Hacker News with Generative AI: Music

Val Kilmer: Top Gun, Batman and The Doors actor dies aged 65 (bbc.com)
Actor Val Kilmer, who starred in some of the biggest movies of the 1980s and 90s, including Top Gun and Batman Forever, has died at the age of 65.

Celebrities, Obituaries, Film, Entertainment, Music

11 points by marban 17 hours ago | 2 comments

Shared DNA in Music (pudding.cool)
This is a project about shared DNA in music.

Music, Genetics, Creative Projects

241 points by ksampath02 1 day ago | 58 comments

A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports (openculture.com)

Music, Art, Experimental Music

176 points by vinhnx 4 days ago | 78 comments

Beautiful and Minimalistic Chrome Extension (lofitab.com)
Transform your new tab into a productive and calming lofi experience with todos, weather, clock, and beautiful backgrounds.

Chrome Extensions, Productivity, Design, Music

20 points by reynnan 4 days ago | 14 comments

Nick Cave's thoughts on a ChatGPT poem (2023) (theredhandfiles.com)
Since its launch in November last year many people, most buzzing with a kind of algorithmic awe, have sent me songs ‘in the style of Nick Cave’ created by ChatGPT. There have been dozens of them. Suffice to say, I do not feel the same enthusiasm around this technology.

Music, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Nick Cave

56 points by hansmayer 5 days ago | 73 comments

A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up (captrice.io)
Practice using a smart metronome that captures metrics and turns them into actionable insights; paired with an effective practice method focusing on speed, endurance, accuracy, and adaptability.

Music, Guitar, Practice, Technology, Learning

452 points by adityaathalye 5 days ago | 136 comments

Madison Square Garden's surveillance banned this fan over his T-shirt design (theverge.com)
A concert on Monday night at New York’s Radio City Music Hall was a special occasion for Frank Miller: his parents’ wedding anniversary. He didn’t end up seeing the show — and before he could even get past security, he was informed that he was in fact banned for life from the venue and all other properties owned by Madison Square Garden (MSG).

Surveillance, Music, New York, Entertainment

219 points by helloworld 5 days ago | 89 comments

The Art of DJing: Avalon Emerson (2019) (it.ra.co)
The art of DJing: Avalon Emerson

Music, DJing, Interviews

92 points by easyThrowaway 5 days ago | 53 comments

That Hit Song You Love Was a Total Fluke (hbr.org)
When Princeton sociology professor Matthew Salganik was a doctoral student at Columbia, he got interested in blockbusters — specifically, he got curious about the role of social influence in determining the success of music, art, and books.

Music, Social Influence, Sociology, Research

16 points by gradus_ad 5 days ago | 4 comments

The Real Book (2021) (99percentinvisible.org)
Since the mid-1970s, almost every jazz musician has owned a copy of the same book. It has a peach-colored cover, a chunky, 1970s-style logo, and a black plastic binding. It’s delightfully homemade-looking—like it was printed by a bunch of teenagers at a Kinkos. And inside is the sheet music for hundreds of common jazz tunes—also known as jazz “standards”—all meticulously notated by hand. It’s called the Real Book.

Music, Jazz, Culture, History

156 points by Tomte 5 days ago | 41 comments

Show HN Pianoboi – displays sheet music as you play your piano (pianoboi.site)

Music, Software, Technology, Creative Projects

109 points by bcowde 5 days ago | 25 comments

Limits of Smart: Molecules and Chaos (dynomight.substack.com)
Take me. Now take someone with the combined talents of Von Neumann, Archimedes, Ramanujan, and Mozart. Now take someone smarter again by the same margin and repeat that a few times.

Intelligence, Science, Philosophy, Math, Music

18 points by crescit_eundo 6 days ago | 6 comments

They Might Be Giants Flood EPK Promo (1990) [video] (youtube.com)

Music, Videos, 1990s

188 points by CaliforniaKarl 7 days ago | 90 comments

Kylie Minogue song about a typeface (abcdinamo.com)
Kylie Minogue announces “I am a typeface” in a 1997 song she made with producer Towa Tei.

