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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - Underdubbed - glamorous
When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbing on different instruments and capturing the whole mess on a cassette recorder. We didn’t know what we were doing, […]

Dave Stevens - What are we trying to preserve?
Basics of Classical Harmony & Counterpoint
Salin - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
Atmospheric Reviews — SFU Lecture 2026
Music changed when infrastructure made it possible to break apart bundled products and move value through use rather than control. The PDF bundles research the same way.
The Sounds Resource
Archiving and preserving video game media since 2003!
20 years in, a "professional" rollout, and only 2k streams. This was my last hurrah and I’m feeling defeated.
325 votes, 326 comments. I’m struggling to process a massive disconnect and need some perspective from other career artists. I’ve been in the…
Music Chat: Classical Music's Ten Dirtiest Secrets
“It’s unfamiliar, intimidating, and seemingly impenetrable for producers raised on DAWs like Ableton Live - but it can unlock a whole new world of creativity”: I tried a music tracker and it rewired my brain (in a good way)
Beloved by artists from Aphex Twin to Deadmau5, trackers swap the trusty piano roll for a text-based, vertically-scrolling interface that looks like something out of The Matrix. Let's find out how deep the tracker rabbit hole goes

Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid
I'm told there are now over 4.5 million podcasts in existence. The industry is worth 40 billion dollars, 158 million Americans tune in monthly, and the medium has finally achieved the kind of cultural ubiquity previously reserved for terrestrial radio or the evening news. But if you actually spend
How to do music streaming right in the Atmosphere? This weekend I propose a lexicon that brings the music industry and atproto builders together: artists and labels can upload music with all the metadata needed for the whole monetization chain hilkeu.leaflet.pub/3mhzj3ouxx22k @atprotocol.dev
Announcing indiemusi.ch alpha: the groundwork for music streaming on atproto - hilke thinks
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