New and Noteworthy: Issue 5
"Artists are about to go on strike": YouTube's Lyor Cohen on his plans to save the music industry
The attribution problem with generative AI
Mark Kermode’s top 20 music documentaries
From Tom Whitwell’s 52 Things I learned in 2022
YouTuber Mr Beast employs a team of six people to make thumbnails for his videos. Thumbnails are planned before the video is shot Source
Fees from music playing on Peloton are “a top 10 account for pretty much all major record labels right now.” Source
Musicians make life hard for programmers. There are nine different bands called Emperor, one band called Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum, and a side project called ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ Source
No, watching 30 minutes of Netflix isn’t the equivalent of driving 4 miles in a car. Source
A deep learning model trained on 85,000 eyes can tell male from female eyeballs with 87% accuracy but no one knows why. Source
Percussionist Emil Richards played the finger clicks in The Addams Family theme, the bongos in Mission Impossible and the xylophone in the theme for The Simpsons Source
Researchers asked 100 people whether a reasonable person would unlock their phone and give it to an experimenter to search through. Most said no. Then the researchers asked 103 other people to unlock their phone and give it to them. 100 of them complied Source
In March 1967, the CIA tested Acoustic Kitty, a live cat with a microphone, battery and antenna surgically implanted. Sadly, on its first public trial, the unfortunate animal was run over by a taxi Source
The creators of Sim City had a problem with car parking: “We realised there were way too many parking lots in the real world. Our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.” Source
70% of Gen Z viewers tend to watch videos with subtitles, which is why a team at Netflix worked extra hard on the subtitles for Stranger Things Source
Listening and watching
another interior - Pinkcourtesyphone
Tempus - Pole
Things we’re interested in
Big news from Epic re Unreal Engine!
MetaSounds now supports multichannel audio
A new procedural plugin called: Soundscape.
Audiolink: Enabling communication with 3rd party engines like WWise and eventually DAWs and other hardware
TwoTone - An open-source web app to turn data into music
Tone Transfer from Google and Magenta - See video below
Google and the Magenta team collaborated with musicians around the world to turn their instrumental performances into machine learning models.