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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · 4d

“Bone Flute to Autotune: 40,000 Years of Music Technology” is becoming a book! I hope it enables many more people to teach, learn & think critically about the long history of music technology. If you or someone you know would have occasion to test drive a chapter, please get in touch!

Table of contents for “Bone Flute to Autotune: 40,000 Years of Music Technology”

Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · 5d

Pop Conference 2026 is accepting submissions through Oct 22 www.popconference.org

PopCon | 2026

PopCon is the premier music writing and popular music studies conference.

www.popconference.org

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks!

Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · 8d

Goodbye AOL dialup. May your sounds live on www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-...

The sound of the dialup, pictured

If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember how it sounded. But what do these sounds mean?

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · 13d

Boston area folks: come hear the Wiggly Tendrils at Brookline Porchfest this Saturday, we’re one of 10 groups to watch for! A quirky “cross between a farmer’s market string band, and Star Wars cantina band” brookline.news/going-to-por...

Going to Porchfest this weekend? Here are 10 groups to watch for - Brookline.News

Brookline Porchfest happens Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., so get ready to roam the streets and soak up all kinds of music. The lineup features more than 100 bands whose self-described genres range ...

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · 14d

Great essay!

Dan Cohen @dancohen.org · 29d

My essay on the tense relationship between authors and AI, as embodied in a major lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is now in the Chronicle of Higher Education: www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Opinion | What a New Landmark AI Settlement Will Mean for Authors

Creators should demand credit, not just compensation.

www.chronicle.com

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · 19d

We are in proofs! The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments book coming in 2026 @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · 20d

Wow

Insula Dulcamara @insuladulcamara.bsky.social · 20d

Pour la collection de pianos défoncés de @dcdb.bsky.social

Œuvre de Brian Jungen

Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Aug 8

This is interesting. I googled “I idolized Billie and her songs” (in quotation marks) b/c I wanted to find places where this actual Ella Fitzgerald quote about Billie Holiday has been discussed. I got this. Organizing the world’s information doesn’t mean what it used to.

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Aug 2

I enjoyed this article, can’t wait to try blank drecking pitchfork.com/thepitch/how...

How to Dig for Music Without Spotify

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week’s column...

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Jun 28

Music and Machines CFP reminder, deadline soon! #musicology #musictechnology

Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · May 19

CFP: Music and Machines - come talk about how new technologies and computational thinking have and are reshaping musical creation, performance and listening! Conference at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in December, proposals due June 30 www.journal.chigiana.org/call-chigian...

CALL CHIGIANA CONFERENCE 2025 - Chigiana Journal

CHIGIANA CONFERENCE 2025 Music and Machines CALL ENG CALL ITA CALL FOR PAPERS Siena – Accademia Musicale Chigiana4-6 December 2025 The international conference Music and Machines explores how music, c...

www.journal.chigiana.org

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Jun 28

Also, “It should be noted that, when considering market dilution, the proper comparison isn’t to a world with no LLMs, but to a world where LLMs weren’t trained on copyrighted books.”

Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Jun 28

“Indeed, it seems likely that market dilution will often cause plaintiffs to decisively win the fourth factor - and thus win the fair use question overall - in cases like this.”

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Jun 28

Meta may have won their generative AI case but the ruling is really worth a read. “Courts can’t stick their heads in the sand to an obvious way that new technology might severely harm the incentive to create, just because the issue has not come up before…. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Jun 17

Philip K. Dick’s “The Preserving Machine” is now at the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments. Such a weird and fascinating story of a machine for preserving musical scores by turning them into animals (spoiler alert: does not work as envisioned) imaginaryinstruments.org/the-preservi...

The Preserving Machine :: Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments

A curated archive of imaginary musical instruments and speculative sound devices—exploring music, technology, and invention throughout history.

imaginaryinstruments.org

Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Jun 5

Coming soon! I have an essay in this on Daphne Oram’s visions for an art-science research center www.pennpress.org/978151282803...

Sonic Circulations – Penn Press

The role music, sound, and voice played in modern knowledge production in the early twentieth centuryDerived from the Latin words circum (round) and ire (to ...

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · May 19

CFP: Music and Machines - come talk about how new technologies and computational thinking have and are reshaping musical creation, performance and listening! Conference at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in December, proposals due June 30 www.journal.chigiana.org/call-chigian...

CALL CHIGIANA CONFERENCE 2025 - Chigiana Journal

CHIGIANA CONFERENCE 2025 Music and Machines CALL ENG CALL ITA CALL FOR PAPERS Siena – Accademia Musicale Chigiana4-6 December 2025 The international conference Music and Machines explores how music, c...

www.journal.chigiana.org

Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · May 2

New to the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments, Jonathan Ulman’s marvelous snare drums reimagined. And coming soon: The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments, the book! By yours truly and Thomas Patteson, from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social in 2026 imaginaryinstruments.org/snare-drums-...

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Apr 30

Learned about Tipu’s tiger-organ and Tania James’s book Loot from Anna Steppler’s excellent paper at a global keyboards workshop last week. In James’s words, this musical invention “extends the imagination” imaginaryinstruments.org/tipus-tiger/

Tipu’s Tiger :: Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Apr 1

The comic is a wellspring of invention. Happy April 1st from the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments - enjoy this classic! imaginaryinstruments.org/polyphonic-t...

Polyphonic Theremin :: Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Mar 28

New at the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments - Android Orpheus from a story by Jennifer Marie Brissett imaginaryinstruments.org/android-orph...

Android Orpheus :: Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments

imaginaryinstruments.org

Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Mar 4

And 19-note-scale instruments from an imaginary country imaginaryinstruments.org/pluiging-and...

Pluiging and Streemo :: Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Mar 4

New to the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments! Personal music device and hand-cranked instrument from the film Prospect (2018) imaginaryinstruments.org/personal-mus...

Personal Music Device and Instrument :: Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments

imaginaryinstruments.org

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Feb 25

Oh how lovely - hope it’s serving you well!

Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · Dec 9

Looking forward to more of this

Holly Herndon @hollyherndon.bsky.social · Dec 6

Join the private beta to help test Public Diffusion

PD is a foundation image model trained on 30m highly aesthetic images from the public domain

We will show it is possible to have excellent AI models for art that do not require training on copyrighted material

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Public Diffusion Private Beta | Source.Plus

Search, curate, and enrich media collections for AI training using the Source.Plus marketplace. Safe, consenting, high-quality training data. Public domain datasets for model fine-tuning.

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