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The World of Harmonics — with Coffee, Guitar, and Synth
A myNoise vlog episode by Dr. Ir. Stéphane Pigeon exploring harmonics through coffee, guitar, and synthesizer. Personal and technical exploration of sound from the creator of myNoise.
Vocal Guide: technique reference
A reference guide covering 21 vocal techniques — registers, styles, effects, embellishments, dynamics — with descriptions. Useful compact resource for vocalists or anyone studying singing technique.
Chord Nebula
Chord Nebula is a MIDI-connected educational game for learning piano chord progressions — you play, it scores your chord choices with immediate feedback across 14 keys and five difficulty levels. Good practice tool for someone working through harmony basics on keyboard.
musicForProgramming();
musicForProgramming() is a curated collection of long-form ambient and electronic music mixes designed for sustained concentration. Each episode is a single unbroken mix, free, no distractions — the antithesis of algorithm-driven playlist services.
Catalog: Music NFT Platform
Catalog is a music NFT platform on Ethereum where artists sell 1/1 single editions of songs directly to collectors. Positioned as a new patronage model for musicians outside streaming platforms — the beta launched in 2021.
Neural Instrument Cloning from Very Few Samples
Research on cloning musical instrument sounds using neural audio synthesis from very few samples — few-shot timbre transfer. Relevant to AI music generation tools and the question of how much training data audio models need.
Sonic Pi: Code-Based Live Music Creation
Sonic Pi is a code-based live music creation tool built on Ruby — you write code that plays music, and changes take effect instantly while the music plays. Originally designed for music education in schools, it became a serious tool for live performance.
Recommending Music on Spotify with Deep Learning
Sander Dieleman's write-up of his Spotify internship work — using convolutional neural networks on raw audio spectrograms to generate track embeddings for music recommendation. A landmark applied deep learning paper from 2014, before CNNs on audio became routine.
Big Data — Dangerous (Hype Machine)
Hype Machine track save: 'Dangerous' by Big Data. The artist name Big Data was a wink at the tech world; the track got significant traction in 2014.
Maker Faire 2012: Robotic Orchestra
Personal video of a robotic orchestra at Maker Faire 2012. Automated instrument installations have been a staple of Maker Faire — robots playing real instruments is a rich space at the intersection of mechanical engineering, music theory, and software.
Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?
Inc. Magazine's profile of Turntable.fm — the social music platform that briefly captivated Silicon Valley in 2011, examining why the initial viral excitement faded. A case study in the gap between early adopter love and mainstream retention.
This Is Your Brain on Jazz: MRI Study of Spontaneity and Creativity
A Johns Hopkins fMRI study of jazz improvisation found that musicians deactivate their self-monitoring prefrontal cortex and activate the self-expression region during improvisation. Empirical support for the idea that creative flow requires disabling your inner critic.
Technology brings Tupac back to life at Coachella
The 2012 Coachella performance that appeared to resurrect Tupac Shakur using a stage illusion marketed as a hologram — actually Pepper's ghost, a Victorian-era trick. Sparked the first mainstream conversation about digital resurrection of deceased performers.
Turntable Rider: Half Bicycle, Half DJ Controller
Wired's coverage of the Turntable Rider — a bicycle handlebars design that doubles as a DJ controller, with the rider's body movements controlling pitch and cross-fading. An example of the 2012 intersection of maker culture, physical computing, and music hardware.