New and Noteworthy: Issue 53
👋 Welcome to the 53rd issue of New and Noteworthy, a collection of interesting ideas and projects from the world of music and audio.
Research
Acoustic Cocooning: How the Car became a Place to Unwind
Around the web
“The influx of creators has meant that success as an artist has become far more competitive than it ever was. It is not enough to make good music and promote it on social media because success comes from sustaining differentiation and inimitability. The best way to do that is to use identity to spearhead a scene that no one else can authentically lay claim to.” - Identity and culture have killed genre in scenes-driven industry
Kobalt in partnership with Morgan Stanley is investing more than $700M acquiring music copyright
If you’ve ever heard a voice that wasn’t there, this could be why
"The internet promised, among other things, absolute audience surveillance, full measurability, and perfect knowledge of who was watching what, when, and for how long. What it delivered, instead, was metric tons of metric bullshit" READ
How to write a music press release
"I had a revelation just recently in the past few weeks: it's all about rhythm. And when I say rhythm, I don't mean the beat. I mean, the little internal relationships between whatever is playing, the feel between those things. I don't think anything else matters. The way the sounds interact on a micro level to create something is the whole game." - Rick Rubin
Questioning your music dreams? Here are three questions to ask yourself
When I fell in Love with Hip-Hop
How to be a more productive songwriter
November 9th will now officially be known as Wu-Tang Clan day in NYC
Listening and watching
Shell Of A City - Lisa Lerkenfeldt
At Peace - Ballaké Sissoko
mirror in the gleam - Kin Leonn
Continua (Instrumentals) - Nosaj Thing
Stella Remota - TSVI
Endless Skyways - Bobby Lee
Amor Fati - John Zorn
Performances - Land of Talk
Nostalgia Killer - Lightning Dust
Models - Lee Gamble
Action Adventure - DJ Shadow
Video: Katie Cruel - Lankum
Video: Climactic Phase No.3 - Seefeel
Video: You Played Me - DJ Shadow
Video: Baddadan (ft. IRAH, Flowdan, Trigga, Takura) - Chase & Staus and Bou
Film genre by popularity 1910 - 2021
“I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this:
1) Everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
2) Anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
3) Anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are.”
