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Billboard: Swiss Digital Licensing Org Targets Twitter for Copyright Infringement

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Billboard: Swiss Digital Licensing Org Targets Twitter for Copyright Infringement . “SUISA Digital Licensing is suing Twitter International in Munich District Court for copyright infringement on X, the online platform formerly known as Twitter. The suit alleges that music compositions controlled by SUISA Digital are found on the platform, and that the company has made no effort to license them or act promptly to remove the infringing content.”

A Composer’s Helper: Using AI to Create New Harmonies (Stanford University)

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Stanford University: A Composer’s Helper: Using AI to Create New Harmonies. “The music transformer, built using the generative pretrained Transformer architecture (GPT) that powers language models like ChatGPT, facilitates a co-creation process where composers iteratively collaborate with the tool, choosing what to write themselves and what to delegate to AI. This approach allows composers to keep fragments of the generated music that they like while discarding the rest. The Anticipatory Music Transformer focuses on symbolic music rather than musical audio.”

Google Blog: Create a festive jingle with instruments from around the world

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Google Blog: Create a festive jingle with instruments from around the world. “Why not create your own jingle this festive season? Instrument Playground is a new Google AI powered experiment from Simon Doury, Artist in Residence at Google Arts & Culture Lab, that lets you create music inspired by instruments from around the globe.”

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’ Wrapped Video Blasts Spotify’s Artist Payout System: ‘Enough to Get Myself a Nice Sandwich’ (Billboard)

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Billboard: ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’ Wrapped Video Blasts Spotify’s Artist Payout System: ‘Enough to Get Myself a Nice Sandwich’. “While everyone else is busy sharing their Spotify Wrapped lists on their socials this week, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic took some time on Wednesday (Nov. 29) in his Wrapped video to share a different story. ‘It’s my understanding that I had over 80 million streams on Spotify this year,’ Yankovic said in his clip. ‘So, if I’m doing the math right that means I earned $12. Enough to get myself a nice sandwich at a restaurant. So, from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support, and thanks for the sandwich.'”

San Diego Reader: Jim MacDonald’s cellphone captures over 2,000 local performances

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New-to-me, from San Diego Reader: Jim MacDonald’s cellphone captures over 2,000 local performances. “Just a Fan Recording Local Music is the name of Jim MacDonald’s YouTube channel; it boasts over 2000 cell phone videos of live performances by local artists, 586 subscribers, and around 191,000 views. MacDonald resides in Ocean Beach, and in 2019, he started walking over to the Farmers Market bandstage on Wednesdays to check out performers like Yvonne Brown of the Kings.”

Music Radar: This web app randomly samples thousands of YouTube videos to create a playable grid of loops, giving you endless sonic inspiration

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Music Radar: This web app randomly samples thousands of YouTube videos to create a playable grid of loops, giving you endless sonic inspiration. “Built by Technology Greg, Sonic Garbage pulls over 3000 randomly generated YouTube audio snippets into a colour-coded grid and sorts them by ‘audio energy’ (volume?) or length, giving you a playable set of randomized samples that is tons of fun to mess around with. Sure, the majority of them may not sound great, but play around for a few minutes and it’s remarkably easy to stumble on combinations of loops that fit together just right and create something unexpectedly musical.” It really is, I tried it. It was amazing to me how much random audio actually made half-decent samples.

Vice: It Sure Looks Like a Hacking Campaign Messed Up People’s Spotify Wrapped

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Vice: It Sure Looks Like a Hacking Campaign Messed Up People’s Spotify Wrapped. “Every year, Spotify Wrapped provides a rundown of everything its users listened to over the past year. It’s a fun, and sometimes embarrassing, reminder of the music that dominated your life. Excitement turned to confusion this year when some users got their Wrapped roundup only to discover their lists taken over by an artist they weren’t listening to: Lil Durk.”

