The music of the ancient world is largely lost, but recent findings and recreations of antique instruments can give a taste.
Toward an exploratory medium for mathematics
The world's oldest complete piece of surviving music is the 3,400-year-old Hurrian cult hymn. The hymn was found inscribed on clay tablets excavated from the ancient city of Ugarit, in modern-day Syria. Sometime after the hymn was composed, the idea of using notation to record music was lost. Writing two millennia later, in the seventh century CE, the polymath Isidore of Seville stated that “unless [musical] sounds are held by the memory of man, they perish, because they cannot be written down.”
Art of Noise
A multi-sensory exploration of how design has changed the way we’ve experienced music over the past 100 years.
A dispatch from the dawn of the electronic music age | Aeon Videos
These days, synthesised sound is easy to access – but early electronic music pioneers had to get hands on to produce it
The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music is focused on orchestrating a cultural renaissance for classical music. Through its activities, the Foundation advances public discussion on the importance of classical music, diagnoses the problems facing that sphere today, and seeks solutions that will bring about a cultural renaissance in music.
Music and the Decline of Civilization
Both Greek and Chinese traditions see the abandonment of musical laws as calamitous for the common good.
«Uno spazio di cura per la vita collettiva», Forte Prenestino, quarant’anni “occupati”
Il primo maggio del 1986 un eterogeneo gruppo di punk, comunisti, anarchici, femministe, rompeva il lucchetto della struttura militare di Roma per trasformarlo in un centro sociale. Nessun collettivo politico, ma solo un gruppo di soggettività che si ritrovano intorno al concetto di autogestione. Musica come bene comune, autoproduzione, utilizzo critico delle tecnologie, ambientalismo e transfemminismi sono i temi che lo attraversano da sempre. La cultura scelta come arma di contestazione lo hanno reso l’anima creativa del movimento
Music Chat: Classical Music's Ten Dirtiest Secrets
Mino Music — ATProto Composer
The secret behind Italy’s rarest pasta
It's so difficult and time-consuming to prepare, that for 300 years only the women of a single Sardinian family knew how to make it.
70 Years of Glitchy Computer History Turned Into Music
Late at night in Great Britain's National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, some of the world's oldest computers awoke from mechanical slumber.
Yuuki Matthews | HASU
A generative instrument and ambient music player that adapts to the time of day.
Cantora
Fortuna’s musical trajectory is over 30 years long, throughout which he has built bridges connecting her music, Jewish roots, and several religions and cultures. Diversity is very present in the music of Fortuna.
Archivio Grafica Italiana
The first systematic digital archive dedicated to the Italian graphic design heritage. A growing overview aimed to spread and promote the culture of quality that distinguishes the Italian design tradition.
teoria : Music Theory Web
Web site dedicated to the study of Music Theory. Articles, reference, interactive exercises.
AI & Music - developments & perspectives
Perspectives, developments, & news re: AI & music
Owners of Elvis Presley’s Music Sue Anthropic for Copyright Infringement
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