New and Noteworthy: Issue 12
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.
Question
Did That Hit Arrive in 2022 or 1987?
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