👋 Welcome to the 55th issue of New and Noteworthy, a collection of interesting ideas and projects from the world of music and audio.

Research

A survey by Saint-Gobain Ecophon France to measure the auditory perception of noise in bars & restaurants

Around the web

John Grzinich produces sounds installations using large, nylon-stringed, Aeolian harps

In response to this piece in The Guardian on Spotify’s recently announced royalty payments, Public Service Broadcasting highlight how much Spotify care about music. Spotify pays them:

• 79% less than Qobuz

• 71% less than Amazon Premium

• 59% less than Tidal

• 58% less than Apple

• 56% less than Deezer

The history of the mixtape

A guide to alternate tunings on Bandcamp

YouTube is going to start cracking down on AI clones of musicians

Warner Music to recreate Edith Piaf’s voice and image with AI

Anthym helps colleagues form workplace connections through music

The nature of hit making in the music business

Listening and watching

ELEMENTS, CYCLES - Jeannine Schulz

Protector - Aoife Nessa Frances

Breaking The Thermometer - Leyla McCalla

Nakshatra - Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy

Sun Arcs - Blue Lake

Canto Ostinato (Simeon ten Holt) - Erik Hall

In the End It Always Does - The Japanese House

Things we’re interested in

Infraordinary FM - Generative music with low-key announcements of unimportant things happening across the globe

ConvertWithMoss - Converts between mutisample formats

nina - an online music ecosystem connecting artists, fans and releases. Twitter thread on recent changes to the protocol

Question

Is the vinyl bubble about to burst?

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