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September 7, 2026

I think it’s safe to say that a song can now be written (generated?) with software as its first audience. A potential listener may still be someone driving to work or relaxing on the beach…

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August 24, 2026  

Last week, three researchers from the University of Cambridge published a paper in Nature Machine Intelligence, in which they used AI to analyze the musical idiosyncrasies of 20 legendary jazz pianists. Why? I’m still…

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August 3, 2026  

I’ve struck an interesting balance these past few weeks with a couple of clients who have not only hired me to edit, mix, and master songs, corporate bumpers, and voice-overs, but also to teach them…

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July 20, 2026

AI-generated music may be approaching market saturation, and the reason for that is simple: the novelty has worn off. What once looked like a disruptive breakthrough now, in many corners of the industry, looks like…

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June 1, 2026  

There was a time, not necessarily a happier or better-informed one, when music journalism was a thing. The halcyon days, when there was a trusted, blind-bake relationship among musicians and listeners, and the writer was…

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May 11, 2026  

Some fears are irrational, but fear itself is not. In that first inaugural address, FDR was onto something: panic, softened to “fear” in his 1933 speech, was a greater obstacle to recovery from the Great…

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April 6, 2026  


Here are ten (quite) random musical thoughts and queries this week:  

Were Mel Tormé and Bob Wells commenting on ageism regarding the “kids” in their 1946 holiday classic recorded by Nat King Cole?  


Is it…

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March 9, 2026   

Indeed, but you can never leave. Messrs. Henley and Fry were on to something with that sublime turn of phrase in the little song inspired by goings-on inside the once-iconically pink hotel on Sunset Boulevard…

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March 2, 2026  

The compact disc (CD), a 1.2 mm-thick polycarbonate roundel 120 mm in diameter, can hold up to 74 minutes of stereo audio, roughly 650 MB, on a single spiral track. It is read by a…