#music

Here are my favourite albums from 2023 so far. I’ll update this post if we get some end-of-year gold.

Researchers from UC Berkeley, Shanghai, and Osaka University have trained a computer to analyse brain activity while listening to music and recreate the song, including a recognisable version of Another Brick in the Wall.

Psychoacoustics: Studies psychological responses to auditory events; human perception may play tricks in audio recognition.

Ravenchord is a radical new piano form factor.

This is an incredibly fascinating article, and the related video is fantastic.

Yoko Ono has to be one of the greatest targets of public bullying in modern history, mostly fuelled by ridiculous theories about her impact on the Beatles, and misogyny. Most music nerds I know despise Ono despite knowing very little about her or her work. Not everyone biased against Ono is a misogynist, but I think their views are informed by dumb arguments made by misogynists before them. Few Ono skeptics have ever engaged with her work or really considered her impact, which is a shame.

Here’s a fascinating exploration into why hit songs are almost never instrumental anymore.

Today is the fifty-third anniversary of the most thrilling jazz album I’ve ever heard. Bitches Brew by Miles Davis.

It’s wild that you can cover a song but you cannot sample it. Hip hop has been around for fifty years now. It’s time to embrace this method of creating music.

Lipsyncing is a common practice now, but it caused Milli Vanilli to have their Grammy revoked not too long ago.