Deirdre Loughridge

How to Dig for Music Without Spotify Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week’s column...

I enjoyed this article, can’t wait to try blank drecking pitchfork.com/thepitch/how...

Music and Machines CFP reminder, deadline soon! #musicology #musictechnology

Also, “It should be noted that, when considering market dilution, the proper comparison isn’t to a world with no LLMs, but to a world where LLMs weren’t trained on copyrighted books.”

“Indeed, it seems likely that market dilution will often cause plaintiffs to decisively win the fourth factor - and thus win the fair use question overall - in cases like this.”

Meta may have won their generative AI case but the ruling is really worth a read. “Courts can’t stick their heads in the sand to an obvious way that new technology might severely harm the incentive to create, just because the issue has not come up before…. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Philip K. Dick’s “The Preserving Machine” is now at the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments. Such a weird and fascinating story of a machine for preserving musical scores by turning them into animals (spoiler alert: does not work as envisioned) imaginaryinstruments.org/the-preservi...

Sonic Circulations – Penn Press The role music, sound, and voice played in modern knowledge production in the early twentieth centuryDerived from the Latin words circum (round) and ire (to ...

Coming soon! I have an essay in this on Daphne Oram’s visions for an art-science research center www.pennpress.org/978151282803...

CALL CHIGIANA CONFERENCE 2025 - Chigiana Journal CHIGIANA CONFERENCE 2025 Music and Machines CALL ENG CALL ITA CALL FOR PAPERS Siena – Accademia Musicale Chigiana4-6 December 2025 The international conference Music and Machines explores how music, c...

CFP: Music and Machines - come talk about how new technologies and computational thinking have and are reshaping musical creation, performance and listening! Conference at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in December, proposals due June 30 www.journal.chigiana.org/call-chigian...

New to the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments, Jonathan Ulman’s marvelous snare drums reimagined. And coming soon: The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments, the book! By yours truly and Thomas Patteson, from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social in 2026 imaginaryinstruments.org/snare-drums-...

Learned about Tipu’s tiger-organ and Tania James’s book Loot from Anna Steppler’s excellent paper at a global keyboards workshop last week. In James’s words, this musical invention “extends the imagination” imaginaryinstruments.org/tipus-tiger/

The comic is a wellspring of invention. Happy April 1st from the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments - enjoy this classic! imaginaryinstruments.org/polyphonic-t...

New at the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments - Android Orpheus from a story by Jennifer Marie Brissett imaginaryinstruments.org/android-orph...

And 19-note-scale instruments from an imaginary country imaginaryinstruments.org/pluiging-and...

New to the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments! Personal music device and hand-cranked instrument from the film Prospect (2018) imaginaryinstruments.org/personal-mus...

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Delighted to share that our edited volume, The Science Music Borderlands, won the 2024 Ruth Solie Award from the American Musicological Society! Thank you to all who helped on the project.

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And it's here! From UChicagoPress, a musical exploration of human-or-machine logic and its alternatives, from androids to so-called AI

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Tracks 34-37 Arca, “Riquiquí” (2020) & from Riquiquí; Bronze-Instances(1-100) (2020), the album of its 100 remixes via AI - or in her term that steps outside the usual frame of human comparison to contemplate machine capabilities, "intelligent sentience" youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Hexorcismos, Transfiguración (2020). An example of alternative to likening/comparing AI to human, Hexorcismos describes "approaching the Neural Network as an alchemical technology," which aptly characterizes the process of style transfer bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlay...

Provided to YouTube by Redeye WorldwideEmbryo · JlinEmbryo℗ 2021 DeccaReleased on: 2021-10-19Music Publisher: DeccaComposer: Jerrilynn PattonAuto-generated ... Embryo

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From "Dark Energy" (2016) Jlin - Expand

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Holly Herndon and Jlin (feat. Spawn) - Godmotherhttp://smarturl.it/GodmotherWebsite: http://www.hollyherndon.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holly_h... Holly Herndon & Jlin (feat. Spawn) - Godmother (Official Video)

Trk 31 Holly Herndon, Jlin, Spawn “Godmother” (2019) lent itself to idea of AI acquiring sentience; listening to Jlin's "Expand" (2015) & "Embryo" (2021) (Trks 32-33) clarifies sound of a model trained on Herndon’s voice & transfer to Jlin’s music www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc9O...

Trks 29-30 are from Dadabots, Can't Play Instruments, Vol 1 (2021), an album of neural network-generated hardcore punk that continued the duo's front of humanless musical creation (while elsewhere @dadabots.bsky.social discuss "using the neural nets as an instrument") www.youtube.com/embed/Mzv9s2...

Track 28 Laetitia Sonami, “Breathing in Birds and Others” (2017) stands in for this artist talk by Sonami in 2013, where she demonstrated her bird with magnetic coils (47:40); this talk was my introduction to neural nets archive.org/details/sonami

George Lewis and Vijay Iyer in Concert WELLESLEY COLLEGE PRESENTS:George Lewis and Vijay Iyer in ConcertGeorge Lewis collaborates in concert with Vijay Iyer, one of the most exciting jazz pianists...

George Lewis and Vijay Iyer in Concert (2012) with Voyager, which they discuss @ 36:30, foregrounding both its need for help to function and capacity for disobedience (a sociomusical imaginary for AI between the extremes of autonomous or "just a tool") www.youtube.com/watch?si=kkB...

Disc: From Darkness, LightAlbum: From Darkness, LightName: 1. PreludeTrack: 01Author: Emily HowellYear: 2007 ------------------------------------------------... Emily Howell - From Darkness, Light - 1. Prelude

Track 27 David Cope, “From Darkness, Light” (2010) illustrates one pole of AI in the socio-musical imaginary, with anthropomorphic name Emily Howell emphasizing humanlikeness and implying its generalization to autonomy, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHJq...

MNEK’s debut album, LANGUAGE, is out now: https://mnek.lnk.to/LanguageAlbum Get tickets to see MNEK live: https://bit.ly/2ODlu3i Follow MNEKFacebook https://... MNEK - At Night (I Think About You)

Track 26 MNEK, “At Night (I Think About You)” (2016) youtu.be/ieTghzEjayY?...