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A YouTube guitar teacher talks about Ai generated band. Just when being a musician was getting even less sustainable as a career!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/09/spotify-algorithm-artists-music-musicians-money-songs-playlists?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/10/listening-bars-britain-audiophiles?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-13868483/End-road-car-CD-player-no-new-models-sold-carmaker-calls-time.html

https://www.statista.com/chart/27679/current-versus-catalog-music-in-total-album-consumption-in-the-us/

For a few years, encouraged by a friend, I was an audiophool. I had a dedicated listening room, acoustically treated with massive bass traps in each corner, ceiling cloud, first and second reflection points absorbed and skyline diffusion in the centre of the front wall. All my equipment was...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55742-x

https://fuel-design.com/publishing/audio-erotica/

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ For Wired magazine bias check click here.

I’m losing the signal in the noise.

Fun little test. Anyone who plays an instrument will find it easy, at least I think so after playing guitar for many years.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

https://bristololdvic.ticketco.events/uk/en/e/drive_your_plow_over_the_bones_of_the_dead_live_broadcast_saturday Watch this tomorrow if you can. One more night to watch it online. It’s mesmerising. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m blown away.

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/spotify-gives-49-different-names

https://gear-vault.com/rickenbacker-1932-invention-frying-pan/

https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/turn-it-up A fun activity if you are in the area.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/30/i-was-a-teenage-napster-obsessive-and-downloading-changed-my-music-taste-for-good?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This is a fascinating book, wonderfully written, making complex, cutting-edge science understandable to the general reader. Entertaining as well as informative. Highly recommended.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513821000556 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151570 https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eladlieb/paper.pdf Three diverse research articles using phylogenetic trees to understand music development and performance.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/16/bring-that-beat-back-why-are-people-in-their-30s-giving-up-on-music?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other