The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | Music For Algorithms: In Search Of Eno’s Ambient Vision In A Spotify Era http://thequietus.com/articles/25532-brian-eno-ambient-music

The Quietus | Opinion | The Quietus Essay | Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Musical Challenges to Copyright(ed) Culture http://thequietus.com/articles/25494-music-copyright-jamaica-dub

“Musical Steganography: Hiding Things in Music” by Scott Fradkin - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLXqZVHrFa4

Meet Bill Wurtz, the Internet Musical Genius You’ve Never Heard Of - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/meet-bill-wurtz-the-internet-musical-genius-youve-never-heard-of?curator=MusicREDEF

Bad idea of the day: turn music into text by substituting note frequency with word frequency

Bad idea of the day: A video game adaptation of Lethem’s Gun With Occasional Music in the style of the Monkey Island series, with a mechanic involving mixing custom blends of forgetol/regretol/etc & replacing people’s stashes with them.

“Generating Music From Emotion (and other experiments)” by Hannah Davis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpiN2DZxU_4

You’d think that somebody writing for NME would know that ‘Daddy’s Car’ isn’t the first AI-written song. (Even if the earliest example they can think of is from Songsmith & they don’t recognize that Bach was doing generative music.)

They used Saint Pepsi as hold music, not Macintosh Plus. No one noticed.

Neoliberalism, World Music and Corporate Aesthetics - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sCRcfYRslg

GitHub - flipcoder/textbeat: text music sequencer and midi shell with vim playback https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat

Bad idea of the day: a movie musical called Greece, for extra confusion

DJ-SDKs Programming Music - rtmp://codevoid.de/live

The Dying Art of Anime Music Videos - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qcuJM1H_lQ

Inside Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases - Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/vaporwave-floppy-disk-trend-w521790

Inside the calming communities of YouTube’s lo-fi hip hop scene | Dazed http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/40366/1/youtube-lo-fi-hip-hop-study-relax-24-7-livestream-scene

‘Sci-Fi Music Felt Like a Vast, Interconnected Mythology’: An Interview with Jason Heller | Hazlitt https://hazlitt.net/feature/sci-fi-music-felt-vast-interconnected-mythology-interview-jason-heller

Inside the Songs of Our Lives: ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ http://www.realclearlife.com/music/video-killed-the-radio-star/

Band name of the day: functional music

Kevin’s Meandering Mind | A Whale’s Lantern: The Oral History of a Musical Collaboration (part two) http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/04/15/a-whales-lantern-the-oral-history-of-a-musical-collaboration-part-two/

Kevin’s Meandering Mind | A Whale’s Lantern: The Oral History of a Musical Collaboration (part one) http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/04/14/a-whales-lantern-the-oral-history-of-a-musical-collaboration-part-one/

DadaBots: Socially Automated Dadaist Music Remix Bots on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/72277348

Bad idea of the day: use those ear-mounted accelerometers that normally wake people who are dozing off at the wheel to instead redden the display, replace desktop background with surreal and dreamlike images, fade in quiet calming ambient music, raise the thermostat

Nintendo Music Scene: Chiptune and Game-Rock Heavyweights https://tedium.co/2018/05/17/nintendo-nes-chiptune-music-scene/

The protest songs that drove the Wobblies a century ago are still lighting fires | Music Feature | Chicago Reader https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/little-red-songbook-iww-wobblies-joe-hill-may-day/Content?oid=46456670

Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This… http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/

I wonder if the recent Charlie Wartzel-spawned increase in the use of the term ‘infocalypse’ will affect the popularity of the music I’ve been releasing under that name for the past eleven years…

With Musical Cryptography, Composers Can Hide Messages in Their Melodies - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/musical-cryptography-codes

Band name of the day: multiple music

Infocalypse - Music For Spaceports | Jamendo Music - Free music downloads https://www.jamendo.com/album/175213/music-for-spaceports/null

Early Legal Streaming Services: Why Pressplay and MusicNet … https://tedium.co/2018/01/30/legal-music-streaming-history/?utm_source=Tedium

MCD | Making the Music of the Mazg https://www.mcdbooks.com/features/sourdough

A Language Made Of Music - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyC4lLTOyL8

Neural Style Transfer for Musical Melodies – Ashis Pati https://ashispati.github.io//style-transfer/

DIY Media – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, cultur… http://ajroach42.com/diy-media/

The story of early tape music, microsound, … http://cdm.link/2017/12/the-story-of-early-tape-music-microsound-and-a-eurorack-resurrection/

Dancing in the Street // Silent Music Video - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkhIjG0DKc

The Secret Chord That Makes Pop Music Sound Happy - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/seventh-chord-happy-pop-song-music-notes

How Generative Music Works https://teropa.info/loop/

The Prehistory of Music | Lapham’s Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/prehistory-music

Music is in your brain and your body and your life | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/music-is-in-your-brain-and-your-body-and-your-life

Brown Acid: the sound that rock forgot | Music | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/31/brown-acid-rock-lance-barresi

This cybernetic synth contains a brain grown from the inventor‘s cells - CDM Create Digital Music http://cdm.link/2017/05/cybernetic-synth-contains-brain-grown-inventors-cells/

How 1977 Broke All the Rules and Changed Music Forever | Consequence of Sound https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/10/how-1977-broke-all-the-rules-and-changed-music-forever/?curator=MusicREDEF

The Pitch https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-halt-and-catch-fire-used-punk-music-to-empower-its-female-characters/

Failed Histories of Electronic Music https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/failed-histories-of-electronic-music/1B1F7D957FAFF355B5CD797185F4EEFD/core-reader

Inside the Dreamy Nightmare of Mother!’s Music-Free Soundscape | Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/09/mother-movie-jennifer-lawrence-darren-aronofsky-score-johann-johannsson

BBC Radio 6 Music - KLF Special http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b091zz3q

Anyone Can Make Weird Music: A Guide, Vague then Specific | 🔴 N̵̷IS̵̷ͨͪH̷ͧͦI̸͓ͫͭK̵̷͓I͓ P̷ͭRͮE̷̸̜S̵̥T̵̷̻̍̍ͯI̸̷͉͡G̵̍̍ͯE̸ ⚫️ https://nishikiprestige.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/anyone-can-make-weird-music-a-guide-vague-then-specific/

The Devo De-Evolution Of Golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez | Only A Game http://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/08/25/golf-music-casale-mothersbaugh