#Music Tech

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Behind the scenes…Studio 1 rig for Yungblud - Amazon Music 👊

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[baglsasha]

The amount of times I've seen ppl online seeing something and saying "we could be using AI to do that can't wait to see how AI will change that in 5 years!" And like the thing they're talking abt would just make no sense.

Saw someone saying AI is totally gonna change how they trigger lights for concerts and like. No? No it isn't? Why would you ever use AI for that. Bands with big light shows either have them fully pre programmed and play to a click track so they stay synced with the visuals or they have the lights being triggered by triggers (mics) on the drums so everything stays synced with the band and then the like layout/coloring of lights being used gets changed by the light guy or is automated w/ software. Some bands even just have a really cracked light guy who manually triggers everything in time with the band (Meshuggah is the notable example).

How would LLM/AI tech do anything to "improve" that. What are you gonna train the AI on all of the band's recorded live shows so it tries to predict what the band will do at any given point and hits lights for it?? That seems why more failure prone than just playing to the visuals or syncing the visuals with the band???

AI ppl just know absolutely nothing abt the industries they want to disrupt they just think they're tech is the magic thing that'll disrupt everything.

[miashyperfixations]

DYLAN - THE GREATEST THINGS I'LL NEVER LEARN TOUR

15.02.2022 @ O2 Institute, Birmingham (2000 Capacity)

Written Feb 2023

This was my first concert of 2023. We were up on the balcony, so we were able to see the entire stage, and it's set up.

Having seen her a little under a year earlier, I knew what to expect - not only for the concert style but for some of the songs that were previously unreleased at that point. Dylan has slowly become my new favourite artist with her pop lyrics so explicitly influenced by old school rock. Having toured with the likes of Tate McRae, Bastille & Ed Sheeran since last year, she and her band have grown so much, and it's been fun to watch. It's crazy to think that only 360 days before this concert, I saw her perform at a venue with a capacity of 250 and now, at one with a capacity, exactly 8 times that.

Her mixtape 'The Greatest Thing I'll Never Learn' was among my top 10 of 2022, even though it was only released in October, so it was exciting to hear some of my favourite songs live for the first time in person such as 'blisters' and 'lovestruck'. I particularly enjoyed her cover of Harry Styles' 'Kiwi', which she and other precious concert attendees managed to keep a secret from everyone so no one was expecting it. Additionally, one song I was looking forward to, one that everyone expected to hear, was a song of hers that came on 24.02.2023 alongside an extended version of the mixtape called 'Every heart but mine' which I had already heard in 2022 at the other show and it had become not just one of my favourites l, but her whole fanbase's meaning that it was highly anticipated within her community. Moreover, in its recorded studio version she gathered a group of pop musicians composed of Cat Burns, Rachel Chinouriri, Mae Muller, Sody & Beren Olivia to provide many backing vocals and compose a choir in the background of the song.

Overall, this has been my favourite concert to date, even though we weren't in general admission. I loved every second of it and can't wait to see Dylan grow even more as an artist and as a person.

[djrenigade]

Social Stuff...

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Bruce Munro: ‘Waterlilies’ (2012) Location: Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania

100 shining colorful waterlilies made of 65,000 recycled CDs float at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania creating a light installation.

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College started

I had to wake up at 6:30 for the first time in like 2 months and dug up my blazer jacket that I bought for prom and paired it with a white summer shirt, a yellow hoodie, light grey jeans and a tie I nicked from my dad and had to watch a youtube video just to figure out how to tie it. I don't know why the blazer looks grey and crumpled in the photo, in real life it's turquoise and has less noticeable creases in it. Mum now sees what I mean when I say that hoodies, ties and blazers go well together. God it got hot while walking though but it was worth it in the name of style.

I also had a packed lunch for the first time as keyboard lessons were more expensive due to them being twice as long so buying hot lunches was chucked out of the budget. I made a cheese bagel sandwich with mozzarella slices and packed it in a bag with a little pancake, 4 crackers, a little brownie and a banana that I didn't eat because it had been waiting for so long that it was going brown. I didn't think about how all the food would sit so everything that wasn't in the sandwich bag (the sandwich) had a faint taste of banana. I also bought a packet of crisps at the college's cafe as I was still a bit hungry afterwards so maybe I should figure that out.

I walked 20 minutes and across a roundabout to reach my new bus stop and a new bus came every 15 minutes so I didn't bother mesmerising the timetable. Luckily I live quite close so the journey only took like 35 minutes and I was an hour early and didn't know what to do. Very few students were there and I was mostly looking for the library so I could vibe until I had A-Level Music. After a google search I found the building but turns out it's being moved to some other building (there's like 8 buildings across 2 sides of a road and it resembles a uni campus) so I just drew in the study centre by myself for about half an hour. Someone I knew (kinda) from my old school came up to me to say hello. I walked over to the building with music in but ended up a couple minutes late as I was washing my hands when the bell went off and I though "oh it's the warning bell" when no, no it wasn't. The teacher didn't seem to care considering it's the first day.

