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Jazz-singing robot could shed light on consciousness
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Michael Ricci
ROBOTS and humans will soon be living in harmony. A singing robot is being taught to improvise jazz duets with a human in a project that researchers hope will shed light on the nature of consciousness. Antonio Chella at the University of Palermo, Italy, is working with a Telenoid robot, developed by the Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory in Japan. To start with, the Telenoid will be trained to mimic the movements and simple sounds made by a human singer, as well ...
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Hub and Spokes: The Key to Driving Fans to Your Band Website
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HypeBot
By David Dufresne, CEO of musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle In a previous blog post we talked about the importance of driving fans to your website. In this post, we'll go over the “Hub & Spokes" analogy and method to help drive traffic to your site using your social media profiles, and some of the best ways you can use content to do that. Hub & Spokes A lot of artists we work with, or meet at different events, are ...
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Blue Note Records Launches Innovative New Spotify App
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Michael Ricci
EMI Music’s legendary Blue Note Records has announced the launch today of an innovative new app within the popular online music streaming service Spotify. The Blue Note app provides a rich user experience by creating a space to explore and discover music spanning the entire history of the label from 1939 to present. The app traces the label’s evolution from the early jazz of Sidney Bechet to the trailblazing bebop of Thelonious Monk, from Art Blakey’s quintessential hard bop thru ...
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6 Top Music Concert Apps
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HypeBot
Guest post by Denise Lu of Evolver.fm. Concerts apps are mostly similar, in that they typically mash the now-familiar GPS on your phone against show listing databases. But when you're on the run, trying to find that last-minute concert or be among the first to score tickets to something before it sells out or scalpers ruin the party for everyone, only a handful will actually do the job and get you tickets on time. I've missed too many a good ...
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Musomap: Google Maps Meets Twitter for Musicians
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HypeBot
The ways that musicians seek out and find their creative collaborators have come a long way in the digital space. There now exist a number of sites that go well beyond Craigslist and focus specifically on connecting musicians, and each has its own unique value offering. One such site that made its way onto our radar is MusoMap, a cool and interactive Google Map that puts the focus on getting in touch with musicians far and wide and starting a conversation. ...
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Spaghetti Monster: The Plight of Instant Playlists
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HypeBot
Guest post by Kyle Bylin of Sidewinder.fm Listening to an instant playlist on Spotify is like eating spaghetti off the floor, because a majority of the songs it throws at you don't stick. What you're left with is a sloppily compiled playlist that tastes like linoleum, but you try to consume the songs anyway. Filtr, a popular Spotify playlist generator app, allows users to enter several artists, genres, and Facebook friends, among other things, into a search box. It then ...
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Technology: It Really Hasn't Changed Our Taste in Music...
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Digital Music News
The past decade has witnessed the most insane upheavals in music technology. Everything's changed, but how much has musical taste itself changed during that period? According to data we've looked at, the answer is not that much, even though the ways we access, discover, and share our music have been completely revolutionized.
Of course, some things have changed taste-wise. Over the past few years, electronic music has found its way into the mainstream, infused in pop music of all kinds. ...
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Deezer Continues Expansion as Music Streamer Launches in Asia
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HypeBot
Music streamer Deezer had launched in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand bringing its total to 91 territories worldwide. Deezer will exist both as a standalone service in all three markets and through partner dtac in Thailand. With promised launches in Indonesia and the Philippines in the coming weeks, Asia offers a huge opportunity for the European-based streaming music service. Deezer's business model has been to partner with telecommunications networks such as Orange, T-Mobile and Belgacom elsewhere. But despite it's rapid global ...
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