Research

The Golden Age Is Behind Us: How the Status Quo Impacts the Evaluation of Technology

Around the web

Sound - another fantastic interactive explanation from Bartosz Ciechanowski

ToneGym - Ear training for musicians

Music audio streams crossed the one trillion mark for the first time in the USA

From 2020, the MP3 at 25: How a digital file dynamited the music industry

The Mystery of the Blue Whale Songs

Professor Richard Boulanger turns brainwaves into music [Starts at 15:42]

British Film Institute’s critic selection of 100 greatest films

Shfl - music recommendation tool

UK: Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society

Listening and watching

After a Feast feat. Eden Girma - Wojciech Rusin 

Good Beginners - Seafarers

Music from Saharan WhatsApp - Various Artists

Empire of Light (Original Score) - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

Things we’re interested in

Question

If attention is supposed to drift, then why has distraction become such a problem?