Possibly one of the coolest visualisations of data ever, The Universe Of Miles Davis tool amasses all 2,452 Wikipedia pages that mention the late and great trumpeter to illustrate the jazz pioneer’s ongoing enormous influence on decades of musicians and culture in general. Quoted in...
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Black Summer, quite possible Australia’s youngest electronic music producer (whom we featured in the very first iteration of our This Week We Heard newsletter!), has been snapped up by Uncle Toby’s Oats to illustrate their ‘Energy Feeds Your Passion’ campaign. Originally discovered via Triple J’s...
Read MoreThe audio brand has turned social media users’ tweets into jams. Throughout Super Bowl’s Sunday big game, the company encouraged the public to post social updates via Twitter using the hashtag #LetsHearIt. The words and accompanying emojis were then translated into song and sung to...
Read MoreA new browser instrument called Pixelsynth allows you to create music using a library of pre-selected images or uploads of your own – with interesting results. Created by US coder Olivia Jack, Pixelsynth’s scrolling cursor rolls its way across a monochrome image and plays notes when it...
Read MoreVideo killed the radio star. Streaming killed downloads. Home taping is killing music. Is the cloud about to kill the mastering engineer? LANDR, the instant online mastering service, already looked a bit that way. The drag-and-drop service lets you download a track that is algorithmically...
Read MoreThe food and beverage giant strengthens its ties to the entertainment world and launches an in-house content creation studio called ‘The Creators League’ in the business epicentre of New York. Proclaiming a daring vision of “selling enough unbranded content to cover the costs of creating...
Read MoreA few weeks back Optus announced that select pre-paid customers will be able to stream music on their phones from partners Spotify, Guvera, iHeartRadio, Pandora and Google Play without using up all their precious data. Publicising most recently that the campaign will be bolstered with...
Read MoreAsus’ Zenfone Max claims to last 38 days on a single charge. Partnering with Superheroes (the agency “saving the world from boring advertising”) they decided to pit a low-battery phone against notorious speed rapper Mac Lethal for a series of hidden camera branded content pieces....
Read MoreMcDonalds has turned its placemats into music production stations connected to your smart-phone! Developed in The Netherlands, the placemats use conductive ink, a small battery and a thin circuit board with 26 digital touch-points to make music with a selection of audio loops, synths, effects...
Read MoreCalvin Klein did well out of Coachella this year, having helped curate key events in nearby Palm Springs featuring prime talent: first an all-night warehouse party with plenty of celebrity pop-ins, and then a converted desert property near the festival was overtaken for an "immersive...
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