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How an image led to an album
Curiosity takes you to new places. I arrived in such a place after contemplating what a highly complex polyrhythm might look like.
Music in the browser or app?
At some point, your inspirational idea for digital music will have to travel from the platonic realm of your thoughts, into either an app or browser. Unless you can luxuriate in doing both, this represents a stark choice.
The persistence of misogyny in music technology
The British House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee released a report on misogyny in music that reached a stark conclusion for music technology.
Move slow and create things
Could LLMs help make computers less rigid and fixed, opening up the world of programming to anyone?
Steve Reich's exploration of technology through music
Photo by Peter Aidu New York composer Steve Reich did not just participate in the creation of a new style of classical music, he helped establish a new kind of …
Music Hackspace Christmas Quiz
How many answers do you know to the following 20 questions about music and technology?
Is music writing still relevant?
Does music writing still have relevance in the age of the Internet?
Can music help foster a more peaceful world?
Five ways in which music may help us foster a more peaceful world.
Should fair use allow AI to be trained on copyrighted music?
Ed Newton-Rex brought the ethics of AI into focus when he resigned from his role in the Audio team at Stability AI, citing a disagreement with the fair use argument used by his ex-employer to justify training its generative AI models on copyrighted works.
In defence of the Iklectik Art Lab
The Iklectik Art Lab is at risk of eviction from Old Paradise Yard. We talk to Tom Fox from Hackoustic to hear what can be done to save this iconic music and arts centre.
My learning journey with Music Hackspace
This post is about my learning journey over the past 1 – 2 years – how I came to Music Hackspace and what it came to mean for me. I’m …
Can AI help us make humane and imaginative music?
We review Google’s Tone Transfer, Focusrite’s Fastverb and LANDR to explore this question in more detail.
What follows from the collapse of NFTs?
Almost a quarter of a century after Napster fired a torpedo into the record industry one might have expected stability to have returned, but the turmoil continues well into the new century without any signs of resolution.
What do recent trends in generative art mean for music?
In the last few years a big shift occurred in visual generative arts, somewhat obscured by the huge attention given to advances in machine learning and large language models, but worthy of examination for anyone interested in digital arts.
Exploring the 2023 MIDI Innovation Awards
How the MIDI Innovation Awards are designed to help MIDI evolve
Creating soundtracks to transform the taste of wine
How Soundpear is using music to transform the way we taste wine.
Strategies experts use to learn programming languages
Is learning by doing the right way for you, or do you prefer to read about the theory first? There’s no right or wrong, you just have to try different approaches and find one that works for you. Learning a programming language is not inherently hard: if you’ve learned to play an instrument, that’s likely harder!
‘Why I started Music Hackspace': Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
How I stumbled across Music Hackspace is a hazy memory. I remember turning up in a nondescript industrial estate in the hip part of East London, Hoxton. When I finally …
Kaija Saariaho's lasting legacy on electronic music
Discover the innovative legacy of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho as we explore her groundbreaking contributions to electronic and computer-assisted music in this deep dive into three of her 1980s compositions.
Welcoming writer Dom Aversano: exploring the interaction between technology, music, and globalisation.
I would like to briefly introduce myself as I will be creating a series of blog posts for Music Hackspace. I am a composer, percussionist, and writer with a …