Can we quantify different features of music? Apparently yes; folks at Spotify have identified and measured songs’ features like danceability, accoustiness, valence, energy, pitchiness, and more. In ...

BuzzAngle, the analytics company that has impacted the music business in recent years with daily and weekly charts and other public and private data, is being relaunched as Alpha Data, with a ...

Musicologists have long studied how musical styles change over time. They can see that new styles emerge from musical traditions, sometimes by combining two or more styles. That brings to mind the ...

A geo-environmental scientist from Japan has composed a string quartet using sonified climate data. The 6-minute-long composition—entitled “String Quartet No. 1 “Polar Energy Budget”—is based on over ...

For artists, music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music will be top of mind in the new year. Aside from having democratized the ways in which people listen to music, CNN recently reported ...

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