SXSW Announces Applications are openSXSW have sent out a reminder that applications are open for the Music Festival, SXSW Pitch, SXSW Innovation Awards, and now is your chance to enter a phenomenal session idea for the 2024 Conference via SXSW PanelPicker®. 

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After Nelly’s reported $50m deal with HarbourView, company buys ‘select’ recorded music and publishing assets from Wiz KhalifaHarbourView Equity Partners announces its second deal with a US hip-hop star this week
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Live Nation expands into meditation music app space with ‘Mindful Nation’The growth of audio streaming has led to an overlap between the music business and the practice of mindfulness and meditation which presents an opportunity that a growing number of businesses are seizing. A few examples: Streaming service Deezer has launched Zen by Deezer, a wellbeing app that features music and sounds, guided Yoga sessions, … Continued
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Boss announce ME-90 multi-effects pedal Boss’ new ME-90 multi-effects pedal combines amp modelling and impulse response loading with a range of effects derived from their flagship GT-1000 unit.

9 Reasons Why Every Musician on Instagram should be active on ThreadsEvery musician and creator with almost any sized following on Instagram should sign up and be active on Meta and Instagram’s new Twitter-like social platform Threads. Posts on Threads can. Continue reading
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Tascam launch DR-10L Pro field recorder The DR-10L Pro combines a wired lavalier microphone with a 32-bit floating point field recorder, offering a simple and unobtrusive all-in-one dialogue recording solution.

MOD Audio / AIDA DSP amp plug-ins The latest plug-ins for MOD Audio's amp modelling platform employ AI technology and provide users with a range of advanced tone-shaping possibilities.

Searches for ‘AI jobs’ in 2023 are 4X higher than ‘crypto jobs’ when BTC hit $69KWeb3’s entry into the public perception, coupled with peak BTC value, led to the highest number of searches for “crypto jobs” ever in 2022. Now, “AI jobs” has hit its own peak.

Fiat says its cutest EV will tote accessories like, I kid you not, a ‘little shower’Fiat is slowly trickling out new details on its upcoming Topolino EV, and it turns out the teeny-tiny quadricycle will do some trickling of its own.
Designed for short trips in and around dense European cities, Fiat’s owner Stellantis said this week that the upcoming electric vehicle will start at $10,735 (€ 9,890) in Italy. The automaker also said the 8.3-foot-long quadricycle will ship with a 5.5 kWh battery that packs a 47-mile range and charges up in under four hours. At that length, this vehicle is about half a foot shorter than a 2013 Smart Fortwo. The EV is due to launch in Italy by the end of this year and in the U.K. next year.
The Topolino will work with several appropriately unusual accessories, Stellantis said, including a “little shower” that is “designed for those days spent on the beach along the Italian coast.” Other add-ons include a USB fan, Bluetooth speaker, thermal water bottle and seat covers that double as beach towels.
Unless I’m mistaken, the following promotional photograph appears to show Fiat’s shower in action.
Fiat’s upcoming Topolino EV features a shower. Image Credits: Fiat
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Though the vehicle itself isn’t customizable — it’ll ship in only one hue, interior and wheel design — Stellantis added that the EV will still come in two flavors: a more conventional-looking closed version as well as an open version with ropes for doors.
With a previously announced top speed of around 28 mph, this Citroen Ami–inspired EV will likely never land stateside — at least, not in significant numbers. That is a shame, because Fiat is right to boast about the upcoming quadricycle’s “reduced carbon footprint.” Next to the typical American car, a little Topolino demands far fewer raw materials and thus is less pollutive overall. Its battery capacity, for example, is about 94.5% smaller than the battery you’ll find in an upgraded Model X. Granted, larger EVs are capable of far more, but even in the U.S., most trips by car are quite short. In a recent study, the U.S. Department of Transportation found that 52% of all daily trips in 2021 were under three miles.
To an extent, less is more, yet lots of folks need more juice than a Topolino can ever deliver. Still, just imagine how breezy it’d be running some quick errands in this diminutive, seafoam ride.
Fiat says its cutest EV will tote accessories like, I kid you not, a ‘little shower’ by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

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Keeril Makan named associate dean of MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social SciencesMIT Professor Keeril Makan has been named associate dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), effective July 1. 

Agustín Rayo, the Kenan Sahin Dean of SHASS, says Makan will serve concurrently as associate dean and in his current role as head of the MIT Music and Theater Arts (MTA) Section.

