em guide a snapshot into festivals, clubs & networks in electronic music through the independent movement for electronic scenes (times)
Festivals, and especially clubs, are in a tricky situation in recent years, and 2024 is arguably the most challenging year after COVID and since the start of the war against Ukraine. Obvious reasons are inflation and less money in the pocket of festival goers/clubbers, less obvious ones include the lack of the usual generation takeover on the dancefloor due the COVID years, and lastly, there seems to be a transition in genres and trends where festivals and clubs need to adapt to.
em guide audiotag: challanging shazam’s fingerprinting
Peter Bokor of hungarian magazine MMN talked to Alex Radzishevsky, the creator of AudioTag.info for automated track ID detection. The Ukraine-born, Haifa-based Israeli sound engineer explains the inherent challenges of automated track ID detection, explains his approach with AudioTag, and sheds light on Shazam’s operation.