Artists Finally Profiting From the Streaming Era?
theringer.com - Victor Luckerson
Lil Pump is among a handful of young rappers earning big paydays as the record industry’s revenue surges. But there are still lots of musicians …
NSynth Super
nsynthsuper.withgoogle.com
NSynth Super is part of an ongoing experiment by Magenta: a research project within Google that explores how machine learning tools can help artists …
How bands are escaping the music industry snake pit
bbc.co.uk - By Chris Johnston
Music streaming - playing songs over the internet "on demand" - is widely regarded as having saved the music industry, following an era of music piracy marked by falling CD and vinyl sales. Yet songwriters
Midifinity
grindselect.com
Brian Eno's AR experience lets you play synth in mid-air
Wired UK - Victoria Turk
Bloom: Open Space/Microsoft In an old carburetted water gas plant in Amsterdam, a small group of people wander slowly inside a circle demarcated by …
Oculus Rift
Oculus Rift reveals a new VR DJ app, Reality Decks
mixmag.net - Cameron Holbrook
Designed and programed by Oculus Rift, the application Reality Decks is the latest addition to the new world virtual reality DJing. Focusing on …
Music
What Your Go-to Hookup Music Says About You
VICE - Noisey UK Staff
The Smiths? Who hurt you? Tell yourself whatever story you need to in order to make today as painless as possible. “Valentine’s Day is a corporate circle-jerk created by an ad exec sweating coke pit-stains
How to Be a Responsible Music Fan in the Age of Streaming
Pitchfork - by Damon Krukowski
In 2012, I wrote a piece for this website breaking down the payments my first band, Galaxie 500, was receiving from streaming services, which were just starting to become a dominant force in the music
Audio-visual
Can Fine Art Thrive On Spotify? Sofia Ek, Wife to CEO Daniel, Tests Waters With New Audiovisual Project
billboard.com - Cherie Hu
Ahead of its impending IPO, Spotify is chasing maximum accessibility and appeal for media creators and listeners alike. This ideal seems to be …
Artificial Intelligence
War Against The Machines: How AI Is Changing The Way We Make Music
Electronic Beats - Telekom
Friday, January 12 marked the date of Flow Machines’ first musical release. Spearheaded by the highly venerated French composer Benoit Carré, the 15-track pop album entitled Hello World—a nod to the text
Blendwave
blendwave.net
Imogen Heap partners with Viberate
iq-mag.net
Two of the earliest adopters of the blockchain in music, Grammy-winning artist Imogen Heap and live music marketplace Viberate, have announced their …
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theconditionalorchestra.com
The coolest music gadgets at NAMM 2018
The Verge - Dani Deahl
Hacky solutions were king Anaheim’s National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) show featured plenty of traditional instruments, but as always, there was also a lot of cool music tech. From pro DJ to
Sonos is fighting for an open internet to save music
The FADER - By Opheli Garcia Lawler
Sonos, will be closing their Flagship Soho store on January 28 to send a message to congress to save net neutrality protections. They chose the night …
A Eulogy for the Headphone Jack
medium.com
Charlie HoeyBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 20, 2018 Sometime in the mid-2000s, I was a freelance web developer in Philadelphia with some pretty …
In the age of algorithms, would you hire a personal shopper to do your music discovery for you?
The Verge - Kaitlyn Tiffany
Debop is a boutique service offering 10-song custom playlists for $125 a pop Deb Oh wants to make you a playlist — a very expensive and pretty good one, based on a winding questionnaire and her encyclopedic
Rave culture is making its move onto the blockchain
Wired UK - Ben Vickers and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Señor Salme In one sense, the rave scene has always been encrypted. In its heyday, when news of illicit parties spread by word of mouth, you just …