Composer of music for media, film and installations. I tweet about music and technology.
Joined September 2009
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14 Nov 2024
Hi everyone, taking a break from X for a bit. I'll be working on a new research project this winter and will most likely return then. Be kind, be safe.
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25 Jun 2024
If you are a musician, music industry professional or a music lover take a moment to read to the motions filed against Suno and Udio. See links in @ednewtonrex ās analysis below
24 Jun 2024
The 3 major record labels are suing AI music companies Suno and Udio. Here are the two lawsuits in full.
- They accuse Suno & Udio of āwillful copyright infringement on an almost unimaginable scaleā
- They provide evidence that both companies trained on their music, including outputs that closely resemble their recordings (ABBA, Michael Jackson, Green Day, James Brown, & many more)
- They outline why this is not fair use
- They say this āwholesale theft ofā¦ copyrighted recordings threatens the entire music ecosystem and the numerous people it employsā
- They include unknown co-defendants who assisted in copying/scraping
- They demand a jury trial
If you do one thing today, read the full complaints.
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Suno: s3.documentcloud.org/documenā¦
Udio: s3.documentcloud.org/documenā¦
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30 May 2024
"How can AI enable the musicians of tomorrow?ā I'm thrilled to dive into this topic with @navreyort @zlbdad and Carlos Arana at the "Educating the Next Generation of AI-Enabled Musicians" panel at next weekās AES Symposium on AI and The Musician aimusicpreneur.com/ai-music-ā¦
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23 May 2024
The rollout of AI summaries instead of search results threatens to undermine any collective sense of shared history, thereby unraveling the threads that bind us, & abandoning truth as a guide.
On both a literal & philosophical level, what happens when we stop searching?
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26 Apr 2024
On World IP Day, a reminder that the internationally agreed Berne Convention forbids copying that āunreasonably prejudice[s] the legitimate interests of the author.ā Fair use, and other copyright exceptions, have to meet this standard.
Copying peopleās work to build a generative AI model that competes with them clearly unreasonably prejudices their interests. It reduces their opportunities and decreases their income. This is already apparent.
Most of the gen AI world may have adopted this approach. But that doesnāt make it legal, and it doesnāt mean we should normalize it.
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19 Mar 2024
AI startups talking about how they will 'democratize' music making (or art in general) is just as cringe as Facebook/Meta's "move fast and break stuff" mantra of their early years. rollingstone.com/music/musicā¦
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19 Mar 2024
If you want to democratize something, develop tools to make it less expensive and easier to learn. Typing text prompts and receiving ready-made audio further mystifies and obscures the beautiful, joy-filled process of creating music.
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28 Feb 2024
The first session of my new lecture and discussion series starts today! Very excited to talk about and learn more about our studentās perspectives on generative AI and Music.
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6 Jan 2024
new turing test just dropped
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4 Dec 2023
After an unreleased performance of the Tomasz Stanko Quintet was found, @AstigmaticRec turned to AudioShake to create stems of the 50-year-old recording. More on our work helping to master this radio broadcast turned vinyl album, āWooden Music IIā: audioshake.ai/post/astigmatiā¦
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Devin Arne retweeted
This blew me away today: a singing cow gate!
Geophony (strong wind) meets antrophony (cow gate), with a sprinkle of biophony (passing jackdaws and a late bumblebee!).
I was taken aback at how musical this sounded as the wind flowed through the nooks & crannies. Just beautiful
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25 Oct 2023
Read this, understand this. Embrace your limitations, your imperfections your humanity. This is it folks, the only way forward.
My "Letter to a A Young Artist" - how to survive in #GenerativeAI era? One possible strategy based on my 50 years in the arts.
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26 Sep 2023
New AI music tool, #SplashPro can generate music based on samples in its library and add vocal performances based on lyrics that you input or generate. I made this clip in about 15 seconds.
pro.splashmusic.com/link/2Ljā¦
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26 Sep 2023
To make a comparison to the history of recorded music, we are in the 78rpm/ wax cylinder stage of generative AI music. It is mind-boggling to think about where this tech will be in 5 years.
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15 Aug 2023
Iām working on content for a Music Entrepreneurship course, this is a sentiment and mindset that is so important for young people to think about.
14 Aug 2023
When deciding on a career path, focus on the life you want outside of work.
Maybe you want a family. Time off to travel the world. A nice house. To be close to your parents. Stability.
What would you need to achieve that? And does the ādream jobā you are pursuing provide that?
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10 Aug 2023
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10 Aug 2023
When people do the whole "classical music is more complex than rap music" shtick, there's two main fallacies:
- That statement is only true if you value certain parameters (harmony, melody) and not others (rhyme, production)
- Complexity is not an inherent measure of quality
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24 Jul 2023
Eventide SplitEQ in Action: Drums, Bass, Guitar and Vocals Plug-in Demo youtu.be/Jo7eGeuclck
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