March 2011
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Mar 31st
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“…[P]articipants just appear, looking for that new thing—the thing...”
– Dave Hickey, “Romancing the Looky-Loos” Thanks to Andrew for the gift of Hickey’s book, Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy.
Mar 30th
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Monster Records: a Kickstarter project to make 3D puzzles by laser-cutting the pieces out of old records.  (via Indie Music Tech)
Mar 29th
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A note on music sales, piracy, and the economic...
“Downward pressure on leisure expenditure is likely to continue to increase due to rising costs of living and unemployment and drastic rises in the costs of (public) services,” says the report.  Having less money for entertainment has played a huge role in the decline of items like CDs. A 2004 US Consumer Expenditure Survey showed that even spending on CDs by people who had no...
Mar 28th
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Mar 25th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 23rd
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Mar 22nd
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Mar 21st
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Mar 15th
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Mar 14th
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Mar 11th
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Mar 10th
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First documented case of "beat deafness" →
“Mathieu flails in a time zone of his own when bouncing up and down to a melody, unlike people who don’t dance particularly well but generally move in sync with a musical beat, according to a team led by psychologists Jessica Phillips-Silver and Isabelle Peretz, both of the University of Montreal. What’s more, Mathieu usually fails to recognize when someone else dances out of...
Mar 9th
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RFID ‘records’ for choosing music: Bertrand Fan created these RFID-tagged mini-records so his friends could choose music from his digital collection without having to scroll endlessly through files. Read more about the project here. (via BERG Blog)
Mar 7th
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Cathedral Scan “translates the architectural plans of Gothic cathedrals into open-ended musical scores via custom software.” Read more at BLDGBLOG.
Mar 7th
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“The Hip-Hop Word Count (HHWC) is a searchable ethnographic database built from...”
– Digital musicology has started. The Hip-Hop Word Count aims to build a corpus of over 30,000 hip-hop songs, tagged by date and geographical location.
Mar 4th
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Mar 3rd
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Mar 2nd
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“The funny part is that while the Internet tends to make people feel like...”
– Arcade Fire and the ‘Never Heard of It’ Grammys Some of the side-effects of the splintering of the musical landscape.
Mar 1st