New and Noteworthy: Issue 20

March 24, 2023 Greg

👋 Welcome to the 20th issue of New and Noteworthy, a collection of interesting ideas and projects from the world of music and audio.

Research

Dignity at work 2: Discrimination in the music sector

Around the web

Human Artistry Campaign - Advocating for AI use that empowers and supports human creativity

James Bridle on the stupidity of AI - Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous

Music in Human Evolution

The 15 loudest bands of all time

AI and Sound Wellness

The Pulse of Pop Music is Changing

No one can stay in the quietest room in the world for more than an hour - Microsoft’s anechoic chamber at their Redmond headquarters.

It’s about searching for, finding, and sharing some truth. That’s what I’m looking for in everybody’s music, in every genre–having the truth exposed. A truth always comes out in art. I think comedy finds it, and I think good songwriting finds it. I believe that all art is about this truth, which is almost invisible at most other times, when we’re less aware, locked in the drudgery of our day-to-day existences, until art breaks through and points it out to us. Sometimes I think of it as a search for low-hanging fruit, even though I know that’s not quite the right simile–it’s something people walk by all the time, something so ingrained in our environment that it’s become invisible, something so obvious nobody sees it anymore, but then someone figures out how to say what it is, or how to see it, and everyone else says, “Of course! Why didn’t I say that? That’s exactly right. I always knew that was there,” or “That’s exactly how I feel.” Like when Bill Callahan sings, “Well, I can tell you about the river / Or we could just get in.

Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song