👋 Welcome to the 54th issue of New and Noteworthy, a collection of interesting ideas and projects from the world of music and audio.

Research

Music based brain-computer interfaces - an interview with Stefan Ehrlich and Kat Agres

Around the web

The state of music criticism

Global value of music copyright up 14% to $41.5B

The sonic landscape of post-apocalyptic drama Finality of Dusk has been shaped by increased bass and rumble to allow deaf moviegoers to feel the film vibrating through their bodies. READ

LeVar Butron is teaching the art of listening in a comic mystery podcast: Sound Detectives

How to discover new music

A Guide to Smithsonian Folkways' Best Science and Nature Recordings

Spotify to phase out operations in Uruguay following introduction of copyright bill requiring “fair and equitable remuneration”

Spotify will not offer payouts to songs with fewer than 1000 plays

The 100 greatest BBC performances

Collaborate with AI & other fans to create unique album art and remix tracks based on Metallic Spheres in Colour from The Orb & David Gilmour

Listening and watching

Angels and Watermarks - Howard Hersh

In The Cell of Dreams - Shackleton & Zimpel with Siddhartha Belmannu

Ground - Fosse

Wall Of Eyes - The Smile

Mia Gargaret - Gia Margaret

LP2 - Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann

II - Spread Joy

Injection Basic Sound - Matmos

Where the Bough Has Broken - Hilary Woods

Fading farther from me - Felisha Ledesma

Diaries Beneath Fragile Glass - Martyna Basta

Ich sehe Vasen - MM/KM

Things we’re interested in

Sound - reimagining the relationship between artists and their fans

Data poisoning tool enabling artists to break generative AI models

PlaylistAI

CNN report on generative AI and video games

Question

Why does every appliance product sing?

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