MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #3

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The content I am sharing here will not purely contain industry news but also good write-ups about research findings, artistic explorations, backgound stories about innovation in music and other musictech related articles that I come across.

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Holly Herndon on Proto, her album made with artificial intelligence. Here, she walks us through how she did it.

The US office responsible for patents and trademarks is trying to figure out how AI might call for changes to copyright law, and it’s asking the public for opinions on the topic. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a notice in the Federal Register last month saying it’s seeking comments.

The CD brought unprecedented growth in music-as-product. Then Napster came along as the first real digital disruptor and burst that bubble very effectively. iTunes then disrupted Napster (partly alongside industry…

The internet keeps changing the way we consume, promote, and monetize music. Will the music industry ever be able to adapt fast enough?

Well, they are, and the shift is dramatic. Between 2013 to 2018, the average song on the Billboard Hot 100 decreased in length by 20 seconds. Additionally, while only 1 percent of hit songs were 2…

The worlds of computer gaming and electronic music are merging like never before, with virtual raves, AI-generated musicians and concerts inside massive multiplayers like Fortnite becoming commonplace. DJ Mag investigates what this could mean for the future of clubbing and dance music

Last week in Los Angeles, I took part in a conversation that likely would have been impossible to hold a decade ago. Both recorded and live music have been experiencing sustained financial growth in recent years, allowing a two-fold trend to emerge when it comes to investment. Firstly, artists themselves are investing more in tech companies, increasingly opting to partner with brands through equity stakes rather than with one-off sponsorships...

Andy Mooney says the Apple co-founder was "one of the first people" he met at Disney, which acquired Jobs' animation studio Pixar in 2006.

After the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927, all bets were off for live musicians who played in movie theaters. Thanks to synchronized sound, the use of live musicians was unnecessary — and perhaps a larger sin, old-fashioned. In 1930 the American Federation of Musicians formed a new organization called the Music Defense League and launched a scathing ad campaign to fight the advance of this terrible menace known as recorded sound...

In 2001, the internet’s premier file-sharing service Napster was shut down after just two years, leaving a giant vacuum in the ever-expanding peer-to-peer file-sharing space....

Data visualization tells the story of the history of music and FM radio during the past 50 years.

The National Association of Broadcasters, DiMA, and dozens of other organizations are demanding the creation of a comprehensive music rights database.

How the professional-minded MIDI format, for an incredibly short but memorable period of time, became the primary way music was shared on the internet.