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August 31, 2024

Has the Book Business Learned Anything From the Music Business?

It has been twenty years since David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard published their manifesto The Future Of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution. I wrote about it in my April 2017 post called The best way how not to drown in the “music as water”. After […]

July 31, 2024

What is the Value of Music?

What a question! This must be obvious to everyone! Or – is it? For many people it is obvious. And probably, as it looks like recently, for even more people it is not. Or, should I say, too many people don’t see any value in music […]

June 30, 2024

Are Humans Obsolete?

This is a very broad question, given the rapid growth of the Artificial Intelligence. But as the main theme of this blog is music, this question relates solely to the domain of music. So to expand the question a little bit, it would be – Are […]

April 29, 2024

60 Guitar Heroes Going Home

There are few songs or pieces of music, that have the power and durability to stay with us for the rest of our life from the very first moment we hear them. I have written about my personal music jewels in a post here . One […]

February 29, 2024

The Stupidest “music sound” Usage.

Every year in January a lot of electronic technology professionals and enthusiasts gather in Las Vegas, Nevada for an annual trade show called Consumer Electronics Show or CES. There a visitor can see, what has the electronics industry prepared for the next year, whether those are […]

January 30, 2024

Piano and the Clash of Cultures

This one will be political. We live in strange times, when almost anything could become a contentious political topic. Even such a seemingly innocuous thing as a piano placed in a public space for anyone to play it freely. I had been browsing YouTube the last […]

November 30, 2023

ARC Conference on Music

The end of October 2023 had been very busy for many reasons. One of them was, that the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship organized a three-days inaugural conference in London, England. An event considered by some as a conservative equivalent of the WEF annual gathering in Davos, […]

September 30, 2023

Could Music Prevent a War?

“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.” This quote by Confucius keeps comming back to me. So for this blog post I have decided to […]

August 30, 2023

Losing Trust in Our Voice because of the AI

Watched this video about how “Nobody knows what music is anymore” by Wings of Pegasus. There you can hear and even see a graphical analysis of a human singing voice, that is automatically tuned and corrected by a computer program. The truth is, that I haven’t […]