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Download Music From the Free Music Archive Before It Shuts Down https://lifehacker.com/download-the-music-you-want-from-the-free-music-archive-1830320515
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
- gears that revolve and levers that shift, concepts rotated and slotted into each other↵- brute force pattern matching: anything as metaphor for anything, the music you’re listening to as body or story or building
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
📚 Finished reading Great Music of the 20th Century by Robert Greenberg
📚 Finished reading Great Music of the 20th Century by Robert Greenberg
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/
The constant freezing gale from the night side forces most life on the edge into well-lit wind shadows, but also powers mills, musical instruments, even computers based on Kármán vortex logic
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/
certain step sequences recreate popular melodies and wear visible paths into the floor, sometimes groups will try dances so their bodies modulate the ambient sound; the temple as musical instrument
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
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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
at iteration 7, some people do a spontaneous choir and it becomes a tradition to refresh it every 10 iterations so it doesn’t disappear into the noise and other musical graffiti
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/
music beamed directly into the auditory cortex, freed from sound waves the way electronic music frees it from instruments
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/
Heaven schisms over whether to allow robot souls in, now it’s Heaven Classic™ and CyberHeaven (which among others has internet speeds measured in hard drives per second, self-recharging batteries, the best electronic music
The Prehistory of Music | Lapham’s Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/prehistory-music