👋 Welcome to the 28th issue of New and Noteworthy, a collection of interesting ideas and projects from the world of music and audio.

Research

Musical Training Induces Functional Plasticity in Human Hippocampus

Around the web

RIP Tina Turner

Music in Human Evolution

Flim - Large, searchable database of images from film, music video, TV series and adverts

International Music Summit Business Report - the electronic music industry is now valued at $11.3 billion, which surpasses the pre-pandemic high

Brainsounds - Focus, meditation and relaxation

This is the quietest sound in the universe

“…researchers launched solar-powered balloons up 70,000 feet, they detected a hidden acoustic world -- including mysterious noises without a known origin."

“…artists must be allowed to go through bad periods. They must be allowed to do bad work. They must be allowed to get in a mess. They must be allowed to have dud experiments.”

In the United States, Record Store Day 2023 provided indie stores with biggest boost in 15 years

Some vintage synths are increasing in value faster than major stocks

Podcast: How Royalties Work for Producers

Podcast: The story of how audio evolved from mono, to stereo, to quadraphonic, to surround sound and beyond

Listening and watching

Notice The Reverse - Quartz

For Spirits - Batu

Dream About Yourself (Bonus) - Richie Culver

Janoob - Toumba

The Hum - James Ellis Ford

TAPESTRY - Slikback

Hybrid Fruit - Olof Dreijer & Mount Sims

HoneyDripper - Michelle Lou

Every Day - Sylvan Weekends

Things we’re interested in

Question

With so much emphasis on artist performance statistics, where are the label statistics?

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