September 24, 2023

Notes and tones: New record, website showcase greatness of the late Mulgrew Miller (Columbia Daily Tribune)

Columbia Daily Tribune: Notes and tones: New record, website showcase greatness of the late Mulgrew Miller. “It was with a great deal of pleasure — I certainly could tell I was wearing a full-faced smile — when about 10 days ago, I received texts, Facebook messages and an email or two, each letting me know that Aleta Eubanks, the wife of trumpeter Duane Eubanks, had received permission from Tanya Miller, wife of the late pianist Mulgrew Miller, to launch an ‘all things’ Mulgrew Miller website.”

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September 24, 2023

Yale Library: Rare collection of recordings by Anthony Braxton enters library’s digital collections

Yale Library: Rare collection of recordings by Anthony Braxton enters library’s digital collections. “The Irving S. Gilmore Music Library partnered with the Tri-Centric Foundation to digitally preserve and provide online access to a treasure trove of rare archival material: 751 audio and video recordings by Anthony Braxton, one of the most prominent and ground-breaking composers and musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries.”

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September 15, 2023

Geeks are Sexy: A Century-Old Music Machine That Simultaneously Plays a Piano and Three Violins

Geeks are Sexy: A Century-Old Music Machine That Simultaneously Plays a Piano and Three Violins. “At first glance, it may appear to be just a player piano, but this creation from the early 20th century hails from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and offers a unique musical experience. What sets it apart is its ability to simultaneously play not only a piano but also three violins. In its time, this innovation was nothing short of revolutionary.”

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September 9, 2023

Engadget: The AI-generated fake Drake and The Weeknd track is ‘not eligible’ for a Grammy

Engadget: The AI-generated fake Drake and The Weeknd track is ‘not eligible’ for a Grammy. “Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. is setting the record straight. After Variety reported earlier this week that an AI-generated track echoing the voices of Drake and The Weeknd would be considered for a Grammy Award, Mason is insisting that’s not the case. The track, Heart on My Sleeve, was created and submitted for consideration by someone using the pseudonym ‘Ghostwriter.’ The song features lyrics written by Ghostwriter but imitates the voices of the rappers without consent.”

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September 8, 2023

How-To Geek: Duolingo Wants to Give You Music Lessons, Too

How-To Geek: Duolingo Wants to Give You Music Lessons, Too . “Duolingo has announced that it will soon be rolling out a music teaching experience. With it, Duolingo says that you’ll have hundreds of tiny lessons that will teach you, along the way, everything about musical notes and how you can play music — the company says that users will have access to a library of over 200 songs.”

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September 7, 2023

Mashable: Google launches incredible online exhibition celebrating Black British music

Mashable: Google launches incredible online exhibition celebrating Black British music. “Entitled Union Black, the online exhibition explores the various pioneers, innovators, and movements that have deeply and undeniably influenced British culture as a whole. Through vintage photographs, historical documentaries, contemporary interviews, and other multimedia stories, Union Black presents a comprehensive and extraordinary retelling of those who have shaped the fabric of the British music scene.”

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August 25, 2023

Jewish Herald-Voice: Klezmer Institute awarded NEH grant

Jewish Herald-Voice: Klezmer Institute awarded NEH grant. “The Klezmer Archive project is creating a universally accessible digital archival tool for interaction, discovery and research on available information about klezmer music and its network of contemporary and historical people. Taking individual melodies as the primary artifact, the digital archive will integrate existing tools and archival methods in novel ways to facilitate search and discovery rooted in the needs of its contemporary heritage community.”

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August 23, 2023

Mashable: Fyre Festival 2 tickets are on sale if you can believe it

Mashable: Fyre Festival 2 tickets are on sale if you can believe it. “Billy McFarland, the co-organizer of the now-ridiculed 2017 disaster of an event, announced that tickets are on sale for Fyre Festival II, supposedly set to take place at the end of 2024. McFarland spent four years behind bars on multiple counts of fraud after the festival, located on on the Bahamian island of Great Exuma, was deemed a scam, with McFarland duping investors and customers out of $26 million.”

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August 22, 2023

Newswise: Rediscovering the joy of music collection

Newswise: Rediscovering the joy of music collection. “A series of three studies led by Prof. Ofer Bergman from Bar-Ilan University in Israel has uncovered a fascinating relationship between music collection and listening enjoyment in the era of streaming music. The studies shed light on the impact of streaming applications on the subjective evaluation of music and suggest that rediscovering the act of music collecting can significantly enhance the overall listening experience.”

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August 22, 2023

Discovered on Mastodon: BluegrassArchive

Discovered on Mastodon: BluegrassArchive.com ( https://bluegrassarchive.com/ ). This Web site is plain as plain (just fine!) and filled with music. It’s a list of bluegrass music artists and live concerts for which you can get recordings. Click on the name of the artist and you’ll get a directory list of folders, one per concert. The folders I looked at had concerts divided up into songs. The audio files are in FLAC format. I looked up Carolina Chocolate Drops, and they had dozens of concerts available.

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