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 ...

2025 was a year in which most artists struggled to make a living while the top names brought in squillions through legacy ...

Most independent rappers don’t fail because the music is bad. They fail because they don’t understand the first 24 hours.

A future chart-topping song may soon come from an algorithm. Sony Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) in Paris is developing a system of algorithms which can create songs that cater to the user's taste, ...

In the December issue of The Baffler, journalist Liz Pelly wrote a fascinating, widely discussed dissection of how the algorithms employed by major streaming services — particularly Spotify — are ...

EPISODE 3 Music in the Algorithm Age Can an algorithm write a hit song? Hosts Corey S. Powell and Kristen Meinzer discuss how artificial intelligence and other new technologies promise to upend the ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Last week, a press release went out to tech and music reporters claiming that little-known startup Endel had ...

It’s long been known that secret messages can be included in music through techniques such as backmasking, but now a Polish researcher has developed an entirely new approach. By subtly varying the ...

One of the newest additions to the group of artists working with Warner Music Group — taking a spot alongside names like Ed Sheeran, Madonna, Coldplay and Camilla Cabello — is a bundle of code. It’s ...

The idea of using music to send messages has a long history. The German Benedictine monk Johannes Trithemius is widely credited with founding the discipline in the 16th century. And various others ...