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Artiphon – Smart instruments for everyday creativity.

Artiphon creates smart, expressive musical instruments like Orba and Chorda that let anyone make music anywhere. Discover intuitive tools for beat-making, looping, and sound exploration.

Why we should tune into the orchestra of the animal world | Aeon Essays

Listen to the boundless sounds of nature, the great animal orchestra, whose songs imbue the world with fresh meaning

Vicente Lusitano: Why was the first Black published composer just a footnote in histories?

A BLM placard in New York encouraged a conductor in London to discover more about this 16th-century pioneer of European classical music

[Interview] Snow J of Cheerful Music dives into the cross cultural intersection of AI and music – EARMILK

In conversation with Earmilk, Snow. J explores how AI has restructured the foundation of music culture, striking a balance between AI and human-made music as well as Cheerful Music's distinct approach to engaging AI technology in music making and marketing.

Still Moon Arts Society – Inspired & Connected

Still Moon Arts Society inspires vibrant and connected communities by creating artistic experiences and nurturing a passion for nature.

Jeff Mills Drifts Into the Cosmos

AI is the latest of a long succession of tools trying to make things easier for us, and it’s always been there, and it’s always affected the music. Maybe we didn’t fear as much, but musicians just have to be more creative and to be more elusive.

Gavin Gamboa

digital garden 🌱 personal wiki 🗂 music · composer & pianist ✷ code · visual art & software

Mino Music — ATProto Composer

Almost Famous (2000)

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the…

SUPPORTING EARLY CAREER ARTISTS IN MN & NYC

The Jerome Foundation was founded by Jerome Hill (1905-1972), a noted filmmaker, composer and painter, and awards grants to emerging artists in Hill’s home state of Minnesota and New York City, where he spent much of his creative life.

DJs

Diana Ratsamee is a Lao-American musician, producer, and DJ based out of Seattle, Washington. Her passions lie in connecting people through storytelling, sound, and movement. She’s played at events and festivals throughout the Seattle underground dance scene and led experience design and programming for the Seattle Chinatown International Block Party and festivals throughout Washington.   Diana grew up between the CID and south Seattle. Her musical inspiration comes from her father, a Lao refugee who fled his home country of Laos to Seattle with dreams of becoming a musician. Navigating this new life in America, her father found refuge in music by playing in both an American and Lao rock band. Diana grew up watching her father take the stage in concert halls and small venues in the Lao community. This inspired her to explore the music and sounds that brought joy and unity to her community.   Her musical loves range from everything between disco to psychedelic Southeast Asian rock, city pop to traditional morlum music. Her musical diversity mirrors her dedication to celebrating unity and inclusivity through music.

Divining an Afrofuturist Music Education – ACT

Published in Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 22 (4): 131–58. [pdf] https://doi.org/10.22176/act22.4.131

He coined the term EDM, became the first ever computer musician, AND created the electronic drum kit... meet Richard James Burgess: “I said ‘one day all records will be made this way’, and that prediction came true”

The unsung hero of music production, Burgess has been there or thereabouts in just about every major innovation of the last 50 years…