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How can the iPad and Technology enhance Music Education? (by Paul Shimmons) Fiddlewax is a harmony looper for musicians that can also be used live. It can also be an effects processor.

Sophie Weiner calls up Georgia Tech, where robots are making music with humans. In this amazing article we see a robot learning how to improvise with a live piano playing through listening to the chord and melody and matching in time.

An interesting article that discusses how more and more people are buying their tickets through mobile services. This is behavior not only seen with younger generations; it's a move all across the board. The hope is that increased easy availability of tickets for sale on mobile devices will increase overall revenue. I guess only time will tell if this holds true. It seems like with the rise of the internet, subscription available performances have seen an increase in single ticket sales but a decrease in subscription based sales.

Is an internet based radio station that is listener supported. Live DJ's do the programming and match the tunes to me similar to one another. But they slide smoothly through many genres in the process. You could start listening and hear "A day in the life" by the Beatles and an hour latter be listening to "Blue on Black" by Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and never be shocked by the transitions of the 15 songs in between.