bedside manners
Tag: music
Top Music Pirate
RNS was the most pervasive and infamous Internet piracy group in history. In 11 years, RNS leaked more than 20k albums. For much of this time, the group’s best asset was Glover—there was scarcely a person younger than 30 who couldn’t trace music in their collection to him
The lord has risen
the hoff is back, with no hassle, and he’s not going to leave us this time.
Quantum Music
A pure quantum musical state would then be made up of a linear combination of the 7 notes with a specific probability associated with each. And a quantum melody would be the evolution of such a state over time.
An audience listening to such a melody would have a bizarre experience. In the classical world, every member of the audience hears the same sequence of notes. But when a quantum musical state is observed, it can collapse into any one of the notes that make it up. The note that is formed is entirely random but the probability that it occurs depends on the precise linear makeup of the state.
this sounds like a greg egan novel.
Waiting for the Subway
the difference between your boring town and nyc
Streaming rates
how is there a factor 600 difference in these rates? i have no idea what a “fair” remuneration for artists is, but clearly neither does anyone else.
World’s smallest guitar
The guitar has 6 strings, each string 50 nanometers wide. If plucked the strings would resonate, but at inaudible frequencies.
old, i know, but: so metal.
Most metal goat
Biquette spent the first half of her life in a milking factory, and was then handed over to the farm, where she immediately started to hang out at the shows. “Seeing as the barn floor where we throw the concerts is wooden, I think that she felt the vibrations in her hooves”. Flo added that the goat really enjoyed any settings with lots of people, and would hang out whenever there was a gathering. Biquette was very tame, and followed the Malaysian grindcore band around like a dog. “When it was Wormrot’s turn to play, the goat suddenly went in front of the crowd and watched them play the whole set. It was just chilling around the corner when other bands were playing.” And grindcore wasn’t Biquette’s only vice. She loved tobacco and alcohol, which might have even contributed to her early demise.

DIY synth
In 1979, 14-year-old Andy Popplewell built his own 6 track mixer, constructed his own synth, wrote a synth pop album in his mum’s garage and recorded it himself between 1981 and 1983; making 1 single cassette copy. That cassette has now been released as an album.
letter to the Beastie Boys
We don’t want to fight with you. We love you and we are actually huge fans.When we made our parody version of your song, ‘Girls’, we did it with the best of intentions. We wanted to transform it into a powerful anthem for girls.
classy. none of that biz speak nonsense about reaching out etc.