Much of this year’s ARS Electronica Festival will take place in an online capacity due to COVID-19. Enrique Tomás, one of the festival’s curators sought to create an experience that gave its users the same feeling as exploring a real museum. He came up with Sound Campus, a virtual sound art museum designed for multiple users to explore

The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards aired Sunday night and despite the pandemic, an (outdoor) show still went on with some of the biggest names in music. Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga led in nominations going into the event. Gaga took the stage multiple times, winning the first award of the broadcast for best collaboration for her hit single

We sat down with several leading composers, producers, and sound designers, working across advertising, film and game soundtracks and software instrument development. The aim? To learn about the main challenges of the last few months as well as the best solutions; from remote recording sessions and team logistics, to sourcing clients and optimising home studios.

Is the Supreme Court ready to make music history? One petitioner is giving nine justices of the high court such an opportunity while hardly being subtle about it. Here are the opening notes from a new cert petition: "It is fitting, perhaps, that the future of music copyright law be decided by a case about

With a lot of reverb plugins, your starting point might be a preset indicating what kind of space it might be designed to recreate, but Sonible’s smart: reverb takes a rather different approach. This AI-powered processor promises to ‘listen’ to your sound and then create a custom-tailored reverb for it. READ MORE FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCE

After four months of silence for live music events, restrictions around the world are gradually being lifted and small concerts are starting to happen. However, with the worry of secondary spikes in Coronavirus and local lockdowns happening across the globe, the future of the touring band is still uncertain. READ MORE FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCE

While the NHL boasts a thrilling live experience, it has faced a continual dilemma with its television product: Hockey isn’t designed for the small screen. Advancements in technology, such as high definition, have helped, but issues persist. The puck is small and can be tough to follow. Substitutions are fluid and hard to track. Without

Even films about impending apocalypses and world crises cannot get us through the very real world crisis we're living through, at least not this summer. Studios are holding movies that would've offered viewers an air-conditioned reprieve, all in the hopes that coronavirus cases will slow and theaters can later reopen. READ MORE FROM THE ORIGINAL

U.K.’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport announced Friday that indoor concerts can resume in the country beginning August 1st as long as audiences adhere to social distancing protocols. READ MORE FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCE HERE

Twitter has said that about 130 people were targeted in a cyberattack that took control of high-profile accounts to promote a bitcoin scam. The hackers received $121,000 from over 400 payments to three separate bitcoin addresses, according to blockchain analysis firm Elliptic. Roughly half of those payments were made from U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchanges, Elliptic added.