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muted.io
Lil Beat Maker: Simple Online Beat-Making Machine
muted.io
1 min read · May 10th · A free online beat-making machine based on a circular timeline. Have fun creating simple drum loops and patterns with this easy web app.
Reader View · Shared by 76, including Stéphanie Walter
The Critic
Musical scores | Stephen Pollard
The Critic
6 min read · May 14th · Great passages of play evoke great music…
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youtube.com
Every time Heroes is played on movies and shows (Montage)
youtube.com
May 6th · Welcome back for another movie montage folks! Here's another montage showing all movies that play "Heroes", by David Bowie and Brian Eno, and the cover versi...
thesmartset.com
The Senior Song Book
thesmartset.com
~13 min read · May 10th · In 2014 my wife Dorothy and I — tired of snowdrifts, leaky roofs, and steep stairs — moved to Beaumont at Bryn Mawr, a retirement community owned by its re
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taniarascia.com
Building a Musical Instrument with the Web Audio API
taniarascia.com
~18 min read · May 10th · It's been a while since I've written anything due to some personal concerns that I might write about later, but don't worry, I'm still…
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justinehsmith.substack.com
Songs for Invertebrates
justinehsmith.substack.com
~18 min read · Apr 28th · Auto-Tune, Rhythm, and the Innateness of Music
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The Atlantic
A Stanford Psychologist Says He’s Cracked the Code of One-Hit Wonders
The Atlantic
3 min read · Apr 17th · What separates Blind Melon from Shania Twain?
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 145, including Esther Schindler, Simon C, Johannes Dornisch, Mike Davidson
Guardian music
‘That’s it? It’s over? I was 30. What a brutal business’: pop stars on life after the…
Guardian music
~15 min read · Apr 16th · Musicians from Bob Geldof to Robbie Williams and Lisa Maffia reveal what they did – and how they felt – after the hits dried up and the crowds vanished
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 121, including Jeremiah Owyang jowyang.eth, Austin Kleon, Neil Lee, Simon C, Esther Schindler
Washingtonian
The Untold Story of the White House’s Record Collection
Washingtonian
8 min read · May 3rd · Jimmy Carter’s grandson, John Chuldenko, is unlocking White House mysteries. The record collection is an archive of the nation's music taste back in the 70's.
Reader View · Shared by 114, including Bjorn Larsen
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Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5 (Official Video)
kendricklamar.lnk.to
May 9th · Go to Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5 (Official Video).
The New Statesman
How music helps us to feel
The New Statesman
6 min read · May 4th · Two new books about our relationship to song offer reassuring proof that there will always be new ways to write about music.
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The New Yorker
John Darnielle Wants to Tell You a Story
The New Yorker
6 min read · Apr 24th · The Mountain Goats front man and novelist discusses art as labor, the value of religious faith, the beauty of Chaucer, and, more or less, the secret to happiness.
Reader View · Shared by 90, including Yves Mulkers, Ashley C. Ford, Austin Kleon
Guardian music
‘There was an enormous amount of drugs being taken’: Graham Nash on groupies, feuds, divorce and ego
Guardian music
~12 min read · May 3rd · The Crosby, Stills and Nash singer on the wild early years, Joni Mitchell, his former bandmates and why his children no longer speak to him
The New York Times
Henry Winkler Breaks the Curse of Stardom
The New York Times
20+ min read · Apr 27th · Now in his 70s, the pop culture icon has found his true calling on “Barry,” as the king of character actors.
Reader View · Shared by 80, including Sally Kohn, Felix M
muted.io
Lil Beat Maker: Simple Online Beat-Making Machine
muted.io
1 min read · May 10th · A free online beat-making machine based on a circular timeline. Have fun creating simple drum loops and patterns with this easy web app.
Reader View · Shared by 76, including Stéphanie Walter
The New Yorker
The Pop Song That’s Uniting India and Pakistan
The New Yorker
5 min read · May 9th · The writer and musician Ali Sethi has created an unconventional hit with “Pasoori.”
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Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds your new music
HackerNoon | Will NOT Insert LINKS in HN stories
9 min read · From 2017 · The science behind personalized music recommendations
Reader View · Shared by 896, including Chris Schultz ✌️, Howard Getson, Konrad Lischka, designshard, Mara Averick, elpocas, Joe Germuska, Helmi, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖, Dominik Grolimund, Danny Prol, Paulmears, Greg Meyer, David Smooke, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Eric L. Barnes, Michelle Ufford, Tris Hussey, FactorDaily, Thomas Power
The Pudding
How Bad Is Your Spotify?
