1+ week, 6+ day ago   (868+ words) New rules on generative AI in music send a welcome message to artists, writes composer Alexis Weaver: music will remain a thoroughly human endeavour. The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has today (31 August) introduced new guidelines around the use of…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (152+ words) A new, woman-led, interactive, immersive and independent experiential playground has opened in Chippendale, in Sydney’s inner suburbs – at a scale and level of detail that has not been done in Australia. Comprising multisensory installations such as holographic moon rooms to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (148+ words) Step into a world of reflection, imagination and vivid orchestral storytelling as Austrian trumpet virtuoso Selina Ott joins the Sydney University Symphony Orchestra. Awarded the Opus Klassik Prize in 2021 and celebrated as the first woman to win First Prize for…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (246+ words) From symphonic reinvention to new theatrical worlds, Limelight's September issue spotlights artists reshaping tradition while forging their own futures. Limelight is available digitally in two formats. You can explore the magazine in a traditional format with our flipbook version, or…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (388+ words) A recently launched Keep Music Live campaign calls on producers and publicly funded arts organisations to resist treating live music as an optional extra. The growing use of recorded music in ballet productions risks normalising the replacement of live musicians…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (547+ words) Researchers use machine learning to investigate the musical characteristics that make one performer recognisably different from another. Machine-learning models have identified distinctive melodic, harmonic and rhythmic patterns that can distinguish 20 leading jazz pianists with up to 94 percent accuracy. Artificial intelligence…...