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✘ Teach the song its name
Imagine a song walking into a room and shaking hands and introducing herself to everyone who wants to license it. Its rights information, ownership history, and sonic characteristics all communicated clearly. What’s more, all the rightshold...
✘ Objects we keep, listening we choose
For years now, we keep hearing that physical is back. Vinyl sales are up, CD sales are up, major artists capitalize on this by creating versions and thus further push up physical sales. But, as Eamonn Forde argued in 2024, all this is true...
✘ The false choice: How to stop fearing AI and start listening to the body
In the summer of 1955 a small group of men gathered at Dartmouth to plan a workshop, and along the way they gave their field a name: artificial intelligence. The intelligence they had in mind was rule-based. Basically, write down the explic...
✘ How does it feel?
Churches are sonic places providing space and meaning across much of the world. Art historian Niall Atkinson, for example, has examined where church bells stood in Renaissance Florence and when they were sounded in relation to each other to...
✘ From catalogue to capacity - The majors never fought the future, they licensed it
In 1906 the composer John Philip Sousa went to the United States Congress to warn them about a machine. The threat was the player piano, and Sousa did not hide his hatred for it. He foresaw
“a marked deterioration in American music and m...
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Music = life
Exploring the intersection of technology, culture, and well-being ☁️☀️ Now: building the collaboration layer for music releases at Vandall. Prev: COLORSxSTUDIOS, MUSIC x, Idagio.
Chuck Fishman is a music industry consultant at TONAL Agency and Sounds Like Now and Label Manager of Soul Clap Records. A leader of FSQ, he works with independent artists and labels, plus the estates of Michael Jackson, Charlie Parker, and Sheila E.
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Exploring music, creativity, and human connection in an increasingly algorithmic world. I’m Jamie Reddington aka Sound of fractures: Music artist / creative technologist / researcher
founder (2.5 exits), spotify head of innovation, anon lofi producer turned ... blogger ✏️ catch me @ dead.online
Indisciplinary artist and researcher working with sound, light, space, places and the sense. Living and working between Brussels and Montreal.
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