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Wonky – An exploration of rhythm and grooves that break the rules

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Lost John Coltrane recording, from experimental phase with Eric Dolphy, emerges

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Living sound forever: The genius of Wendy Carlos

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Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014)

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The decline and fall of the hit instrumental song

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The Battle over Techno’s Origins

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Show HN: Database for analyzing US companies, visualize using Apache SuperSet

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Super Mario Bros. theme part of the 2023 Library of Congress registry

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The otherworldly compositions of an Ethiopian nun

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Why did The Beatles get so many bad reviews?

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The KLF: Chaos, magic and the band who burned £1M

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Jazz Is Freedom

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Musicians wage war against evil robots (2012)

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Bach’s Accidental Masterpiece

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Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electronic music pioneer

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Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain

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Moog dancers prove that TV was more adventurous in the 70s

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The death of the key change

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Nadia Boulanger

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How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports

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Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print

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How one of America’s last piano manufacturers stays alive

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1999 open Emacs bugs

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The Architecture of Musical Instruments

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How radical was Rachmaninoff?

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The Creedence Clearwater Revival Revival

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How Did Elevators Lose Their Music?

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A Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire

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Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” synth sounds

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Once in a Lifetime

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The story behind Beethoven's “Ode to Joy”

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Eurovision Song Contest Bingo

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“Blown Away Guy”: Iconic music image

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John Cage Organ Project in Halberstadt

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The Beatle Who Got Away

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Korn Meets KoRN

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The Casio employee behind the “Sleng Teng” riddim that revolutionized reggae

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When Radiohead sampled Paul Lansky (2000)

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Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystified

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A web app that can play musical scales according to mathematical equations

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Discipline by King Crimson

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YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording

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Copy-protection for vinyl in the 1970s (2008)

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Easy Listening Acid Trip: An elevator ride through Sixties psychedelic pop

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Kmart In-Store Music Tapes [audio]

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I built my own analog drum machine (2020)

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Why Russians do not smile (2002)

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The Midnight Pub

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The Aphex Face (2010)

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History of Techno

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A record label bringing Iranian music to the world

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Kunst Der Fuge Collection – Free Classical MIDI Files

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Daft Punk Break Up

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Chick Corea has died

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SOPHIE has died

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Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty

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I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music

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Infinite Bad Guy

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How to play the piano: On Glenn Gould

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Generative Music – Brian Eno (1996)

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Specially made gloves let Brazilian pianist Joao Carlos Martins play again

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What Did Bach Sound Like to Bach?

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John Peel Sessions

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Why we listen to new music

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A Mysterious Song on the Internet (2019)

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Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

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Radiooooo – The Music Time Machine

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The sound of the Hagia Sophia, more than 500 years ago

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The Name of the Rose Background Ambience Generator

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J.S. Bach the Rebel: The subversive practice of a canonical composer

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Classical music works of the 21st century

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Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition

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Leonardo da Vinci's forgotten musical invention

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Knuth: Fantasia Apocalyptica (2017)

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How did classical music in movies and TV become synonymous with villainy?

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Debussy’s Radical Search for Simplicity

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Inside the booming business of background music

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Bach, the Master Recycler

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David Byrne Curates a Playlist of Great Protest Songs

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How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry

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Theft: A History of Music

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How Zildjian, a 390-year-old family business, avoids layoffs (2013)

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Why punk keeps connecting people across space and time

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Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases

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Loudness Penalty: Find out if audio will be turned down by streaming services

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We Should Teach Music History Backwards

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Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt

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Bach at the Burger King

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Rick Toone, Luthier

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The History of Video Synthesizers

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Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”

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Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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A History of Music Notation

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The slow death of the electric guitar

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The woman who could 'draw' music

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How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’

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Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier – BWV 731 [video]

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Brian Eno: Composers as Gardeners

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Retina iMac owners can greatly improve graphics performance of many applications

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Bach's Holy Dread

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The Music of the Future

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Stevie Wonder’s “classic period”

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OK Go’s video, for the song “The One Moment”, took only 4.2 seconds to film

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Don't Give Up on the Guitar, Fender Is Begging You

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Leonard Cohen has died

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What 18th-Century Paris Sounded Like

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The same melodic sequence appears in a surprising number of recent pop songs

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De La Soul’s Legacy Is Trapped in Digital Limbo

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The Montreux Jazz Festival archive is now online

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The Impossible Music of Black MIDI

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Rise of the Synthesizer

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Steinway's 600,000th piano, the Fibonacci

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Why Can't Streaming Services Get Classical Music Right?

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Beautiful stop-motion engine rebuild [video]

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Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbeat Clapping Study

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Fifty years of Moog

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This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps

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What Really Happened in that Double-Blind Violin Sound Test

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Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll?

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Da Vinci's String Organ

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Leonardo Da Vinci's piano heard for the first time after 500 years

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The Impossible Music of Black MIDI

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Vi Hart on Stravinsky's Atonal Compositions [video]

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Congress Quietly Repeals Congressional Insider Trading Ban

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The music classifying nightmare

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Metallica Concerts, 1982-2012 [Infographics]

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How Spotify Works

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Stop motion video shot over 2 years with 288,000 jelly beans

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How to get 4 to 5 stars on the App Store

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Chopin's Small Miracles

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The Boy Who Heard Too Much

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Music painted on wall of a Venetian orphanage will be heard 250 years later

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Auroratone, a psychedelic 1940s film that helped WWII vets overcome PTSD

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I Am Sitting in a Room (1969)

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Is Bach the greatest achiever of all time?

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Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise

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Sounds of Cologne – The WDR Studio for Electronic Music

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Tree.fm: Tune in to Forests Around the World

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A man who collects lost pet posters

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The Rest Is Silliness: Peter Schickele and PDQ Bach remembered

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Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord

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Let Everybody Sing (2016)

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Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list

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Bartók's Monster – Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania (2013)

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Anti-crime humps in medieval Venice

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The Making of Django Reinhardt

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Synth wars: The story of MIDI (2023)

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Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair

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Eden Abhez: The strangest hit songwriter

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Ford Dabney might have been the first jazz star

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Beastie Boys dismantled their gold record plaque

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