Apple has issued an apology over its iPad ad showing musical instruments being crushed in an industrial press. The one-minute and eight-second ad was released...
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“Crushing a piano, trumpet, and guitar evokes the same primal horrific sacrilege as watching books burn”
The new deal also addresses the issue of generative AI in music
The UK cross-party report comes as FKA twigs spoke to a US Senate subcommittee on intellectual property about her own AI deepfake tools and the importance of artist agency
AI tool Udio has launched with the backing of musicians will.i.am and Common
The AI model has been trained on over 2000 hours of the Dutch artist's original music and recordings from more than 1000 live shows
The new AI-powered tool introduces new revolutionary audio editing functionality
HitNMix is launching its innovative RipX DAW in a new format built specifically for Apple’s XR headset
DJ Fresh’s new platform lets users convert their voices to other singers using AI
Among the findings, 79% of people felt that "human creativity remains essential to the creation of music."
Charli XCX, Sia and Demi Legato are joining the experiment
Alongside deep fake videos, music 'mimicking' real artists will also be targeted, with penalties including account suspension
A Pirate Studios survey showed that 52% of artists would keep their AI use a secret
The worldwide premiere of ‘Intermundium’ is set for October 27th
Emerging technology has left the DAW at a crossroads. A combination of legacy code, compatibility restrictions and a user base who expect their favourite tools to remain familiar has left music-making software lacking innovation. As the pandemic, cloud-computing and generative AI shift expectations of how music-making tools should look and feel, Declan McGlynn asks: will the DAW adapt or die?
Sampling has been a central pillar of music production in the 30-odd years since MPCs hit the shelves, crucial to the development of hip-hop, breakbeat, house, jungle, and countless splinter styles across the dance spectrum. In the decades since, ever-shifting technology has slowly vaporised the analogue world that sampling was built from. Here, Chal Ravens asks: how is the culture of sampling evolving?
"The vocals were not legally obtained, the vocals were not cleared by the label or the artists and the song is not commercially available", the Recording Academy CEO said in a new statement
The AI-assisted track is eligible for nomination due to recent guideline changes introduced earlier this year
The Timehri Dig Assistant is aimed at helping users "explore the depths of Discogs"
It's part of a joint research project between the multi-national company and Osaka University