Music, Kylie Minogue, Typefaces, 1990s

257 points by fauverism 8 days ago | 82 comments

Emulating the YM2612: Part 1 – Interface (jsgroth.dev)
This is the first post in a series on emulating the main Sega Genesis sound chip, the Yamaha YM2612 FM synthesis chip, also known as the OPN2.

Emulation, Music, Programming, Sega Genesis, Hardware

36 points by zdw 8 days ago | 1 comments

Music and the Decline of Civilization (renovatio.zaytuna.edu)
In almost every description of a declining civilization we find the same tropes: an excess of liberty, a confusion of social norms, and the weakening of authority that soon descends into lawlessness.

Music, Culture, Civilization, Society

21 points by walterbell 9 days ago | 39 comments

Herbie Hancock on playing with Miles Davis, AI, and why the piano makes him cry (bbc.com)
Herbie Hancock is an all-time jazz great, so it is reassuring to hear that he suffers from the same modern day procrastination problems as the rest of us mere mortals.

Music, Jazz, Artificial Intelligence, Interviews

9 points by paulpauper 9 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store) (apple.com)
Introducing Notes - Sight Reading Trainer, the ultimate iOS app for mastering sight reading in music! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced musician, Notes is your is your tool to become the musician you were meant to be. When you are ready to learn your instrument and music rather than just learning a song this app is for you.

iOS Apps, Music, Sight Reading

310 points by rooster117 10 days ago | 131 comments

Play the Virtual Organ from Arp Schnitger (orgelstadt-hamburg.de)

Music, Virtual Reality, History

126 points by ohjeez 10 days ago | 29 comments

Show HN: I built a website for sharing drum patterns (onether.com)
Discover & share drum machine patterns.

Music, Web Development, Sharing, Drum Machines

495 points by wesz 11 days ago | 189 comments

Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US (theguardian.com)
Members of the punk rock band UK Subs have said they were denied entry and detained in the US, according to accounts from the band themselves.

Music, Punk Rock, Travel, United States

32 points by n1b0m 12 days ago | 10 comments

Spotify Tricked Us All (inews.co.uk)
Music lovers embraced it as a 'celestial jukebox' - but a new book reveals how its business model is flattening the musical landscape into ‘vibes’ curated by robots

Music, Streaming Services, Business, Artificial Intelligence

6 points by coloneltcb 13 days ago | 1 comments

I released an open-source album of Game Boy music [link in body] (ycombinator.com)
Hey all,<p>I just released minimal_worlds_ii (https://johnoestmannmusic.com/albums/) - an album of Game Boy music made entirely with Furnace Tracker (https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace). All project files are available through the individual track pages, and all music files are Public Domain / CC0!

Music, Open Source, Game Boy, Programming

16 points by soundworlds 14 days ago | 0 comments

The Business of Phish (2013) (priceonomics.com)
Over the past four years, the rock band Phish has generated over $120 million in ticket sales, handily surpassing more well known artists like Radiohead, The Black Keys, and One Direction.

Music, Business, Data Analysis

84 points by Tomte 14 days ago | 44 comments

Let Your Guests Announce Their Arrival in Style with This Piano Doorbell (hackster.io)
Makestreme designed this piano doorbell that lets visitors announce their arrival by tickling the ivories.

DIY Projects, Music, Gadgets

3 points by meilily 16 days ago | 0 comments

A Farewell from Cosmo Music (cosmomusic.ca)
After 57 years of helping you make music, it is with heartfelt gratitude that we announce the closing of Cosmo Music.

Music, Business, Canada

10 points by LouisLazaris 16 days ago | 2 comments

They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020) (thewhitereview.org)
I was 10 years old when The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails was released in 1994, and I listened to it more than any other record for the next six years, when everything I knew about myself was disintegrating and becoming unknowable.

Music, Biography, 1990s

126 points by herbertl 18 days ago | 74 comments

How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill? (cantgetmuchhigher.com)
When you ask people about the most consequential years in popular music, there might be no year that comes up more often than 1964.

Music, The Beatles, Popular Culture, History

213 points by dwighttk 18 days ago | 216 comments

Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer (anukari.com)
Anukari is the world's first professional MIDI synthesizer and effects processor based on an interactive 3D physics simulation.