The lessons are so much longer here. So long that in the middle there was a 15 minute break. I didn't really have anywhere better to be so I remained in the classroom drawing. There seems to be a lot of emphasis on performance but I kinda suck at preforming. At least A-Level also has composition. I had to leave in the last half hour though to go to an orthodontist appointment and I left when they were talking about intervals and intervals are cool and now I have to do catch up work just because my teeth jewellery needed tightening.

I ate my lunch at a table all by myself in the student commons room and I don't know if all the groups already knew each other or if this was a case of extroverts having good social skills, but almost everyone was sitting in a group. One of the teachers talked to me when I was eating my bagel. Nothing deep just general new school small talk. He said I'll find new friends due to the way classes are structured around A-levels, which you choose yourself so there's a common interest, but tbh I'm probably just going to be known as that weird quiet kid that knows way too much on video game consoles. I don't mind not having any friends my entire time there, but when you've been stuck in an all girls private school since you were a toddler to now, it shelters you and I want to not be that as I'll have one hell of a shock once I enter the real world and/or act like a snob unintentionally. Eh, whatever. I bought the aforementioned crisps in beef flavoured and it was mostly air dammit. I then did my music homework in one of the practice rooms so I could test the musical dictation on the piano. I then just started playing whatever and some girl hovered around my door so I let her in and apparently she could hear me blasting my music because I have no dynamic control on a piano and she said that she really liked it. Then my music teacher appeared and I said I was doing my homework, and then they both left. Someone was playing some ballad piano song (I assume it's the girl as it sounds like it's coming from the other room) which would occasionally change to fur elise. Then I still had some time left but I was bored so after asking a history teacher for directions on where the mac lab is, I went into Music Technology like 10 minutes early and was just fiddling with the mac until everyone else came in. (Music tech is a BTEC which is a different exam board and is more DAW stuff while Music A-Level is performance and theory. I was supposed to be doing Computer Science but I fucked up my exam because OCR sucks the devil's ass while marking so I didn't have the qualifications so the careers people suggested music tech as the 3rd subject and oh god I'm so thankful as I'm certain my college uses OCR for it's A Levels and I would rip my wrists open and develop a caffeine addiction if I had to deal with OCR again).

The actual lesson was interesting but I was the only one putting my hand up most of the time and also I've already used a DAW before (LMMS) so I picked up on how to use Logic Pro quicker than the others (I think, idk I was sitting by myself on an empty row) but Logic Pro has cool sounds that I want in a soundfont, but is full of little things that makes it a bit annoying. And mac. Mac OS is annoying. I wasn't really following the instructions and was mostly doing my own thing in Logic Pro. Use this plugin to automatically augment a bassline? Nah I'm going to keep pressing keys with this acoustic bass sound until I get a cool bassline. I stayed for half an hour afterwards to finish the song as it was cool and this is what I did:

There was also theory stuff too. In groups we had to type out a list of places you find music and I just ignored the people in my group and wrote my own list. Also music kept randomly playing and the teacher couldn't figure out where it was coming from so I listed "the poltergeist from the mac lab" as one place music comes from. After that I took the bus home and now I'm going to watch the 2nd Deadpool film because I'm tired and don't feel like doing anything but sit in my chair and morph into it.

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Apple: transparent iPod 5th Generation (2005)

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Music Tech Europe : unir les forces pour l'innovation dans le secteur de la musique

Music Tech Europe, une nouvelle association faîtière, a été créée pour unir l’industrie musicale et la technologie à travers l’Europe, marquant ainsi un engagement collectif en faveur de l’innovation et de la croissance durable dans le secteur de la musique. Cette initiative, regroupant des associations nationales de technologie musicale et des organismes de l’industrie musicale, vise à devenir…

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Native Instruments – Massive X + Expansion Bundle 2023 Download

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Wires

[thefinn-ternet]

August 9th

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#CrowdedHouse

For the techs and the musicians - an article about the music tech and rig behind Crowded House 🎶🎶🎶

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this is kinda genius idk

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Music Tech Startup Pitch Competition “Swimming with Narwhals” Launches

Community, Competition, and a Carousel: Why Music Tectonics is for Startups Swimming with Narwhals Music Tech Startup Pitch Competition Launches: Application Deadline is August 8, 2023 Music Tectonics Conference has opened applications for Swimming with Narwhals Music Tech Startup Pitch Competition. Startups working in music innovation are invited to apply and attend the conference October…