. . . to see why no one cares about them.
Flanger has always been my least favorite effect on harp — so much that I haven’t featured one on the channel in over two years. I got my hands on every flanger I could to find what I could possibly like about flangers and how to use out-of-the-box flanging techniques in a practical context. I was really surprised, and found some of my new favorite pedals in the process.
The musicians, composers and performance artists selected as MIDI brand ambassadors represent the beautiful diversity of cultures and people from all over the world and music from different genres and generations brought together by music and MIDI ArtScience.
Engineers from Apple, Google, and Microsoft will present the current state of MIDI 2.0 implementations in their operating systems. We’ll describe the API changes required for MIDI 2.0 for each platform as well as discuss the philosophy and reasoning behind various design decisions. We’ll also present the status of transports, such as USB and Ethernet. If you’re a developer who is interested in the practical implementations of MIDI 2.0, this is the session for you.
The ICA Gender Equality Committee marks the 2023 International Women’s Day by calling for the full participation of women and girls in innovation and technology.
Under the theme DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality, the 2023 International Women’s Day focuses on the importance of a digital transformation that empowers women and girls by including them as agents of change and development.
Anchored in its values and principles, the cooperative movement provides an environment to more effectively bridge the digital gender divide and advance towards sustainable, inclusive, and empowered communities. Discover stories of cooperatives helping to bridge the gender digital divide here.
In their book Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets, Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow argue that the current trend of corporate concentration results in exploitation and capture of value that belongs to others. This is referred to as “chokepoint capitalism”.
The book examines various industries, including book publishing and news, live music, and music streaming, to show how corporations use anti-competitive methods to lock in users and suppliers, making markets hostile to new entrants and forcing workers to accept low prices.
In the second half of the book, Giblin and Doctorow propose solutions to break through these chokepoints, such as transparency rights, collective action, and minimum wages for creative work. The book is a call to all workers to unite and take back the power and profit that has been taken from them.
