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The now achieved promise of streaming services has put the entire universe of recorded music into your pocket. This, as it turns out, is too much for anyone to digest, sort, and consume, creating a problem Silicon Valley has yet to solve with code. So meet the people responsible for steering over a billion streams a week to your ears, inside the playlist factory.
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Woah. It took all of about a week for Pokémon Go (everything you need to know about it here) to reveal the brave new world of augmented reality advertising. Brick and mortar retailers are salivating at the potential of digital / physical mixed reality that just might reverse a decades long trend towards irrelevance for retail storefronts. Just be careful out there (and there, and there).
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Why do certain melodies and chord structures produce certain emotions? Is it innate, something about the mathematical relationship between consonance and dissonance that’s hard wired in our genome? Apparently not, according to new research conducted with members of the Tsimané tribe in the Amazon who showed no preference between consonant and dissonant tones, despite clearly being able to distinguish. The results point to a more complex interplay between Nature and Nurture, and provide another small piece in the quest to understand the integral role of music in the human experience.
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Jamie Foxx takes the stage on
the Honda Civic Tour in Brooklyn.
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See ya next week...
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