The hit-making duo turned tech moguls also have thoughts about why corporate America isn’t collaborative enough.
How Big Tech Co-opted DIY – and how to Fight Back | The Quietus
As technology has developed in the last twenty years, it has brought with it a sense of enablement. Over time, access to nearly everything has become simpler, and as such, the message from Silicon Valley and its offshoots was that you can do it all. I have worked in the music industry since the late […]
How AI Will Fail Like The Music Industry
Inside the UMG-backed patent portfolio targeting AI music derivatives: A technical blueprint for the walled garden model? - Music Business Worldwide
An entity linked to UMG has been building a patent portfolio around AI-music infrastructure…
The Music Industry Crosses an AI Tipping Point
AI music remains a touchy subject for many musicians. Suno CEO Mikey Shulman says he's not worried: “People are starting to be a little more comfortable being public and upfront” about creating with AI.
AI has already ruined music
Inside the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Era of AI in Music
From juicing demos to cloning vocals, AI music tools are creeping into the workflows of top producers, songwriters and artists. It’s mostly happening behind closed doors — for now
We Need To Stop Calling Entertainers ‘Artists’
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Former Yamantaka // Sonic Titan Guitarist Details Demoralizing Effort To Find An Audience
The curtain between music fans and the music industry is falling. At SXSW last month, Billboard hosted a podcast Q&A with the founders Chaotic Good Projects, a marketing agency that utilizes digital astroturfing to help artists go viral. A few weeks later, singer-songwriter Eliza McLamb drew attention to the company in a Substack post. Wired followed…
'The ability to say no': Artists demand consent over AI use of their music
As labels strike deals with AI start-ups, advocacy groups warn that the artists whose voices and work make those deals valuable are being shut out.
Nature is Laughing at the AI Build Out -
I was catching up on Acquired episodes this week and listened to the spectacular “Google: The AI Company” episode that Ben and David put together. What the two of them have created with their podcast fascinates me in the inevitability of its success. I think Acquired proves that if you are smart and work your […]
How Creatives and Devs Can All Finally Escape the Control of the Silicon Valley of Evil and Make a Trillion Dollars, Audio Style
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Spotify says its AI remix tool is for superfans, but I’m not convinced
What superfan wants this?
Artist Corporations: A groundbreaking structure for creative people
Creative people deserve the same economic advantages as everyone else. So we’re going to build it together.
The grueling fight over who profits from AI music
AI can generate songs in seconds. But behind every AI track is a complicated question: Who should get paid? And, how? The fights have started.
Jeff Mills Drifts Into the Cosmos
AI is the latest of a long succession of tools trying to make things easier for us, and it’s always been there, and it’s always affected the music. Maybe we didn’t fear as much, but musicians just have to be more creative and to be more elusive.
