Hacker News with Generative AI: Music

What Do Van Halen and Brown M&M's Have to Do with Safety? (safetydimensions.com.au)
There’s a long tradition of musicians and actors adding absurd demands to their performance contracts just because they could.
Music, Performance, Contracts, Safety
9 points by mooreds 5 hours ago | 1 comments
1977 Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune (openculture.com)
Even if you’ve nev­er read Frank Her­bert’s Dune, you may well have encoun­tered its adap­ta­tions to a vari­ety of oth­er media: com­ic books, video games, board games, tele­vi­sion series, and of course films, David Lynch’s 1984 ver­sion and Denis Vil­leneu­ve’s two-parter ear­li­er this decade. But before any of those came Dune, the jazz-funk album by key­boardist and band­leader David Matthews.
Music, Adaptation, Dune
93 points by cainxinth 1 day ago | 27 comments
A web platform for using YouTube as a drum sequencer (youtubesequencer.com)
Music, Web Development, Creative Projects, YouTube
139 points by eastmountain 3 days ago | 21 comments
Mt32-pi developer quits due to community harassment (github.com/dwhinham)
A work-in-progress baremetal MIDI synthesizer for the Raspberry Pi 3 or above, based on Munt, FluidSynth and Circle.
Music, Raspberry Pi, Open Source, Community, Harassment
44 points by zdw 3 days ago | 54 comments
There are no more bands (2024) (theneedledrop.com)
Hey, everyone. Rockthony Bandtano here, the internet's busiest music nerd. I hope you guys are doing well.
Music, Opinion, Commentary
28 points by kleiba 3 days ago | 12 comments
What happened when REM went mainstream (yalereview.org)
Music, Culture, 1980s, Rock Music
69 points by johnshades 3 days ago | 85 comments
High-School Band Contests Turn Marching into a Sport–and an Art (newyorker.com)
Band kids today don’t just parade up and down the field playing fight songs. They flow across it in shifting tableaux, with elaborate themes and spandex-clad dancers.
Music, Art, Performance, Education, Culture
9 points by PaulHoule 3 days ago | 1 comments
How Louis Armstrong shaped the sound of Ghana (atlasobscura.com)
When jazz great Louis Armstrong’s plane touched down in Accra—the capital of what was then the British Gold Coast—on a spring morning in 1956, thousands of spectators awaited him on the tarmac.
Music, History, Ghana
45 points by prmph 3 days ago | 7 comments
Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus (chillyatc.com)
Blend live Air Traffic Control with ambient music for perfect focus ✨
Software, Aviation, Music, Productivity
196 points by usernameis42 4 days ago | 126 comments
Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube (surasshu.com)
Music, Artificial Intelligence, YouTube, Content Moderation
96 points by jsheard 4 days ago | 83 comments
Nostalgia for Physical Media (sicpers.info)
While I have access to streaming services that offer most of the music that the labels the services deal with still publish, I also have a significant collection of music on physical media, and do most of my listening to prerecorded music by playing entire albums, in order, from a physical format. I recently shared a not-entirely-serious overview of the nostalgia for physical prerecorded audio formats with some friends, and here’s the annotated version.
Music, Media, Nostalgia, Technology
38 points by ingve 4 days ago | 43 comments
A Guide to Japanese Listening Bars (tokyoweekender.com)
Listening bars are evolving and gradually spreading across the world. Nowadays, there are listening bars in the hippest towns in the coolest neighborhoods, from Shibuya in Tokyo to Brooklyn in New York. And the best thing about them is that each one is completely different from the next.
Japan, Music, Bars, Culture, Travel
3 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 0 comments
I put a Spotify jukebox on my website so you can control what I'm listening to (raunak.io)
Control what's playing on my phone in real-time.
Web Development, Music, User Interaction
15 points by rd 6 days ago | 15 comments
I use two trumpets to play the flute [video] (youtube.com)
Music, Performance Art, Video
30 points by rhema 6 days ago | 5 comments
You can still own music (ergaster.org)
In the 2000s I spent a lot of time with headphones on. Most of my pocket money went into CDs. I bought them, ripped them, loaded them into my music player and listened to them countless times.
Music, Ownership, Technology
30 points by LorenDB 7 days ago | 13 comments
Learning fast and accurate absolute pitch judgment in adulthood (springer.com)
Absolute pitch (AP) refers to the ability to identify the pitch name of a tone that is presented in isolation.
