Kagami review: Mixed-reality gig brings dead headliner back to life
19 July 2023
Kagami, a mixed-reality concert at this year's Manchester International Festival, shows the fresh challenges and possibilities of state-of-the-art tech
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Beatles documentary Get Back used custom AI to strip unwanted sound
24 December 2021
Sound engineers used custom-made artificial intelligence to strip out unwanted audio from footage of the band in the studio
Sisters with Transistors review: Brilliant electronic music pioneers
20 April 2021
Sisters with Transistors, directed by Lisa Rovner, celebrates the women whose breakthroughs in early electronic music laid the foundations of modern styles – and whose work has been overlooked by many
AI can grade your skill at piano by watching you play
22 January 2021
An artificial intelligence that can grade the skill of a pianist with near-human accuracy could be used in online music tutoring
Electronic: a trip through the history of music
31 July 2020
With many of the world’s dance floors currently empty, the latest exhibition at the Design Museum, London, which evokes some of the same experiences, is very welcome.
How an artist made a concert from five 40-year-old Commodore computers
9 June 2020
Soaked in the iconography of 1980s computing, the glitchy beats and green, text-based displays of Robert Henke's show, CBM 8032 AV seem an unlikely concert piece for today, but amongst today's hi-resolution graphics and sound, it's surprisingly refreshing.
MIDI 2.0: The code that will define the future of sound has arrived
6 May 2020
Four decades ago, we introduced a standard way of encoding digital sound. Its first ever upgrade could lead to new genres of music and ways of experiencing sound
Listen to a bendy audio speaker made from liquid heavy metal
4 December 2019
A loudspeaker made from heavy metal that works when bent brings us one step closer to audio devices that can be worn directly on the skin
Drill music with positive lyrics is more popular than negative songs
18 November 2019
An analysis of drill music, a form of hip hop controversially linked to gang violence by UK police, on YouTube has found that positive songs are more popular
Don't miss: Armstrong, the science of music and codebreaking
3 July 2019
This week, check out the latest film on the moon landings, try some physics karaoke and visit the Science Museum’s display on codebreaking down the ages
