MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #24

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Matt

Warner Music Group's IPO, delayed by the coronavirus pandemic and overshadowed by nationwide protests, made a big splash on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Wednesday, rising over 20% from the IPO price and giving music a brief spotlight on Wall Street.

Curtis is a mentor and advsior in the MediaTech Ventures network, a member of the Recording Academy and founder of the technology company LiveShed which is working to revolutionize multi-camera video.

Networks of stars: Northern sky with constellations. Illustration by Vecteezy.

Clarke Peters uncovers the stories of black musicians in Europe.

Room40's Lawrence English recounts the history of noise as a weapon and how since Biblical times man has known that to hear is to fear.

In what looks and sounds like something straight out of a Star Wars movie, a robot named Shimon from Georgia Tech can now sing and compose songs with human collaborators, among many other cool upgrades.

Guitar capos, little devices that raise the pitch of a stringed instrument, are simple accessories with a surprising legacy of innovation.

Black Lives Matter is exposing a flawed industry predicated on the abuse of Black talent at the hands of white executives, publicists, and newsrooms.

Update/Correction, May 27 2020, 2PM Pacific. An earlier version of this article contained the phrase "the the online music industry is currently generating more revenues than the music industry did at the height of the CD bubble"; this has been corrected to read "the online music industry is...

Thomas Wiggins, an African-American musician marketed as ‘Blind Tom’, had a lucrative career—but saw none of the profits himself