MUSIC
Awesome live performance from Homay and Oliver at Spitfire here
The piece 'As Before' was developed from an idea that Homay had conceived a while ago, with her performing on the grand piano and Oliver laying down some live loops using the Spitfire sounds combined with a stereo delay.
I came across this documentary 'The Music of Strangers' led by Yo-Yo Ma which is about the beginnings of the SilkRoad Ensemble a few months back and its very much worth a watch for so many reasons, it delves into a world of musical and cultural collaborations....
FREE PLUGIN
For those familiar with PaulStretch, you might have seen this update to a plugin version of the Extreme time stretching software.
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/paulxstretch-by-xenakios
SILENCE
I supported a Kickstarter campaign for a film called 'In Pursuit of Silence' a few years ago and they recently shared a bunch of 'silence' related articles.. One pointed to a new film called Sancturies of Silence which looks really interesting and it must have been a fun one to be part of.
Also this New Yorker article By Amanda Petrusich, on the world generally getting passively louder...