Hacker News with Generative AI: Music

Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg (dylanbeattie.net)
One of my side projects at the moment is running a monthly karaoke night at my local brewery tap, the very awesome Ignition Brewery in Sydenham – but it’s karaoke with a twist.

Music, Software, Karaoke, Open Source

15 points by davekiss 11 hours ago | 1 comments

The Family Bass - Music with an NES (linusakesson.net)
I connected a Family BASIC keyboard to an NES via a bespoke adapter in order to play its unique triangle waveform live.

Music, Retro Gaming, Hardware, DIY

138 points by rcarmo 17 hours ago | 10 comments

Schoenberg scores destroyed in Los Angeles fires (nytimes.com)
An estimated 100,000 scores and parts by the groundbreaking 20th-century composer Arnold Schoenberg were destroyed last week when the wildfires in Southern California burned down the music publishing company founded by his heirs.

Music, Fires, California, Loss, History

7 points by carlspeaking 4 days ago | 1 comments

CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don't Like Making Music (404media.co)
Mikey Shulman, the CEO and founder of the AI music generator company Suno AI, thinks people don’t enjoy making music.

AI, Music, Technology, Business

48 points by detaro 4 days ago | 99 comments

Linus Torvalds offers to build free guitar effects pedal (theregister.com)
Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has offered to hand-build a guitar effects pedal for one lucky kernel contributor.

Linux, Open Source, Music, Hardware, Community

12 points by thunderbong 5 days ago | 1 comments

The Story of Irish Hip Hop (redbull.com)

Music, Ireland, Hip Hop

13 points by dylancollins 5 days ago | 0 comments

Free music archive (freemusicarchive.org)
Free access to original music & creators

Music, Audio, Creative Commons

178 points by empressplay 5 days ago | 26 comments

De-smarting the Marshall Uxbridge (sig7.se)
This is the story of a commercially unavailable stereo pair of the bi-amped Marshall Uxbridge, with custom-built replacement electronics: active filters feeding two linear power amps. Listening to this high-fidelity set has brought me immense enjoyment. Play a great album on these near-fields, and the result is close to pure magic! Over and above the accurate reproduction of a wide audio range, the precision and depth of its stereo imaging is stunning.

Audio Engineering, Music, DIY, Hi-Fi

292 points by fanf2 6 days ago | 93 comments

Glicol: Next-generation computer music language (glicol.org)

Music, Programming Languages, Software, Open Source

142 points by Bluestein 7 days ago | 18 comments

I Sang Along with Peter Yarrow in 1972 (wsj.com)
On hearing of the death of Peter Yarrow, who co-wrote the iconic tune “Puff the Magic Dragon,” I thought back to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in 1972.

Music, Peter Yarrow, Nostalgia, Folk Music

6 points by bookofjoe 7 days ago | 4 comments

Lego Retro Radio #10334 – play your own music using a Raspberry Pi (sean.co.uk)
Discover how to play your own music on the Lego Retro Radio (10334) set by putting a Raspberry Pi computer inside. My project description includes Python code you can use to play your own music.

Lego, Raspberry Pi, Retro Computing, DIY Projects, Music

7 points by akirk 7 days ago | 0 comments

Visualizing Joyce's Ulysses: "Sirens" as a Graphic Score (emilyfuhrman.co)
In reference to schemas for Ulysses, Joyce describes the compositional technique behind the “Sirens” episode as a “fugue with all musical notations,”[1] and as including the “eight regular parts of a fuga per canonem.”[2] While the structure of the episode remains unresolved, this project is an attempt to track and classify all of the sounds that comprise it, and depict them as a graphic score.

Literature, Music, Visualizations

9 points by thcipriani 8 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: I've been posting a sound I made everyday day for the last year (listenfaster.com)
A minute of sound a day.

Creative Projects, Audio, Sound Design, Music

9 points by listenfaster 10 days ago | 2 comments

Synthesizing Music from JSON (phoboslab.org)
pl_synth is a tiny music synthesizer for C & JS and an editor (“tracker”) to create instruments and arrangements.

Music, Programming, Software, JSON

128 points by bangonkeyboard 11 days ago | 18 comments

Raygun musical cancelled after viral Olympian's legal threat (bbc.com)
Australian breaker Rachael Gunn's legal team has stopped a musical parody about her journey to the Paris Olympics from taking to the stage.

