Research

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Spreading Deadly Pathogens Under the Disguise of Popular Music - researchers designed music to trigger resonant-frequency thresholds used in a safety system.

Is Machine Listening Listening? - “…what do the researchers who build machine listening systems think they do? What do the corporations and states who deploy them think they are doing? Do their users treat their listening machines as listeners?”

Around the web

The funk formula of the one and only Bootsy Collins (belated happy birthday!)

Trust your ears

Is Amazon Music primed for success? Mark Milligan believes yes

How to have ideas

Video maker Callux stayed in an anechoic chamber for over four hours: an interesting account of the anechoic experience

Listening and watching

Promises by Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders

Strega Musica curated by Alessandro Cortini

Things we’re interested in

The CHD-4 drum machine is a collaboration between audiovisual designer Love Hultén and Teenage Engineering to highlight congenital heart disease in children; the most common birth defect in the world. Functioning as a modular synthesiser, it produces rhythms made using the electrocardiograms of four children with different heart defects.

RNBO is a new patching environment from Cycling ‘74 built to export software that can run in several contexts including integration within a C++ or Web Audio project.

Note - Ableton’s latest iOS app for capturing musical ideas

Question

Charles Cleyn asks what numbers do you need to make $50k a year from streaming alone