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An Algorithm Has Created Every Possible Musical Melody So No One Can Ever Sue For Copyright Infringement. Un couple de musiniéristes fait chanter les plantes. Listen to the oldest song in the world written 3,400 years ago. In what is thought to be the oldest song ever created, a ‘sheet’ of music was discovered in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit and referenced back to around 3400 years ago.

Listen to the oldest song in the world written 3,400 years ago

Professor Anne Draffkorn Kilmer, who works as the curator at the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley, spent fifteen years deciphering the clay tablets which were uncovered and excavated in Syria by French archaeologists in the early 1950s. The tablets, it has been confirmed, formed “a complete cult hymn and is the oldest preserved song with notation in the world.”

Kilmer, who is also the professor of Assyriology at the University of California, worked alongside her colleagues Richard L. Crocker and Robert R. Afrorack and Africa's first DIY modular synth make some wild, delicious grooves - CDM Create Digital Music. Bamanya Brian from Uganda wanted to explore modular synthesis – so he turned his electronics skills to making the instruments he needed himself.

Afrorack and Africa's first DIY modular synth make some wild, delicious grooves - CDM Create Digital Music

The gear is DIY; the resulting music is irresistible. NOMADIC VOICES - SARDINIA/MONGOLIA - FULL CONCERT. Alan Lomax's Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 17,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings. A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s have been digitized and made available online for free listening.

Alan Lomax's Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 17,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings

This software can clone a person's voice by listening to a 5-second sample. New software separates vocals and instruments in recorded music Our pal Andy Baio has been experimenting with an audio separation library called spleeter “that uses machine learning to quickly and freely separate music into stems.”

This software can clone a person's voice by listening to a 5-second sample

It does a surprisingly good job, and he is using it to make funny mashups: nobody should have this kind of power pic.twitter.com/4vbl2MGK4Z — Andy Baio (@waxpancake) November 5, […] This hi-tech turntable brings your vinyl into the modern age. The 7 Best Steel Tongue Drums - Compact and Melodic Percussion. No matter if you’re musically experienced or not, a steel tongue drum is definitely one of the instruments you should try.

The 7 Best Steel Tongue Drums - Compact and Melodic Percussion

Beautifully sounding but yet easy to play, this instrument fits everyone. It doesn’t require years of training, or thousands of dollars like it’s the case with hang drums. Steel Tongue Drums are not electronic instruments, but they’re pretty epic so I wanted to write a guide on them! The Internet Archive Is Digitizing & Preserving Over 100,000 Vinyl Records: Hear 750 Full Albums Now. There seems to be widespread agreement—something special was lost in the rushed-to-market move from physical media to digital streaming.

The Internet Archive Is Digitizing & Preserving Over 100,000 Vinyl Records: Hear 750 Full Albums Now

We have come to admit that some older musical technologies cannot be improved upon. Musicians, producers, engineers spend thousands to replicate the sound of older analog recording technology, with all its quirky, inconsistent operation. And fans buy record players and vinyl records in surprisingly increasing numbers to hear the warm and fuzzy character of their sound. Neil Young, who has relentlessly criticized every aspect of digital recording, has dismissed the resurgence of the LP as a “fashion statement” given that most new albums released on vinyl are digital masters.

But buyers come to vinyl with a range of expectations, writes Ari Herstand at Digital Music News: “Vinyl is an entire experience. 108 Academy (@108academy) "He who knows the secret of so instagram post download - SaveIG. Over 16,000 sound effects from the BBC archive are now available for free. New Web Project Immortalizes the Overlooked Women Who Helped Create Rock and Roll in the 1950s.

“For sixty years, conventional wisdom has told us that women generally did not perform rock and roll during the 1950s,” writes Leah Branstetter, Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Case Western Reserve University.

New Web Project Immortalizes the Overlooked Women Who Helped Create Rock and Roll in the 1950s

Like so many cultural forms into which we are initiated, through education, personal interest, and general osmosis, this popular form of Western music—now a genre with seventy years under its belt—has functioned as an almost ideal example of the great man theory of history. It can seem like settled fact that Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, and their celebrated male contemporaries invented the music; and that women played passive roles as fans, studio audience members, groupies, personifications of cars and guitars....

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Musik durch Gestik – Es klingt dank Hand und Fuss - Kultur. Scheduled Maintenance - Nature Soundmap. ROCK INFLUENCERS. Psalm 53 Sung in Aramaic for Pope Francis by Georgians, Stunning. This 800-year-old Icelandic hymn sung in a train station is utterly haunting. 18 October 2016, 16:40 This devotional hymn was originally written in 1208, but its mesmerising beauty is completely timeless – as this spontaneous performance in a station in Germany proves.

This 800-year-old Icelandic hymn sung in a train station is utterly haunting

Sometimes the most profound moments of music are the simplest. An Icelandic indie-folk group walked into a resonant space in a train station in the German city of Wuppertal – and then this happened: The group is Árstíðir, and the music is the 13th-century Icelandic hymn "Heyr himna smiður", and adapted by Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson, one of Iceland's most important 20th-century composers.

Join classical music's biggest community - like Classic FM on Facebook. Magic Transistor. Radiooooo. Tasos Frantzolas: Everything you hear on film is a lie. Philly company digitizes 25,000 old records and they're free to download. Twenty-five thousand songs recorded onto 78RPM discs in the early 20th century have been released online, for free.

Philly company digitizes 25,000 old records and they're free to download

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