👋 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

A study by music tech firm Pex found at least 1% of all songs on major streaming services are "modified audio"

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

Things we’re interested in

Kaiber - creating music videos with generative AI

Question

Do you think more clearly when reading or listening?

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