Music, Entertainment, Law, Sports, Australia

7 points by TMWNN 12 days ago | 1 comments

Who killed the rave? (ft.com)
Late-night dancing falls into global decline

Music, Culture, Trends, Nightlife

336 points by this_weekend 12 days ago | 814 comments

OCRing Music from YouTube with Common Lisp (nickfa.ro)
There's a tune on YouTube I always really liked called "Supersquatting." It was written by Dubmood and Zabutom, two really masterful chiptune composers, but this track always stood out to me as sounding really full and "fat."

Programming, Music, YouTube, Common Lisp

63 points by superdisk 13 days ago | 18 comments

Remote code execution via MIDI messages (psi3.ru)
I gained remote code execution via MIDI messages to trick my synth into playing Bad Apple on its LCD. This blog post is about my journey with this reverse engineering project.

Reverse Engineering, Security, Music, Programming, Hardware

471 points by portasynthinca3 13 days ago | 75 comments

Bob Dylan has some Dylanesque thoughts on the "sorcery" of technology (arstechnica.com)
With the holiday release of the biopic A Complete Unknown, Bob Dylan is once again in the national spotlight.

Music, Technology, Biography, Bob Dylan

6 points by pseudolus 13 days ago | 0 comments

Van Halen and Brown M&Ms (oddathenaeum.com)
One of the most famous stories of Van Halen is that, backstage at each concert, they required M&Ms to be provided but there were to be no brown M&Ms.

Music, Rock Bands, Van Halen, Stories, Contracts

4 points by speckx 13 days ago | 2 comments

Bob Dylan has some Dylanesque thoughts on the "sorcery" of technology (arstechnica.com)
With the holiday release of the biopic A Complete Unknown, Bob Dylan is once again in the national spotlight.

Music, Technology, Biography

6 points by Tomte 14 days ago | 0 comments

Two Turntables and a Microphone (2006) (goodfuzzysounds.com)
The shorter, funnier version of my dissertation

Music, Humor, Academia

63 points by mellosouls 14 days ago | 44 comments

Anthropic gives court authority to intervene if chatbot spits out song lyrics (arstechnica.com)
On Thursday, music publishers got a small win in a copyright fight alleging that Anthropic's Claude chatbot regurgitates song lyrics without paying licensing fees to rights holders.

Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Music, Legal

4 points by pseudolus 14 days ago | 1 comments

Neil Young pulls out of Glastonbury: festival 'under corporate control' of BBC (theguardian.com)
Neil Young has announced that he will not perform at Glastonbury this year, saying he believes the BBC’s involvement in the festival means it is “now under corporate control”.

Music, Festivals, BBC, Corporate Control, Neil Young

9 points by bookofjoe 15 days ago | 0 comments

Pink Floyd's Young Lust telephone signalling explained (telephoneworld.org)
Pink Floyd’s Young Lust has been a staple of rock radio for over 40 years. But many people are mystified about the section at the end when a “Mr. Floyd” in the United States attempts to make a collect call to “Mrs. Floyd” in England.

Music, History, Telecommunications

10 points by fanf2 16 days ago | 2 comments

Twinge of Saudade: Biographies of Abba (lrb.co.uk)
In 1977, Abba were waiting at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm when they noticed a dishevelled young man charging towards them.

Music, Biography, Culture

19 points by avidly 16 days ago | 23 comments

Stephen King's rock radio station won't go silent after all (apnews.com)
Horror author Stephen King’s rock ‘n’ roll radio station is going to continue rocking around the clock and into the new year.

Stephen King, Music, Radio

4 points by cf100clunk 16 days ago | 1 comments

Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts (wbur.org)
From symphonies to rock music, marching bands and advertising jingles — we hear Zildjian cymbals everywhere. Drummers across the globe know that name because it’s emblazoned on every gleaming disc. What’s less known is the Zildjian family has been making their famous cymbals — with a secret process — for more than 400 years.

Music, History, Business, Massachusetts

527 points by arbesman 17 days ago | 233 comments

Mufasa's 'Bye Bye' shows how Disney villain songs went wrong (polygon.com)
Every day, Disney strays further from the wishing star’s light. And there’s one big reason for that: a staggering lack of animated villains. The studio has only produced a handful of movies with actual villains over the last 15 years, and as Disney fans frequently note, that means we’ve lost a glorious entertainment staple in the Disney villain song.

Disney, Animation, Music, Criticism

31 points by hyperific 18 days ago | 30 comments

From Squid Game to Blackpink, how South Korea became a culture powerhouse (bbc.com)
South Korean pop bands like Blackpink are a big hit globally - and among the country's best-known cultural exports

South Korea, Culture, Music, Entertainment, Global Culture

7 points by TMWNN 20 days ago | 0 comments