You know the classic game Pong with the paddles and ball that moves…
music
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Music visualizer in the style of a Pong game
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Internationalization of K-Pop
K-pop grew mainstream-popular in countries outside South Korea over the past few years.…
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Defining the greatest albums of all time
Rolling Stone published a list in 2003 that ranked the 500 greatest albums…
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Diva-ness of national anthem renditions
You’ve probably heard various renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner, and sometimes singers put…
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Music theory in interactive visuals
muted.io is a set of visual tools to help you learn music theory.…
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Data-based journal of Pavement tour songs
Denise Lu, a superfan of Pavement, an indie rock band, examined the set…
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Visual breakdowns of iconic hip-hop samples
Hip-hop music producers often sample from previous works. They remake, restructure, and repurpose…
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Hip-hop’s influence on the English language
For The New York Times, Miles Marshall Lewis highlights the etymology of five…
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Rarity of songwriters who are women for popular songs
It’s common to see singers who are women, but the people who write…
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Taylor Swift pop charts
Taylor Swift has been filling up stadiums across the United States and will…
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A moving drumbeat, explained visually
When you first learn to play music, a lot of the instruction is…
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Eurovision winners past and present
The 2023 Eurovision Song Contest finished up this past weekend with the winning…
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Why modern popular songs have so many more writing credits
For Tedium, Chris Dalla Riva examined why the number of credited songwriters per…
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Generating music from text
Researchers at Google built a model that generates music based on brief text…
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Stable Diffusion to generate spectrograms to convert to sounds
Stable Diffusion is an AI model that lets you enter text to generate…
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Decline of key changes in popular music
Chris Dalla Riva analyzed key changes in songs that made the Billboard Hot…
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Money distribution for streaming music
From the listener perspective, we pay our monthly or annual fees and just…
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Examination of songs after virality on TikTok
Vox, in collaboration with The Pudding, looked at what happens when a song…
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Visual deconstruction of popular songs
Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding, for NYT Opinion, look at how the structure…
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Comparing live music recordings against the studio versions
There’s something about hearing music live no matter how many times you’ve heard…