Music and Technology

By mapping notes to letters, some musicians sneak secret words into tunes. (2018)

The Record : NPR “You've probably been surprised to hear a remarkable song you've never heard pop out of nowhere sometime recently — you're not ... (2017)

Music streaming - playing songs over the internet "on demand" - is widely regarded as having saved the music industry, following an era of music pi... (2018)

What if The Godfather were a romantic comedy? Or REM were happy about losing its religion?..."In Western music, there's nothing that says 'sad' lik... (2013)

We should call this what it is: the automation of selling out. "The music world continues to be exceedingly vulnerable, and there are looming qu... (2017)

Audius wants to cut the middlemen out of music streaming so artists get paid their fair share. Coming out of stealth today led by serial entreprene... (2018)

Hello! My name is Gilles Bernhard and I’m from France. I co-founded SCPlanner.net a little over two years ago with an old friend of mine, and it’s ... (2018)

An in-depth history of the most important pop innovation of the last 20 years, from Cher’s “Believe” to Kanye West to Migos (2018)

The long read: Once derided, the successors to muzak have grown more sophisticated – and influential – than any of us realise. (2018)

"...author Ian Port, whose new book, The Birth of Loud, has just been published by Scribner, the birthplace of rock ’n’ roll could also be the form... (2019)

Fortnite’s live in-game concert was a shockingly stunning sight to behold, and it was also an unprecedented moment in gaming. It truly felt like a ... (2019)

People in tech and media have been saying that ‘content is king’ for a long time - perhaps since the VHS/Betamax battle of the early 1980s, and per... (2019)

If the Eagles or Marvin Gaye fan in your life is complaining about this year’s Grammy songs, this might be why. (2019)

Stop and think for a moment about how many ads you saw in the last 24 hours, on Instagram or Facebook or anywhere else. How many did you scroll thr... (2018)

A new report suggests that vinyl sales will outsell CDs this year, the first time the format has generated more revenue since 1986 (2019)

Explore the fundamentals of music via Ableton's interactive website. Experiment with beats, melody, harmony, basslines, and song structure in your ... (2019)