👋 Welcome to the 58th issue of New and Noteworthy, a collection of interesting ideas and projects from the world of music and audio. That’s a wrap for 2023. We’re now taking a much needed break… see you all in the New Year.

Research

Revenue sharing at music streaming platforms

Around the web

Musical pitch is not “high” or “low”

Synth Wars: The Story of MIDI

Nile Rogers tells UK House of Commons select committee that David Bowie would have failed in today’s music industry

Microsoft Copilot gets a music creation feature

Analytics can predict hit singles, but skeptics say it's far less effective at identifying enduring artists

Pitchfork selects 10 best music books of 2023

Apple may incentivise spatial music

IFPI Global Music Report 2023

The Record Label Crisis

UK Council of Music Makers publishes Economics of Music Streaming Score Card

There’s no “best ever” in art

Listening and watching

July 4 (Mourning Chorus) - Magic Tuber Stringband

ParziFoooooooooooL - PLF

Apparitiana - LA-4A

Nacre - Quade

Barking at Trees - lu

Repetitions - Samuel Reinhard

All Above - Grand River

Trip - Lurka

Remains - Will Gardner

Wire Hums - David Bird

Exotropia - Amadou/Cambien/Rempis

Again - Oneohtrix Point Never

Letters to George - GEORGE

Fauna Marina - Egisto Macchi

Sounds While Waiting - Ellen Arkbro

Things we’re interested in

A selection of audio focused AI tools:

• Beatoven.ai

• Splash Pro AI

• Stable Audio

• Riffusion

• Soundraw

• UnlimitedMusicGen

sonic garbage - lots of fun with this!

DataSonifyer - interesting alternative to TwoTone

How sound elevates interactive narrative storytelling

Tech note from Ableton on reducing CPU load on Apple M1 and M2 processors

Question

How many original members must a historic rock band retain for its lineup to be considered legit?

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