#Music of the day: Bab L' Bluz - Ila Mata
tag > Music
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Scientists Say You Can Cancel the Noise but Keep Your Window Open
Researchers in Singapore developed a system that’s sort of like noise-canceling headphones for your whole apartment. Their results were published on Thursday in Scientific Reports. The prototype is not yet the most practical device in real world conditions, but it points the way toward the development of technologies that may help ease the strain of noisy city living.
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Microsoft’s AI generates voices that sing in Chinese and English
Researchers at Zhejiang University and Microsoft claim they’ve developed an AI system — DeepSinger — that can generate singing voices in multiple languages by training on data from music websites. In a prepint paper they describe the novel approach, which leverages a specially-designed component to capture the timbre of singers from noisy singing data.
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King Sunny Ade Documentary
King Sunny Adé And His African Beats - Synchro Feelings - Ilako
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Bass Worship: The Story of DUB and Sound System Culture (2020 Documentary)
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#Music of the Night: Bill Evans Sunday at the Village Vanguard
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Controversial study shows rats prefer jazz to classical music, when on drugs
Rats prefer the sound of silence to Beethoven and Miles Davis – except when they are on drugs. Then, they prefer the jazz. These are the results of a controversial 2011 study by Albany Medical College, in which scientists exposed 36 rats to ‘Für Elise’ by Beethoven and ‘Four’, a brassy jazz standard by Miles Davis. The rats overwhelmingly preferred Beethoven to Davis, but they liked silence best of all. In the second part of the experiment, the rats were given cocaine and played Miles Davis over a period of a few days. After that, the rodents preferred the jazz even after the drug was out of their system. The research, according to scientists, showed rats can be conditioned to like any music associated with their drug experience.
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Queen Elizabeth II reads "Wannabe" by Spice Girls (Speech Synthesis)
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#Music of the day: Monk's dream take 8
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The most mind-blowing concept in music (Harmonic Series) - by Andrew Huang
Just Intonation vs Equal Temperament
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Vocal Synthesis Video of "Jay Z" singing Christian Rap Song (Genesis 1:1 Lyrics)
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ByteSing: A Chinese Singing Voice Synthesis System Using Duration Allocated Encoder-Decoder Acoustic Models and WaveRNN Vocoders
pdf: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.11012.pdf abs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11012 audio samples: https://bytesings.github.io/paper1.html
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OpenAI’s Jukebox Opens the Pandora’s Box of AI-Generated Music (waxy) - OpenAI’s Jukebox AI produces music in any style from scratch — complete with lyrics (venturebeat)
Today, research laboratory OpenAI announced Jukebox, a sophisticated neural network trained on 1.2 million songs with lyrics and metadata, capable of generated original music in the style of various artists and genres, complete with rudimentary singing and vocal mannerisms.
"In this example, the Jukebox AI is fed the lyrics from Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” and told to generate an entirely new song in the style of Kanye West.":
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RIP Bill Withers. Ain't No Sunshine when he's gone.
William Harrison Withers Jr. (1938 – 2020) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He recorded several major hits, including "Ain't No Sunshine" (1971), "Grandma's Hands" (1971), "Use Me" (1972), "Lean on Me" (1972), "Lovely Day" (1977), and "Just the Two of Us" (1980). Withers won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for four more. Withers died in LA on March 30, 2020, from heart complications.
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Music of the day: Three Blind Dub - by Lee "Scratch" Perry
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Generating music in the waveform domain - A comprehensive overview of the field
In November last year, I co-presented a tutorial on waveform-based music processing with deep learning with Jordi Pons and Jongpil Lee at ISMIR 2019. Jongpil and Jordi talked about music classification and source separation respectively, and I presented the last part of the tutorial, on music generation in the waveform domain.
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Saddy Waddy - The Private Sector
