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12/08/2015

December 8, 2015 at 4:08 pm by Thomas Van Buskirk Music Education Hackathon Focuses on New Ways to Teach Music Learning music should be fun, although you might get the wrong impression from stories of those who took lessons as kids. Hours of practicing solo, struggling to translate a cryptic set of…

09/11/2015

September 11, 2015 at 2:44 pm by Jonathan Marmor New Musical Instruments Invented, Debuted at Monthly Music Hackathon NYC This summer, the world gained several brand new musical instruments courtesy of the aptly-named New Musical Instruments Hackathon, part of the Monthly Music Hackathon NYC series.…

09/03/2015

September 1, 2015 at 3:01 pm by Eliot Van Buskirk Hack Out West: Trivia, Cover Art Doodling, Group Listening, and More Just before the Way Out West music festival in Gothenberg, Sweden, approximately 60 hackers and music enthusiasts gathered for the Hack Out West hackathon. These clever people flexe…

06/17/2015

June 16, 2015 at 3:30 pm by Eliot Van Buskirk Clever Web App Finds ‘The Drop’ in Songs Based on Parts People Play Over and Over Wait for it, wait for it… there. Now let’s hear it again! That’s what people do quite a bit, as demonstrated by the following video of The Drop Machine, built by music hack…

04/29/2015

April 29, 2015 at 12:42 pm by Eliot Van Buskirk Surprisingly Amazing: The Words Associated with Every Kind of Music This is a guest post from insights.spotify.com, which is edited by the editor of this site. Music fans, prepare to lose a few minutes. Possibly hours. The latest in time-sucking music…

09/05/2014

September 5, 2014 at 1:21 pm by Eliot Van Buskirk New Musical Instruments Hackathon Is Harbinger of Things to Come For many, the word “hackathon” conjures, if anything, caffeinated techies coding away in competition, because hackathon prizes can be substantial, as can the glory that accompanies a wi…

08/15/2014

Public Service Announcement

September 12, 2012 at 11:24 amby Eliot Van BuskirkHow To Wear In-Ear Headphones ProperlyDespite suffering a now-infamous trip to the emergency room due to a rubber earbud tip getting lodged in my ear canal, I maintain that in-ear headphones offers the best combination of sound quality, portability,…

07/15/2014

July 15, 2014 at 11:36 amby Eliot Van BuskirkHackers Dream Up Fresh Ways to Visualize MusicMany objects that play recorded music have screens. Sometimes the screen plays a music video, but mostly it displays helpful — if static — information about what’s playing. The possibilities for depicting musi…

07/03/2014

Listen to songs about U.S. history with this neat interactive timeline hack from Mark Stoughton.

July 3, 2014 at 12:12 pmby Eliot Van BuskirkMusical Timeline Renders 31 Snippets of U.S. History in SongAmerica’s Soundtrack won’t teach you everything about U.S. history, but it presents some key moments through the lens of popular music — 31 songs about historical events that actually happened on…

05/27/2014

May 27, 2014 at 5:19 pmby Eliot Van BuskirkThe Most Intriguing Creations from Music Hack Day San FranciscoSocks that vibrate to music. Artist playlists based on your tweets and your weather. A visualizer that reacts not only to the music that’s playing, but also to your flailing hands.Music Hack Day…

04/11/2014

Another one from Nate Ashcroft

April 11, 2014 at 4:57 pmby Nate AshcroftHum: A Songwriter’s Notebook for iPhoneArtists often find inspiration in their surroundings. Unless they are quick to jot down their ideas, those can be lost forever.This is precisely why some recording artists use the notepad functions of their smartphones a...