When you first learn to play music, a lot of the instruction is…
music
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A moving drumbeat, explained visually
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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…
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Defining ’90s music, based on song recognition
In search of songs that define music in the 1990s, Matt Daniels and…
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Remix and make music with audio from the Library of Congress
Brian Foo is the current Innovator-in-Residence at the Library of Congress. His latest…
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Looking for generational gaps in music
Inspired by the genre of YouTube videos where younger people listen to older…
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Neural network generates convincing songs by famous singers
Jukebox from OpenAI is a generative model that makes music in the same…
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Testing the infinite monkey theorem
If you have a room of monkeys hitting keys on typewriters for an…
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Geography of FM radio
So get this. There are these things called radio stations that broadcast music…
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Measuring pop music’s falsetto usage
Vox and Matt Daniels delved into falsetto in pop music over the years.…
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Neural networks to generate music
Kyle McDonald describes some of the history and current research on using algorithms…
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Charting the similarity of summer songs
Popular summer songs have had a bubbly, generic feel to them the past…
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Finding the Beatle who wrote each song using statistical models
There’s been some disagreement about who wrote “In My Life” by The Beatles,…