The Pudding
2020-12-22 · Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music.
Shared by 778, including Matt Daniels, Jane Manchun Wong, Ash Furrow, Frederik Vanhoutte - Winterbloed, Chris Messina, Anna Grigoryan 🇱🇹, Stuart A. Thompson, Cliff Bleszinski, Chris Isak , Artnome, Dr. Alec Couros, Meltem Demirors, Warren Whitlock, Biz Carson, Sam Soffes, Walter Hickey, Dirk von Gehlen, feilding cage, Kelsey D. Atherton, Rami Ismail (رامي)
OpenAI
Jukebox
OpenAI
8 min read · From 2020 · 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 releasing the model weights and code, along…
Reader View · Shared by 502, including Paolo Pedercini, Brian Roemmele, Tom Raftery 🇮🇪🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦💉💉💉, Mario Klingemann 🇺🇦, Ilya Sutskever, Mathew Ingram, Chris Messina, Danielle 👩🏻💻, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Ryan Hoover, дэн, Lukas Biewald, Mike Tamir, PhD, Brian Ahier, Christian Müller, Kevin Kelly, Richard Joerges, Vincent Boucher 💎, Joel Califa, Rami Ismail (رامي)
Quartz
The magic that makes Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists so damn good
Quartz
9 min read · From 2017 · Thirty songs that feel like a gift from a music-loving friend, but were cooked up by an algorithm.
Reader View · Shared by 444, including Moritz Meenen, David Bauer, Lorenz König, Chris Messina, Data Science Renee, Jon Thompson, Stowe Boyd, Adam Pasick, adrianleb.eth, ThomNagy, Patrick Scheuerer, Mathias Möller, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy ⛱, Lelio Simi, Ben Hibbs, Mike Ivars, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Dominik Grolimund, ᴄʟᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ sᴄʜᴡᴀʀᴢ, Rodrigo Franco (Caffo)
TED-Ed
What should you listen to when you want to focus?
TED-Ed
2021-11-20
Shared by 424, including Johannes Dornisch, Albert Ràfols
heardle.app
Like Wordle, but for Music
heardle.app
Mar 4th · Guess the song from the intro in as few tries as possible.
Shared by 407, including Scott Monty, Amber Naslund, Dr Adam Rutherford, Lisa Loeffler, RACHELLE DENÉ POTH | @ThriveinEDU #ARVR #AI, Yo Mama and Yo Cousin Too, Alan Sepinwall, Kevin Marks, Chris Strub 🇺🇦, Chris Schilling, Arlan 👊🏾, TVMoJoe, Augie Ray, Mark Anderson FCCT 💛✨👨🏽🏫🏆🌈, Monica Burns, Ed.D. #EdTech, Alex Selby-Boothroyd, Paul O'Brien, Dirk von Gehlen, debbie millman, Joshua Benton
Spotify Engineering
Spotify engineering culture (part 1)
Spotify Engineering
~13 min read · 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, and there's a lot of variation from squad to squad. So the stuff in the video isn't all true for all squads all the time, but it appears to be mostly true…
Reader View · Shared by 382, including blinch, Andreas Spiegler, Axel Hammarbäck, Bernhard Huessy, Lorenz König, Patrick Scheuerer, Marco Unternaehrer, Matthias Lampe, Eliska Hutnikova, Michael Duergner, Luzius Meisser, Pat Kua, Sacha Roger, Chris Messina, Stephanie A Kowalski, David Luescher, Will Hoag 🏔‼️, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Ryan Boren, Dominik Grolimund
WIRED
All the Ways Spotify Tracks You—and How to Stop It
WIRED
2 min read · 2021-08-07 · Whether you're listening to workout music or a "cooking dinner" playlist, the app can show you ads based on your mood and what you're doing right now.
Shared by 379, including Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Ian M Calvert, Tactical Tech, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Digg, Samuel Hu, Thomas Power, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Marsha Collier, Tim, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, Chris Isak , Backchannel, Privacy Matters 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺🌻, Steven
Brain Pickings
How Playing Music Benefits Your Brain More than Any Other Activity
Brain Pickings
2 min read · Mar 19th · “Playing music is the brain’s equivalent of a full-body workout.”
Reader View · Shared by 352, including Leslie Wolk, Ines Bieler
