9 Best Articles in 2020
HackerNoon
Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds your new music
HackerNoon
9 min read · 872 saves · From 2017 · The science behind personalized music recommendations
OpenAI
Jukebox
OpenAI
7 min read · 457 saves · Apr 30th · We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We’re…
Quartz
The magic that makes Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists so damn good
Quartz
8 min read · 437 saves · From 2017 · Thirty songs that feel like a gift from a music-loving friend, but were cooked up by an algorithm.
Spotify Engineering
Spotify engineering culture (part 1)
Spotify Engineering
~12 min read · 377 saves · From 2015 · Here's part 1 of short animated video describing our engineering culture (here's part 2). This is a journey in progress, not a journey completed,…
The New York Times
The Day the Music Burned
The New York Times
321 saves · 2019-06-11 · Jody Rosen · It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008…
medium.com
Design Doesn’t Scale.
medium.com
8 min read · 291 saves · From 2016 · Stanley Wood · Design Doesn’t Scale is a statement that has bothered me for the last four-years.
NPR
How The Brain Teases Apart A Song's Words And Music
NPR
2 min read · 222 saves · Feb 27th · Jon Hamilton · Brain scans show that when people listen to songs, an area in the left hemisphere decodes speech-like sounds while one on the right processes…
Spotify Engineering
Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data
Spotify Engineering
4 min read · 214 saves · Feb 18th · The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a detailed…
Ableton
Learning Synths
Ableton
210 saves · 2019-06-25 · Learn about synthesizers via Ableton’s interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth…
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The New York Times
Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano
The New York Times
8 min read · 85 saves · Oct 21st · Nate Chinen · The pathbreaking musician reveals the health issues that make it unlikely he will ever again perform in public.
The Verge
Google’s new ‘hum to search’ feature can figure out the song that’s stuck in your head
The Verge
1 min read · 78 saves · Oct 15th · Chaim Gartenberg · Google uses machine learning to identify songs you whistle or hum
The Atlantic
Bruce Springsteen and the Art of Aging Well
The Atlantic
6 min read · 37 saves · Oct 23rd · David Brooks · What the happiest Springsteen album in decades can teach us about Joe Biden, the wisdom of maturity, and the meaning of life
The New York Times
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Baroque Music
The New York Times
6 min read · 31 saves · Oct 7th · Listen to spirited, sublime works by Bach, Handel, Purcell and others.
Guardian music
Demi Lovato has made the most damning protest song of the Trump era
Guardian music
4 min read · 30 saves · Oct 15th · By facing the president head-on when other artists have been oblique, and confronting him on a human level, the US pop star’s song Commander…
The New York Times
He Was a Rising Jazz Pianist. Then His N.Y.C. Dreams Were Shattered.
The New York Times
7 min read · 28 saves · Oct 22nd · John Leland · The police said an attack on the pianist was not a hate crime, but social media disagreed. Now he’s considering a return to Japan.
Vulture
Eddie Van Halen Set an Unprecedented Standard for the Art of Guitar Music
Vulture
4 min read · 25 saves · Oct 8th · He imagined a sound and then set about chipping away at whatever hurdles, creative or technical, that got between him and the riff.
Guardian music
Bail out our musicians or risk losing them for ever, say classical music stars
Guardian music
4 min read · 20 saves · Oct 25th · Vanessa Thorpe · Conductor Sir Simon Rattle and violinist Tamsin Little are among those warning that struggling artists will be forced to give up
