Interactive media such as video games rely heavily on music to create an immersive atmosphere, providing deeper emotional impact, and serving as a feedback mechanism for the player’s actions, letting ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. This warped reward system, by which musicians climb the streaming charts, can influence every aspect of a song, from the music ...

You've probably heard music composed by a computer algorithm, though you may not realize it. Artificial intelligence researchers have made huge gains in computational – or algorithmic – creativity ...

Two musician-programmers have teamed up to create an algorithm to generate every possible music melody in order to stop copyright lawsuits. Credit: Getty Images/EyeEm It’s become a regular occurence ...

This week Apple is beginning to roll out the first new personalized playlist under Apple Music’s “For You” section. The playlist, entitled “Chill,” is muxed based on editorial curation and algorithmic ...

One bleary late night this summer, a friend played me The Ghost Trade, the lone 1986 album by Camberwell Now, a short-lived band formed from the ashes of seminal British art-punks This Heat. I ...

Most independent rappers don’t fail because the music is bad. They fail because they don’t understand the first 24 hours.

Stefan Hegerat reached his breaking point with Spotify. Last year, the Toronto drummer and composer made a decision that's becoming more common among independent musicians: he began the process of ...