Researchers in Japan played Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K. 448) for 10 rats, and tiny wireless accelerometers affixed to the animals’ heads revealed that the rodents subtly nodded in sync with the musical beat. The Wall...
Ibrahim Maalouf, the Lebanese French horn player known for some daring collaborations, visits the Met to check out a display of rare instruments and discuss his own musical unorthodoxies. The New Yorker
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Suavecito, by the band Malo, which became a mainstream hit at a time when Latinx people were just a small percentage of the US population. The love song became a powerful symbol for...
English radio veteran, producer and author DJ Semtex traces his career foundations to hip hop – the music genre that set him on his current path as a global cultural curator. In recent years, however, his utility has expanded to include...
If you’ve ever made a playlist—for yourself or someone else—you’ve done the delicate dance of music curation. By what logic did you order the songs? What nearly made it on, but got left out, and why? Gizmodo
For one thing, the mind inevitably wanders to the fact that over 100,000 tracks are now being uploaded to major global music streaming services every single day. Music Business Worldwide
It has been reported that the music industry is less diverse than it was in 2020, with only 21.04% of individuals working in music identifying as Black, Asian or from an ethnically diverse background, compared to 22.3% two years...
An extraordinary social project in Peru is helping to change the lives of disadvantaged children through the power of music education. The project is the initiative of the internationally acclaimed Peruvian tenor, Juan Diego Flórez....
Music education must be available to every child regardless of geography and class,that is the view of Grace Tallon, Executive Director of Newpark Academy of Music in Dublin. News Talk
Music will be a subject taught as part of curricula in Saudi Arabia in two years’ time starting from the kindergarten level, a government official has said. Gulf News
The work-in-progress “Song of the Ambassadors” got a test run at Alice Tully Hall — with Lincoln Center’s artistic director lending her brain. The New York Times
From the Big Tech side, Google’s latest system is called AudioLM, and it’s capable of creating music OR natural-sounding speech based on a prompt of a few seconds of audio. There’s a technical explanation here, and a more accessible to...
We are two female jazz singers, jazz researchers and lovers of jazz. And we have discovered jazz gave us another shared experience – sexism. The Conversation
On Nov. 20, 1969, a group of Indigenous Americans that called itself Indians of All Tribes, many of whom were UC Berkeley students, took boats in the early morning hours to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. They bypassed a Coast...
Toomaj Salehi's lyrical support for protesters in Iran has landed him behind bars before, but this time the popular rapper's fortune-telling has fans and family members fearing for his life. RFERL
Selon une récente étude publiée dans le journal scientifique BMJ Global Health, entre 670 millions et 1,35 milliard de jeunes risquent d’endommager leur système auditif à force d’écouter de la musique à un volume trop haut. PN
Jean-Michel Jarre profite du salon Paris Audio Vidéo Show dont il est le parrain, pour dévoiler « Oxymore », son nouvel album en son immersif. 20 Minutes
Pianiste et chef d’orchestre, Alphonse Cemin connaît intimement le monde de l’opéra. Il détaille quelques éléments nécessaires pour capter l’attention et l’émotion du jeune public dans sa découverte du chant lyrique. La Croix
En este Día de Santa Cecilia nos vamos a fijar en las escuelas de música. ¿Cómo trabajan el lenguaje musical, los instrumentos con los más pequeños de la casa? EITB
Il y a quinze ans, Radiohead cassait les codes et laissait son public choisir le prix à payer pour écouter son nouvel album. Aujourd'hui, la généralisation du streaming donne à cette pratique un nouveau sens. Slate
“C’est du braquage, braquage, braquage de pouvoir, le peuple ne veut plus de la famillecratie” chante Tiken Jah Fakoly dans le titre éponyme de l’album Braquage de pouvoir. RFI
Estamos muy al tanto de la guerra del streaming en plataformas audiovisuales. El choque entre 'La Casa del Dragón' y 'El Señor de los Anillos: Los Anillos de Poder' ha simbolizado la guerra este año, protagonizada por una habitual en...
Le compositeur, arrangeur, pianiste et producteur de musique Sakamoto Ryûichi est surtout connu en Occident pour ses musiques de films tels Furyo ou Le Dernier Empereur. Il a atteint une renommée mondiale à partir de la fin des années...
Tenía una voz espectacular, fuera de serie. Llegaba más alto y más bajo que nadie. Podía sonar tan grave como la del cantante y poeta Leonard Cohen y tan aguda la de la soprano Montserrat Caballé. BBC
People with hearing loss will be able to listen to music through the sense of touch thanks to a pioneering prototype that has been devised by researchers of the Department of Electronics of the University of Malaga, members of the...
Her advice, if she had to do it all again, would be to keep doing what you love. She was able to take voice lessons because her teacher worked with her schedule. But she quit choir when she started nursing school, because she assumed she...
Musical memories are often preserved in those with Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers say listening to music can have a positive impact on emotion and behavior for those with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Neuroscience News
There’s a lot of hype around amapiano. The South African dance music genre has dominated dancefloors since 2019, spreading from South Africa to West Africa and now to the world. Music in Africa
"The ten potential targets are fully in line with our vision of a world where everyone can learn, experience, create, perform and express themselves freely through music and where musical artists are recognised and fairly remunerated"....
A week after Endeavor Chief Executive Ari Emanuel called for businesses to cut ties with the artist formerly known as Kanye West after his antisemitic remarks, companies such as Adidas and the Gap stopped working with him. The Star
“There is something unique about the music industry that the #MeToo movement hasn't really penetrated to the same extent that it has like the film industry,”. MixMag
Icebergify collects data from your top 50 artists in your short-term, medium-term, and long-term listening trends, according to Icebergify. So the artists on your chart might be musicians you haven't listened to in a few months, or maybe...
In Britain and Ireland, a series of recent projects show the rich possibilities when disability and neurodiversity are considered in the creative process. The New York Times
The RIAA says AI music generators will be trained on copyrighted music, the same way popular image generators are based on billions of images taken by artists. VICE
World-renowned classical pianist Lang Lang is continuing his quest to inspire children in China and abroad by teaching them how to follow their musical passions and develop key skills. China Daily
Senior music industry figures are for the first time sounding the alarm over the takeover of the Australian live music industry by US-based corporate giants, including a company that counts the government of Saudi Arabia as one of its...
Looking at Twitter’s upcoming changes through a music industry lens, one of the most interesting updates of all is the news that Musk plans to offer monetization to “content creators” via a new (as-of-yet unspecified) revenue-sharing...
The important thing to remember, if you are sorting through the rich world of classical music, is that style periods are much less real than the music they describe. The job of labels should be to give us some orientation in our...
Lorsque l’on écoute de la musique, notre cerveau prédit en permanence ce qu’il va se passer ensuite, ces prédictions sont différentes selon d’où l’on vient et écouter une nouvelle musique engendre une plasticité neuronale (capacité du...