MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #69

November 05, 2021

Happy weekend,

as always, here are some of my web discoveries from last week.

1) Yoko Sen is working to revolutionize—and humanize—sonic environments in health care centers through her Sen Sound social research initiative.

2) I have kind of a nostalgic passion for cassettes and boomboxes. The boombox was essential to the birth of hip-hop culture and so many others. You could bring it with you everywhere you went and blast your music through a set of powerful speakers instead of being limited to a pair of headphones. Here is a list of some of the best boomboxes ever produced.

3) Did Richard Wagner already invent "black metal" with his legendary piece "Parsifal". This essay dives deep into his work and the history of black metal, a term that was codified by Venom’s 1982 album “Black Metal” exactly 100 years after Parsifal.

Enjoy reading this week's music tech news and have a wonderful weekend.

Cheers,

Matt

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MBW predicts that YouTube's ad revenues could breach the $30 billion mark this year alone…

An examination of the Twitch Hack data

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Hello readers, this is the last issue sponsored by Infinite Catalog, a great royalties software company, so check em out if you haven’t done so. Last week, Gwendolyn Seale, an Austin-based entertainment lawyer, wrote an op-ed for the Trichordist about the ongoing debate between the National Music Publishers’ Association

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Following the "Blurred Lines" verdict, artists have been more careful than ever about spotting problematic interpolations ahead of time -- with expert help.

Researchers find neurological notes that help identify how we process music