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 ...

If we do not take our music listening habits out of the cold, dead hands of an automated algorithm — not to mention whose pockets the dirty hands of major music streaming platforms CEOs are sliding ...

There are quick hacks, there are weekend projects and then there are years long journeys towards completion. [Boris Vitazek]’s grafofon falls into the latter category. His creation can best be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple Music users hoping for more algorithmic discovery options akin to Spotify now have a new personal radio station called Discovery Station. Finding new music can be a challenge, especially on a ...

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 ...

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 ...