These days, synthesised sound is easy to access – but early electronic music pioneers had to get hands on to produce it
Art of Noise
A multi-sensory exploration of how design has changed the way we’ve experienced music over the past 100 years.
music hardware is a fashion accessory
why is everyone obsessed with audio hardware now?
Classic Synth Sounds in Bitwig
This Bitwig Course covers classic sounds from electronic music that you can create with simple subtractive synthesizers and a few tweaks, without complex fx chains. If you start making music, you should know these classics, because every other sound is more or less an fork or alteration of these classics!
The secret story of the vocoder, the military tech that changed music forever
On Version History: how to play your voice like an instrument, with a little help from Chromeo.
10 Cent Microcontroller Makes Music
Compared to the old 8-bit Arduinos, it’s incredible how cheap modern microcontrollers like the ESP32 have become. But there are even cheaper options out there if you don’t need that kin…
The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music
Explore the astonishing amount of music available to AI developers.
ENDOGEN: a deep experimental exploratorium of lowercase synthesis - CDM Create Digital Music
Enter an organic sound machine that will take you to an imagined sound world somewhere between a temple garden and a half-awake dream. ENDOGEN is a dazzling tool, built in Max and SuperCollider, that explores notions of lowercase synthesis. There's a lot to cover as far as what it can do -- but you should also feel empowered to play and get lost.
Cakewalk
Fueled by over 30 years in the relentless pursuit of innovation, we build the most intuitive, next-generation music production tools that empower all creators to push creative boundaries.
How Big Tech Co-opted DIY – and how to Fight Back | The Quietus
As technology has developed in the last twenty years, it has brought with it a sense of enablement. Over time, access to nearly everything has become simpler, and as such, the message from Silicon Valley and its offshoots was that you can do it all. I have worked in the music industry since the late […]
The Mythos of the Electronic Revolution
JAMES W. CAREY, JOHN J. QUIRK, The Mythos of the Electronic Revolution, The American Scholar, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Summer, 1970), pp. 395-424
Millions of Copyrighted Songs Were Fed to AI Music Generators – Now There's Proof
Millions of copyrighted songs trained AI music generators, and new searchable databases from The Atlantic now confirm which tracks were used.
The Mythos of the Electronic Revolution
JAMES W. CAREY, JOHN J. QUIRK, The Mythos of the Electronic Revolution, The American Scholar, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring, 1970), pp. 219-241
AI & Music - developments & perspectives
Perspectives, developments, & news re: AI & music
YouTube Music adds new labels for AI music
Jordan Rudess + jam_bot at MIT October 3
Jordan Rudess and MIT’s jam_bot: A New Era of Human-AI Musical Collaboration
Artificial Intelligence in Music Classrooms: PK-12 Educators’ Practices, Concerns, and Confidence
“It frustrates me to hear people bashing something that's so amazing”: Todd Edwards is optimistic about AI in music production
An A.I. Songwriting Experiment: Humans Against the Machine