▶ Robots, they’re coming for your drum solo!

▶ MPAA Adds New Rating To Warn Audiences Of Films Not Based On Existing Works

▶ Vintage photographs altered by Anja Wülfing

▶ Fascinating reading: Avian Acoustics Research at Massey University, Auckland, NZ

▶ Post horror? anything has got be better than dumb schlock frights… I don’t watch horror any more, whereas existential dread I do still appreciate…. maybe..

▶ “Imagine if Charles Dickens had left a record of some of his technical decisions—why, for example, he so often used a verbless sentence; or if Joseph Mallord William Turner had explained to his contemporaries why he chose a certain vivid pigment….” – the composer who broke the rules

▶ Does music played in a metadata void actually make a sound

▶ With recent news of layoffs etc at Soundcloud, do you have backups/archive of your tracks on Soundcloud? This site can make backup easier (thanks Tom!)