LA Metro received criticism for blaring classical music at stations with unhoused people. A composer whose music was used at the station made the agency stop playing his song last week. But the move fits into a history of agencies turning up the volume for the listener’s pain, another composer […]
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Streaming services urged to clamp down on AI-generated music
Universal Music Group has told streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple, to block artificial intelligence services from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs, according to emails viewed by the Financial Times. UMG, which controls about a third of the global music market, has become increasingly concerned about AI […]
Grief, hallucinations and exhumed violins: the astonishing music of Richard Skelton | Music
‘It’s not a landscape that’s there for people to go and look at,” says Richard Skelton. The countryside around the Anglo-Scottish border doesn’t share its secrets willingly, but a few hours spent in the passenger seat of Skelton’s MG hatchback reveals some of its strange charms. Wide, arrow-straight roads are […]
How to Use Karaoke Mode (2023): Apple Music, Spotify, and More
There is pleasure in belting out a tune, even if you only do it alone in the auto or shower. Strutting all over the dwelling in the guise of a most loved performer singing at the best of your lungs is a fast monitor to a better mood. And there […]
Ex-Daft Punk co-creator Thomas Bangalter releases classical music album : NPR
Thomas Bangalter, half of the former Daft Punk duo, composed the score for the ballet Mythologies, choreographed by fellow Frenchman Angelin Preljocaj. Jean-Claude Carbonne/Biz 3 hide caption toggle caption Jean-Claude Carbonne/Biz 3 Thomas Bangalter, half of the former Daft Punk duo, composed the score for the ballet Mythologies, choreographed by […]
how music at work can fine-tune your research
Credit: Getty When it comes to access to music, this is a golden age. “You have an armada of music at your disposal at all times,” says Manuel Gonzalez, an organizational psychologist at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. It would take someone until the twenty-seventh century to […]