BusinessWire: GRAMMY Museum® Grant Program Awards $200,000 for Music Research and Sound Preservation (PRESS RELEASE)

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BusinessWire: GRAMMY Museum® Grant Program Awards $200,000 for Music Research and Sound Preservation (PRESS RELEASE). “The GRAMMY Museum® Grant Program announced today that $200,000 in grants will be awarded to 14 recipients in the United States to help facilitate a range of research on a variety of subjects, as well as support a number of archiving and preservation programs.”

Make Tech Easier: 7 of the Best Spotify Alternatives for Music Streaming

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Make Tech Easier: 7 of the Best Spotify Alternatives for Music Streaming . “Spotify’s one of the top music streaming services, but it’s facing some serious competition. But, Spotify might not always have the artists you want or even the quality you prefer. If you’re ready to try something new, check out some of the best Spotify alternatives to see which one fits your needs the best.”

From Ringo to Robbie: Nairn photographer’s 50 years capturing music legends (Press & Journal)

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Press & Journal: From Ringo to Robbie: Nairn photographer’s 50 years capturing music legends. “The Marnie Archives are the work of a man who has been completely uncompromising in his choice of life path, sacrificing financial security, relationships and even home life for his craft…. Marc’s vast archive was nearly lost when the basement where they were stored was flooded. Now he’s trying to preserve the prints by digitising them for posterity. He reckons 90% of them have never yet been seen.”

Canada Newswire: Canada Black Music Archives (CBMA) Launches As The Definitive Digital Repository Of Black Canadian Musical Heritage

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Canada Newswire: Canada Black Music Archives (CBMA) Launches As The Definitive Digital Repository Of Black Canadian Musical Heritage (PRESS RELEASE). “The CBMA aims to fill a crucial gap in Canada’s historical narrative by providing a digital platform accessible to all, highlighting the remarkable contributions, stories, and legacies of Black musicians across various genres.”

NASA: NASA Telescope Data Becomes Music You Can Play

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NASA: NASA Telescope Data Becomes Music You Can Play. “Since 2020, the “sonification” project at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Center has translated the digital data taken by telescopes into notes and sounds. This process allows the listener to experience the data through the sense of hearing instead of seeing it as images, a more common way to present astronomical data. A new phase of the sonification project takes the data into different territory. Working with composer Sophie Kastner, the team has developed versions of the data that can be played by musicians.”

Purdue University Research News: AI knows the score — and it could help instrumentalists make beautiful music

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Purdue University Research News: AI knows the score — and it could help instrumentalists make beautiful music. “This project will develop and integrate techniques from computer vision, natural language processing and audio analysis to create two AI-enabled tools for string music performers. The first tool, the Evaluator, aims to improve individual practice and performance by analyzing audio and video of a musician, then comparing it to digitized music scores and a database of video performances…. The second tool, the Companion, is intended to play the part of absent instruments in an ensemble by using audio analysis of performances to match tempo and style of the musicians.”

‘No one else is saving it’: the fight to protect a historic music collection (The Guardian)

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The Guardian: ‘No one else is saving it’: the fight to protect a historic music collection. “The ARChive of Contemporary Music, which houses more than 90m songs and is supported by names such as Martin Scorsese, is in need of a new home.”

Rolling Stone: Internet Sleuths Want to Track Down This Mystery Pop Song. They Only Have 17 Seconds of It

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Rolling Stone: Internet Sleuths Want to Track Down This Mystery Pop Song. They Only Have 17 Seconds of It. “Before the days of apps like Shazam, trying to identify an unfamiliar song was a team effort. WatZatSong, a social network dating back to 2006 (the early days of Web 2.0) facilitated that process on a global scale. Users could upload tracks that had stumped them, and crowdsource guesses about where it had come from. Some mysteries were swiftly solved; others were tougher to crack. But it wasn’t until 2021 that WatZatSong received what would become its most infamous and enduring submission, from a contributor in Spain going by the handle ‘carl92.'”