MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #14

Unfortunately, Monday’s meeting did not result in a productive discussion about how to protect users’ rights. Proposals made by COMMUNIA and Studio71 on how to strike a balance between the rights of users and the interests of creators and other rightholders were largely ignored by a coalition of major rightholders from both the music and the audio-visual sectors.

In the world of live coding, Alex McLean is a prime mover. His open source TidalCycles software is used by musicians across the world to code music quickly and dynamically in real time. He co-founded the Algorave movement, bringing programming out of obscurity and onto the dancefloor.

A little over a decade ago, when Twitter was still a place where it felt possible to hurl one’s thoughts into the ether without any sense that they might have Real World Ramifications, I tweeted my views on the latest single by US warbler Jordin Sparks. It was, shall we say, not quite up there with her 21st century cultural high water mark Battlefield.

The company claims to be “the first full-service record label built on AI-music discovery” and is operated by “technologists, A&Rs, producers, and creatives” including those previously employed by Universal, Sony/ATV, BMG, and Capitol, and who worked with the likes of Ariana Grande, Shawn Mendes, and David Guetta.

This essay was originally commissioned by online electronic music magazine and community platform Resident Advisor for its 2010–2019 End of the Decade run of features. Upon reading the essay…

SoundCloud will take a $75 million shot in the arm from satellite-radio giant Sirius XM Holdings in exchange for a minority stake and two board seats at the audio-sharing platform, the companies said.

Warner Music Group is going to IPO. Right time, right place but choppy industry waters ahead.

From toxic wastewater to greenhouse gas emissions, the boom in vinyl has dangerous effects – but streaming isn’t as clean an alternative as it looks

As the music economy has continued to grow and change over the last decade, bands and artists not have more access than ever to metrics and numbers through which they can calculate their success. While this kind of data can certainly be useful, it can also have an impact on the creative process. Here we explore why artists in 2020 should ignore the numbers and instead focus on making great music.

The music industry will have to adjust to a series of “mega trends” if it wants to continue to grow in the new digital environment, according to analyst Mark Mulligan, a principal at London-based MiDIA Research. Mulligan was speaking at the Eurosonic Noorderslag conference and festival in Groningen, Netherlands.