New and Noteworthy: Issue 4
Research
Percentage of 12th graders who read a print book or magazine daily for pleasure from 1976-2016
Around the web
Related to the research linked above, the need to read
“You can’t think well without writing well, and you can’t write well without reading well... You have to be good at reading, and read good things... people who want to have ideas can’t afford [not] to.”
The Lucky Chops 👍 👍 👍
Generative AI will alter how we design just about everything
Amazon Alexa is reportedly on course to lose $10B this year. A good synopsis on the challenges of smart assistsants.
Building the new YouTube sound
The death of the key change - Between 2010 and 2020, just one No. 1 song changed key
The Art of Flow - Interview with DJ Jazzy Jeff
Words per minute in songs plotted as a topographic map
In 1979 Mike Oldfield re-recorded the theme to the British kid's TV show Blue Peter, and they filmed him doing it.
Listening and watching
Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel II - 36 & zakè
Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents - The Transcendence Orchestra
The Things That Fade - Malibu
0860 (feat. Eastman) - Fracture
The Sound - Nico
Things we’re interested in
How does context impact music consumption?
Fornite’s “Sound Ring” for visualising sound effects - a great piece of accessibility design
Question
What will happen when our phones record everything we say 24X7? Read
