New and Noteworthy: Issue 12

27 Jan

Written By Greg

Research

The health and wellbeing of professional musicians and music creators in the EU: “Creating and performing music professionally requires physical and psychological resilience. Professional musicians and music creators operate in a rapidly changing context where music is created, produced, distributed, consumed and monetised in completely new ways. This new landscape puts extra pressure and stress on professionals who, to stay afloat, now need a range of other skills (such as digital and business skills), additional to their virtuosity and proficiency. The recent crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, made things worse… The study shows that the health and well-being of musicians in the EU is vulnerable to a number of risk factors and that action on many fronts is needed.”

Around the web

7 Days of Sound 2023: 27 January - 2 February

Music Theory Cheat Sheet: Keys, Scales, Chords, Notes & Intervals - An interactive music theory cheat sheet. Select a key and get all you need in a glance.

Streaming in the Victorian Era: Early Synthesizer Sent Out Tunes by Telephone

Finding music production talent and/or work:

Why your favourite shows and films sound worse than ever

Dissonance and harmony visualised

mirror sound: A Look into the People and Processes Behind Self-Recorded Music

“Conservatism is out the door!” - Oana Ruzandra, Chief Digital Officer, Warner Music Group

For the photos alone, this New York Times piece on Rudy Van Gelder’s famous recording studio

The return of the Sony Walkman…as a Hi-Res streaming player. Two models: NW-A306 and NW-ZX707

Too fast? The sped-up remix phenomenon

More on the influence of TikTok: is it changing the way pop stars perform?

Listening and watching

Space & Awareness - Inhmost

A Living Room (Music from Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart) - Amon Tobin

Against the Sky - Rosales

Repetitions - Samuel Reinhard

Things we’re interested in

Podcasting statistics for 2022: Report by Edison Research from March 2022. Following several years of growth, listener numbers are falling. 38% of adults surveyed said they had listened to a podcast in the last month, down from 41% in 2021.

Plants and Electronic Music