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“The music busi­ness recently cel­e­brated a mile­stone in the form of its first annual rev­enue growth since 1999, but one region, Africa, was unable to join the party. Dig­i­tal music, respon­si­ble for the improve­ment in the industry’s brighter over­all out­look, has failed to catch on across much of Africa.”

Read more at the New York Times.

“The Amer­i­can min­i­mal­ist has fed bales of hay to his piano but it’s his six-hour-plus Well-Tuned Piano that has changed the way we hear music – quite literally”

Read more about La Monte Young’s music at The Guardian.

“What is a library? Until fairly recently, the answer to that ques­tion was sim­ple: It’s a store­house for books and man­u­scripts. The fact that books are increas­ingly “printed” on some­thing other than paper doesn’t change the fun­da­men­tal pur­pose of libraries. They are our col­lec­tive mem­ory. For­tu­nately for pos­ter­ity, a well-made book isn’t hard to pre­serve. But in 1877, Thomas Edi­son invented a new way to pre­serve the past. He called it the phono­graph, and it took a long time for librar­i­ans to fig­ure out that the echoes of speech and music that Edi­son and his suc­ces­sors etched on discs were as impor­tant a part of our col­lec­tive mem­ory as the words that Johannes Guten­berg and his suc­ces­sors printed on paper.”

For the full story, please see the Wall Street Jour­nal.

“The late composer’s mas­tery of a gigan­tic spec­trum of sound, tex­ture and feel­ing makes his work some of the most spe­cial of the late 20th century”

For the full story, please see The Guardian.

“Piano wires snake around the room like the strands of a spider’s web. They’re struck not by fin­gers but by lit­tle mechan­i­cal devices oper­ated by a com­puter in a cor­ner of the room. They creak and bang with a sense of the apoc­a­lyp­tic, as if giant objects were break­ing up. Is this work — “L-Carrier,” a performance/installation by Eli Kes­zler — music’s brave new world? Or just a new way of play­ing the piano?”

Read the full story at the Wash­ing­ton Post.

“Can music repair dam­aged tis­sue? Is it pos­si­ble to hear it through another person’s ears? If any­one knows, it’s Tod Machover. As he pre­pares to cre­ate an inno­v­a­tive sym­phony for Edin­burgh, Char­lotte Hig­gins meets the music professor”

Read the full story in The Guardian.