“Throughout my time as dean, I’ve been consistently impressed by Keeril’s leadership and insight as head of MTA. I look forward to working with him at the school level and relying on his advice,” Rayo says.

Makan says he’s looking forward to bringing his collaborative leadership approach to this new role.

“One of the things that excites me about being head of MTA is working on larger projects that advance the mission of the unit, the mission of the Institute, and have a large impact on the community. This involves getting a lot of people together from different parts of MIT, working towards a common goal, skills that I’ve developed through my work as a composer. I look forward to working in this way at the SHASS-wide level, as well as finding common ground between SHASS and the STEM fields,” says Makan.

Makan joined the MIT faculty in 2006, and was named head of MTA in 2018. In addition to being section head, Makan is currently the Michael (1949) and Sonja Koerner Music Composition Professor.

Among the projects Makan has helped lead as section head has been the construction of MIT’s new music building, which is set to open in fall 2024. He’s also worked to develop MTA’s music technology offerings, including the upcoming launch of a new master’s program, joint with the School of Engineering. 

Makan says one of his biggest challenges was leading MTA through the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Performance was particularly challenging in music and theater. But we worked collaboratively to create an educational experience for the students that was artistically meaningful. The experience of Covid taught the world the power of being in a room together, sharing an experience” he says.

Rayo says Makan will lead special projects, and that they’ll work together over the summer to set an agenda for the new role.

After training as a violinist, Makan received degrees in composition and religion from Oberlin College and Conservatory and completed his PhD in composition at the University of California at Berkeley, with additional studies in Helsinki and Paris. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Luciano Berio Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, among other accolades. His music has been recorded by the Kronos Quartet, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the International Contemporary Ensemble, and performed at the Los Angeles Opera, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Tanglewood.

The MLC Issues Quarterly ReportIn June, The MLC's CEO Kris Ahrend, testified in Nashville before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, at a field hearing entitled “Five Years Later — The Music Modernization Act.” In addition to answering questions about The MLC’s work from the Committee members in attendance, Kris provided an update on The MLC’s operations, including the growth to more than 28,000 rightsholder Members and the distribution of more than $1 billion in royalties to date. The MLC is grateful for the Subcommittee’s time and for the participation of all of the other stakeholders who testified, to address the work of The MLC and all those across the industry working to ensure that rightsholders receive the royalties they are due under the blanket mechanical license. To read Kris’s full written statement, click here.

The MLC’s 2022 Annual Report is now available on our website. The report offers a look into our second full year of operations, key performance metrics from 2022, a financial summary and more.

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On May 23, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) issued its initial rate determination for the Phono 3 rate period. This initial determination and the publication of the corresponding regulations that accompany the initial determination represent the next important step in the CRB’s process of finalizing the rates for the Phono 3 rate period.   Once the rate determination is finalized and published in the Federal Register, DSPs will have 6 months to deliver revised data and any royalties they may owe under the final Phono 3 rates — both for the historical unmatched usage previously reported (for 2018, 2019 and 2020) and for usage under the blanket license previously reported (for 2021 and 2022). The MLC has already begun working with DSPs to prepare for their delivery of this revised usage data. For more information, you can read more and check out our timeline here. 

In May, we completed running our final set of historical unmatched data files through our internal matching process. During the Congressional Field Hearing in Nashville, we announced that we had matched nearly 70% of the historical unmatched royalties transferred to us by DSPs. That means that nearly $300 million in historical royalties will be eligible to be distributed to Members provided they have claimed their shares of the works that we’ve matched to those historical royalties. Members can use our Claiming Tool to search for — and claim — any missing shares of their songs that other Members have registered with The MLC, and Members can use our Registration Tools to register any songs that have not yet been registered with us.   Members can also use our Matching Tool to search for uses of their works in the remaining unmatched data we have for those historical royalties. (The one exception is the historical data we received from FanLabel, which contains issues that FanLabel has not been able to rectify.) By providing our Members with full visibility into all of our remaining unmatched sound recording data, we have fully illuminated the "black box" for digital mechanicals for the first time in history and given Members the ability to help us eliminate the black box by proposing matches to their registered works. We’ve already reviewed and approved matches for more than 800,000 previously unmatched groups of recordings that our Members submitted using the Matching Tool. Once we approve a proposed match submitted by a Member, they will be able to receive any previously unmatched historical royalties we received for their song and any unmatched blanket royalties we have received since The MLC launched full operations.

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