“‘It’s a richer and more sophisticated rhythm because you can hit one more thing,’ said Gil Weinberg, director of the Center for Music Technology at Georgia Tech. The robotic arm is capable of hitting a drum up to 20 times per second, a rate that’s impossible for humans. And it never needs a break.”
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Ukraine Uses Eurovision Competition To Send Pointed Message To Russia
“The lyrics begin: ‘They come to your house, they kill you all and say: ‘We’re not guilty’.'”
We Might Have Just Witnessed The End Of The ‘Album’
“The Life of Pablo is starting to feel like a full-scale attack on the very ontology of the album itself: its primacy in the music industry’s sales model, its status as the foremost object of music criticism, its presumed value as the supreme container for artistic expression, its existential legitimacy as anything other than a nostalgia-driven anachronism. “
Reclaim Your Musical Life From The Algorithms!
“Listening is creative and personal, and with Discover Weekly I am aware of being profiled by forces I do not know and cannot see. I am being given an ongoing accessory for someone of my type. Often I hate the results, even if I like half the songs: I feel intensely frustrated by what it has reduced me to.”
Has Steven Spielberg ‘Saved’ This British Actor From A Life In Theatre?
Mark Rylance: “Whenever I mention the other films I’ve made to Steven Spielberg, his eyes go a bit glazed. Because in his mind he’s rescued me — rescued me from the slums of the theater! You know, discovered me, bless him.”
Orchestra Keeps Its Doors Open With Successful Kickstarter Campaign
“In January 2015 the 75-year-old ensemble organised a Kickstarter crowdfunding initiative, following the sudden cancellation of its state subsidy at the end of 2014. The £300,000 target needed to fund the 2015 season was successfully met with the help of private donations from individuals and local businesses.”
Eurovision Song Contest Revamps Scoring System
They feel the telecast needs more suspense.
What The Times Did The *First* Time The Met Produced An Opera By A Woman
“The Metropolitan Opera has just scheduled a work by a woman for the second time ever. Let’s hope she receives a warmer welcome than her predecessor.”
London Arts Unions Alarm: Crisis Talks Over English National Opera
Trade bodies BECTU, Equity and the Musicians’ Union are planning a joint crisis meeting to save English National Opera from becoming a “part-time company”.
Arizona Gets A New Conductor
Jose Luis Gomez will be the new music director of the Tucson Symphony. He “has been an in-demand guest conductor around the world following his 2010 first-place award at the prestigious International Conductors’ Competition Sir Georg Solti in Germany.”