Music, Science, Learning, Cognition
173 points by dr_dshiv 7 days ago | 131 comments
The Floppotron 3.0 (2022) (silent.org.pl)
After a long time it’s time for a big upgrade of my computer hardware orchestra. Here it is! The bigger and better Floppotron 3.0. 512 floppy disk drives, 4 scanners and 16 hard disk drives.
Music, Hardware, Creative Projects
174 points by pabs3 10 days ago | 25 comments
Jooki – Taking Control of a Forgotten Device (nv1t.github.io)
Jooki was a dream come true for parents—an intuitive, screen-free audio player that let kids enjoy music and stories with the tap of a token. But that dream turned into frustration when the company behind Jooki went bankrupt, leaving countless devices bricked and families frustrated. But what if Jooki isn’t as dead as it seems?
Hardware, Music, Startups, Consumer Products
60 points by nfriedly 11 days ago | 6 comments
Robot Band Plays "Axel F" [video] (youtube.com)
Robotics, Music, Entertainment, Video
7 points by amichail 11 days ago | 2 comments
Music Generation AI Models (maximepeabody.com)
Recently, I took on a side project that involved packaging a new music generation AI model into a nice user experience (www.text-to-sample.com). Simply by describing a sound, such as “African drums”, or “electric guitar feedback”, and specifying a duration, an AI can generate the sound, which can then be used as part of the song creation process.
Artificial Intelligence, Music, Generative AI
39 points by peab 11 days ago | 55 comments
Why a 43-year-old video game just won a Grammy (polygon.com)
In-between showering Compton-born rapper Kendrick Lamar with gilded gramophones over the weekend, the Grammy Awards also crowned Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord as the show’s third annual Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media.
Video Games, Music Awards, Gaming History, Music
8 points by adrian_mrd 11 days ago | 3 comments
OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser (opendaw.studio)
Music Production, Web Development, Software, Music
209 points by raggi 12 days ago | 130 comments
Dreams 'crushed' as Ticketmaster cancels fans' Oasis '25 tickets (theguardian.com)
Oasis fans have said their “dreams have been crushed” after Ticketmaster cancelled their tickets to the band’s reunion tour, accusing them of being bots.
Music, Ticketmaster, Oasis
17 points by c420 12 days ago | 3 comments
When Louis Armstrong conquered Chicago (honest-broker.com)
If you want to understand 20th century American music, you really must start with Louis Armstrong.
Music, History, Biography, American Culture
98 points by paulpauper 13 days ago | 14 comments
"I'm a Barbie girl" but it's a three voice fugue (2022) [video] (youtube.com)
Music, YouTube, Videos, Artificial Intelligence
36 points by ciconia 14 days ago | 5 comments
YouTube restores SineVibes channel after Peter Kirn & Ars Technica get involved (bsky.app)
YouTube, Music, Controversy, Journalism, Social Media
78 points by richrichardsson 16 days ago | 34 comments
FreeBSD for hi-fi audio: real-time processing, equalizer, MPD and FFmpeg (m4c.pl)
A complete guide to configuring FreeBSD as an audiophile audio server: setting up system and audio subsystem parameters, real-time operation, bit-perfect signal processing, and the best methods for enabling and parameterising the system graphic equalizer (equalizer) and high-quality audio equalization with FFmpeg filters. Linux users will also find useful information, especially in the context of configuring and personalising the MPD player and filters.
Audiophile, FreeBSD, Operating Systems, Music, Linux
101 points by m4c-pl 18 days ago | 39 comments
Show HN: Modest – musical harmony library for Lua (github.com/esbudylin)
Music, Programming, Libraries, Lua
76 points by esbudylin 18 days ago | 7 comments
Music experiment shows how a concert can draw you into a community (phys.org)
The audience holds their breath in unison, and when the music turns emotional, everyone sits perfectly still together. These are the initial findings from the world's largest music experiment.
Music, Science, Community, Experiments
5 points by PaulHoule 22 days ago | 0 comments
Making the video that made Gorillaz (animationobsessive.substack.com)
Welcome! It’s time for a new Sunday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Glad you could join us.
Animation, Music, Gorillaz
222 points by darekkay 22 days ago | 58 comments