Interactive media such as video games rely heavily on music to create an immersive atmosphere, providing deeper emotional impact, and serving as a feedback mechanism for the player’s actions, letting ...

Apple Music users hoping for more algorithmic discovery options akin to Spotify now have a new personal radio station called Discovery Station. Finding new music can be a challenge, especially on a ...

Two musician-programmers have teamed up to create an algorithm to generate every possible music melody in order to stop copyright lawsuits. Credit: Getty Images/EyeEm It’s become a regular occurence ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. This warped reward system, by which musicians climb the streaming charts, can influence every aspect of a song, from the music ...

One bleary late night this summer, a friend played me The Ghost Trade, the lone 1986 album by Camberwell Now, a short-lived band formed from the ashes of seminal British art-punks This Heat. I ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Last week, a press release went out to tech and music reporters claiming that little-known startup Endel had ...

In the December issue of The Baffler, journalist Liz Pelly wrote a fascinating, widely discussed dissection of how the algorithms employed by major streaming services — particularly Spotify — are ...

Earlier this year I discovered Jonatan Liljedahl's AlgoScore, a Csound-based program for sound and music composition. Alas, at that time I was unable to run AlgoScore on the machines here at Studio ...

Stefan Hegerat reached his breaking point with Spotify. Last year, the Toronto drummer and composer made a decision that's becoming more common among independent musicians: he began the process of ...

Juli Clover, writing for MacRumors on a new addition to Apple Music: Apple Music today gained a new “Discovery Station,” which is located under the “Listen Now” section under Top Picks in the ‌Apple ...