Intersections of Sound Technology, Music Cognition, Sound Healing, and Music Therapy
It’s hard to pin point what a music festival is about these days. Whether it’s crossing off that ferris wheel photo on Instagram to frantically figuring out what you’re going to wear, is it even about the music anymore? This article was originally published on Forbes. See the original post.
Read Full ArticleIn both music and manner, Quincy Jones has always registered — from afar, anyway — as smooth, sophisticated, and impeccably well-connected. (That’s what earning 28 Grammy awards and co-producing Michael Jackson’s biggest-selling albums will do.) But in person, the 84-year-old music-industry macher is far spikier and more complicated. “All I’ve ever done is tell the truth,” says […]
Read Full ArticleThe beginning of 2018 highlighted yet another area of the entertainment industry that’s suffering from some vast gender inequality: music. While the dominance of female pop stars like Beyoncé or Ariana Grande might make it seem as though women run the music world, in comparison to men, the big picture numbers are shockingly low. A […]
Read Full ArticleThe reckoning for abusive men that started in Hollywood has turned its eye towards the music industry. This week, after three women accused Republic Records group president Charlie Walk of sexual harassment and assault, he was placed on leave from the company pending an investigation and will not appear on the final episode of The […]
Read Full ArticleJust 13% of those composing music for screen are women, according to membership figures from APRA AMCOS, the organisation that looks after copyright for songwriters, composers and music publishers in Australia. Female screen composers sit at the intersection of two industries – music and film – that have both been recognised as being male-dominated. To […]
Read Full ArticleRead her lips: Britney Spears is pissed and she wants credit. In a recent interview that ran on Israeli TV, the pop diva decried those who accuse her of lip-syncing. “A lot of people think that I don’t sing live,” Spears said. “Because I’m dancing so much I do have a little bit of playback, […]
Read Full ArticleMick Rock is The Man Who Shot the Seventies, but he doesn’t like the term—and he doesn’t much like being called an icon, either. “All that means is I’m getting old,” he tells me on a phone call from his home in Manhattan. But these things tend to stick: His photographs have captured and defined […]
Read Full ArticleWhen radio became popular in the 1920s, many believed this was the end for recording artists and live music. Suddenly, music was being played with no compensation or income streams available. Record companies worried that sales would drop. Venue owners believed people wouldn’t go out and see live music any more. Musicians’ Unions and Performing […]
Read Full ArticleIn New York City, a classical saxophone player I know was asked to play some live music for an event at a large, successful store that sells computers, phones, and other electronic equipment. The event was a product launch, and they wanted something innovative. The sax player was interested. The man from the store then […]
Read Full ArticleJust like that, and it was gone. What.cd, an online music community that had operated in the shadows of the private BitTorrent underground piracy scene since October 2007, suddenly shut down on Thursday, leaving its estimated 150,000 former active members memorializing the site’s place in the short history of online music consumption. “What I will […]
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