elsemusic

else music includes every music project Leigh Harrison is involved in. These include

- sideSister, a duo with Leigh's daughter Aelyth

- May Joy, a virtual collaboration with the virtual voice of Solaria

- Leigh's solo music

elsemusic news: https://else.co.nz/music
sideSister artist page: https://sidesister.bandcamp.com
May Joy artist page: https://mayjoy.bandcamp.com
Leigh's artist page: https://leighharrison.bandcamp.com

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2026-07-24 03:45:20 GMT

Making it easier for blind musicians to play guitar.
https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-guitars/world-first-accessible-guitar-tactile-markers
'“You realize this is the first accessible guitar ever made in the world? This is amazing. I can feel where I'm at on the fretboard without having to look for the harmonics.”
And if the Sensory Navigation Neck wasn’t enough, NVision Guitars ... has also equipped it with volume and tone knobs featuring different textures to make it even more accessible.'

2026-07-22 01:15:29 GMT

I'm trying to bring a couple of new songs up to scratch for live performance. I refuse to use lyric sheets, so learning the words is a big part of the task.
This morning I awoke at 3:30am with one of the songs going around and around in my head. It was still on repeat when I woke again at 7:00am. And when I practiced the song later this morning ... I had almost all the words when I needed them!
I would like to thank my subconscious for pitching in and helping me learn these lyrics.

2026-07-09 19:35:44 GMT

A study of 0-12 month responses to music.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/107088
'... much like the auditory encoding of music, the propensity to move in response to music emerges early ... Additionally, our study points to a previously unknown association between high-pitch music and auditory-motor coupling ... Together, these findings provide initial insights into how the developing brain gradually transforms music into spontaneous movements of increasing complexity.'

2026-05-12 20:22:16 GMT

With the arrival of https://www.subvert.fm the list of artist-driven music platforms has become even longer. Managing a presence across all these platforms is, if not a full time job, at least a full-time distraction from actually creating music.
Perhaps what we need is to agree on an API that makes artist music data available across all these platforms and on personal sites?
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2026-01-13 18:47:22 GMT

I'm not sure this is new, but Bandcamp has officially banned music created "wholly or in substantial part" with artificial intelligence.
https://old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1qbw8ba/ai_generated_music_on_bandcamp/
'If you encounter music or audio that appears to be made entirely or with heavy reliance on generative AI, please use our reporting tools to flag the content for review by our team. We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI generated.'

2025-08-27 19:49:46 GMT

Tama Lundon, keyboard player and co-creator of numerous local hit songs, has died.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/herbs-keyboard-player-tama-lundon-has-died
'Herbs collaborated with some big local names including Tim Finn (‘Parihaka’), Annie Crummer (‘See What Love Can Do’) and most successfully with Dave Dobbyn on the hit single ‘Slice of Heaven’, off the movie soundtrack Footrot Flats. It shot to no.1 in October 1986 and stayed there for eight weeks, AudioCulture reported.'

2025-06-21 20:26:56 GMT

Cory Doctorow on how the movie made blues music and blues artists popular once again. A book review.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/21/1060-west-addison#the-new-oldsmobiles-are-in-early-this-year
" it's a rich and engrossing tale of an extraordinary creative collaboration that found an unlikely foothold at just the right time and place. It's a sensitive, funny, and revealing account of Belushi, Aykroyd, and the comedians, impresarios and friends in their orbit ... you will find something surprising and delightful in these pages."

2025-03-27 19:43:00 GMT

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Amen to the latter. I was music director for a local choir of older women, none of whom had formal musical training, but all of whom had been in the choir long enough to develop a musical vocabulary we could work within. I don't find that anywhere else anymore.

2025-03-25 18:53:37 GMT

How do you organise music for organic discovery?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-03-orbit-music-discovery-organise-analysis/
"We reduced our 30+ descriptors to just eight ‘human’ ones: aggressive, danceable, electronic, happy, instrumental, party, relaxed, sad. Each track being rated from -1 (not at all) to 1 (very) on each of those. We tried various combinations until we could see some separation between opposed genres (e.g. classical vs dance) but see similarity between others (e.g.funk and hip-hop) ..."

2025-03-23 03:41:25 GMT

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"Upright Blues". Thirteen tracks by @npub1qd4…u4cn
https://muz4now.bandcamp.com/album/upright-blues
"Here's the best way to listen to this album: muz4now.com/2021/upright-blues-improvising-on-practice-pianos/
Imagine wandering through the practice rooms at a large music school and playing each of the upright pianos that fill those spaces. On each one, I'll create a brief improvisation. Let's see what happens."

2025-03-14 19:38:45 GMT

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Great work!
https://faircamp.meljoann.com/status/

2025-02-26 03:08:24 GMT

Throughout their songwriting careers, the Gershwins rarely discussed their younger brother, Nathan, who played gutbucket.
https://www.thefarside.com/2025/02/25/0
https://cdn.masto.host/musiciansocial/media_attachments/files/114/067/973/580/213/551/original/39fd73ac55d9b98f.png

2025-01-28 19:02:13 GMT

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"Protection" by @npub1qd4…u4cn
https://mirlo.space/stan-stewart-muz4now/release/protection
"We live in a hell of a time. There are so many who are vulnerable to the crazy political antics. May the good folk among us protect them when we are able. Here's the music video on PeerTube: https://v.basspistol.org/w/gDbHv48P7dZUQA3JN8BSzP"

2024-12-21 03:17:02 GMT

Drawn by the pulsating sound of a rock thumping on a dead armadillo, two australopithecines stood at the forest edge. Instantly, Thag’s agent knew they had a crossover hit.
https://www.thefarside.com/2024/12/20/2
https://cdn.masto.host/musiciansocial/media_attachments/files/113/688/633/922/747/725/original/91d08d546cb9c9b2.png

2024-11-27 20:21:17 GMT

On starting an ethical independent music label.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/27/i-set-up-my-own-indie-label-from-brexits-brutality-to-the-joy-of-diy-music-heres-what-i-learned
A good read, although it doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know.

2024-11-15 12:50:51 GMT

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Stan Stewart's "Dream State: Awakening".
https://muz4now.bandcamp.com/album/dreamstate-awakening

2024-10-29 19:27:37 GMT

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Grief Suite.
https://muz4now.bandcamp.com/album/grief-suite

2024-10-19 19:46:34 GMT

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Nice!
https://muz4now.bandcamp.com/album/healing-melodies

2024-10-14 19:48:46 GMT

Sound Lab is inspired by a classic analogue synthesiser, the WP-20, which was designed in around 1980 by Ray Wilson and Ron Romeo, and marketed by their company Waveform Processing. You can download all the information you need to build one yourself.
http://www.technoblogy.com/show?4MGW

2024-10-06 00:38:11 GMT

Making music with all the stops pulled out can be =such= a joyful experience.
https://cdn.masto.host/musiciansocial/media_attachments/files/113/257/669/335/041/341/original/9ace258e5eaea065.mp4