Thomas Brett
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On Non-Algorithmic Music Recommendations
“In Spotify’s view…when users search for and listen to music they are providing a measurable set of inputs from which musical tastes and desires can be extrapolated. This user behavior is recorded, compared and evaluated against that of other users, then sorted into metadata and used to calculate every song and artist’s degree of relevance… Continue reading
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The Perfect Room: Two Perspectives
“When you put on a pair of headphones you are wearing the studio on your head, which is 100 percent reproducible. I’ve never been in a room that affected how my headphones sound.” – Andrew Scheps “What you perceive when you listen to a mix isn’t some kind of objective reality: it’s almost entirely constructed… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Kit Mackintosh’s “Neon Screams” (2021)
“Vocal psychedelia is the omni-genre at the epicenter of our new musical mythology, from Jamaica to Africa to America.” […] “Auto-Tuned artists are the new synthesizers — they’re the new samplers — and the sounds they make recalibrate your consciousness.” […] “Music simulates the future. It war-games it. All those sci-fi sounds it produces, all… Continue reading
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