music
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I’m Franki Chan, Founder Of IHEARTCOMIX, And This Is How I Work
If you’re trying to combine creative work with “pay the bills” work, look at IHEARTCOMIX, a creative agency that integrates its client work (recent projects include marketing for Black Panther and Mary Poppins Returns) with in-house projects like the music label IHC 1NFINITY, which sets all its music videos in a shared universe. We talked to…
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How Fyre Festival Hoodwinked Investors Out Of $36 Million
A leaked sales deck for 2017’s disastrous Fyre Festival contains the pitch CEO Billy McFarland gave investors ahead of the failed event. The model-festooned sales deck contains misleading information about the festival and has been described as “beyond parody.” Here are the slides.
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Test Your Tone-Deafness With This App
This surprisingly tough web game, from the Music Lab at the Harvard University Department of Psychology, tests how well you can distinguish tones by pitch. Put on your headphones and judge — as fast as you can — whether certain tones are higher or lower than others.
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Rediscover Your Favourite Songs With Lifehacker’s Cover Song Playlist
Back in the day, all the big singers shared the same songbook: A canon of folk tunes, jazz standards and borrowed Broadway numbers. Louie and Ella and Duke and Nina and the boy bands and the girl groups, they were all sharing the same songs up until the middle of the last century, when things…