New and Noteworthy: Issue 56
👋 Welcome to the 56th issue of New and Noteworthy, a collection of interesting ideas and projects from the world of music and audio.
Research
Creating speech zones with distributing acoustic swarms
Around the web
Global value of music copyright increased by 14% to $41.5B in 2022
Is Spotify’s 1000 stream threshold legal?
Hainbach hit one million Spotify streams per year earning him $2160 (before tax)
Vince Clarke, synth-pop, and his new solo album
Kaytranada on sampling: “It’s like collage; Not everyone is going to get it”
Canva (design tool) launches commercial music library
The scientist who decodes the sounds of undersea volcanoes
103M people are paying for music on Tencent Music services
They said albums were dying. Nope!
Music creators’ body criticises UK government over AI roundtable
Listening and watching
S - they are gutting a body of water
Everything Harmony - The Lemon Twigs
Every Preston Guild - RSL
Light That Slips Away - Alec Schulman
When we were that what wept for the sea - Colin Stetson
Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and Gambia - Watu Eriring bee Kaolo
I’m Not Your Toy - Peter Barclay
Ultraviolet - Billy Mohler
A time to love, a time to die - Amor Muere
We Buy Diabetic Test Strips - Armand Hammer
The Killer (Original Score) - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
antenna - tomotsugu nakamura
Philanthropy - Hauschka
The Timing, The Structure - Heathered Pearls
Ritme Jaavdanegi - Mohammad Reza Mortazavi
Songs of Silence - Vince Clarke
Video: mermaid under the sun - muva of Earth
Video: Nature Boy - David Bowie and Massive Attack
Things we’re interested in
Ambient Garden - Can a composition be organised in space rather than time?
Podcast: Music Meets AI