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Platformed! Music’s New ‘Disempowerment’ Business Model
In his book, Noise, Jacques Attali makes a startling assertion – that music is the vanguard of revolution. Changes, he says, in the relationship between music and the economic and social structures that govern its position and remuneration prefigure fundamental … Continue reading
A Truth-Based Alternative to Spotify’s Danceability Index
When Spotify bought Echonest, several years ago, they added a set of skills and knowledge in how computing can be used to analyse music. This field of work is fundamental to recommendation systems. Conventionally researchers had taken one of two … Continue reading