As technology develops to the point where AI is capable of creating original music, questions are being raised as to whether this computer generated music, and the people behind the code that make it possible, should be granted the same legal protections as more traditionally created music. _________________________________ Guest post…
Category archives: AI
UMG, AI Firm Super Hi-Fi Partner To ‘Explore The Space Between The Songs"
Universal Music Group has partnered with Super Hi-Fi, an artificial intelligence programming company that delivers song transition, voice-over and artist interview insertion solutions for music service providers. "Today the space between songs is a barren wasteland of dead air and jarring, abrupt transitions. Each time a song changes on services…
Universal Music Group Is Deploying AI to Boost Its Streaming Engagement
With streaming platforms overloaded with music, maybe it takes a robot to get noticed. Now, Universal Music Group is making some AI-driven plans for a rapidly-arriving future. The mega-label is teaming up with Super Hi-Fi to offer UMG artists new AI t…
AI Generated Music Gets $1.8M Boost With Amadeus Code Investment From World Innovation Lab
AI music generation platform Amadeus Code has landed $1.8 million in Series A funding.The round was led by VC firm World Innovation Lab. WiL’s Masataka Matsumoto will join coompany’s board. Amadeus Code is an artificial intelligence-powered songwriting assistant that breaks melodies down into their constituent parts (“licks”) and transforms them…
How AI Solves the Unclaimed Royalties Problem
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is a subject generating significant attention, both in the music industry and beyond. The following comes from Stephen Brady, Lead Software Engineer at Exactuals, a proud partner of DMN. Many fear AI could put jobs at ri…
Endel Inks With Warner Music: “We’re the First-Ever Algorithm to Sign a Major Label Deal”
Endel is a free app-based algorithm that produces personalized sounds to help focus and relax. It just signed a 20-album major label deal. Alongside the signing with Warner Music Group, the company also announced the release of a new skill for Amazon …
Warner Music Group just signed a record deal with an algorithm
A sound app called Endel has become the first-ever algorithm to sign a deal with a major label
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Orchard Co-Founder Issues Warning To Music Industry: ‘You’re Probably Going To Be Replaced’
In this article, Oisin Lunny shares a dire warning from Scott Cohen, the enigmatic music tech pioneer affiliated with company’s like, Spotify, The Orchard, and the British Phonographic Industry. In a recent keynote presentation, Cohen warned a massive industry sea change would likely soon reshape the music business entirely. _________________________________…
Will Robot’s Top The Chart? Musician’s Voice In Age Of AI
Here Marc G Tan looks ahead to future where artificial intelligence has become an integral part of the creative music process, and why it may or may not be the creative machine apocalypse which many people in the music business seem to fear. _________________________ Guest post by Marc G Tan…
AI Is Creating New Opportunities For Artists, Disruptors
When new technology is introduced to the music industry, artists and musicians often flock to it to create new music, and new businesses. The next tech now positioned to disrupt the music industry is predicted to fill this role is Artificial Intelligence )AI). ____________________________ Guest post by Taishi Fukuyama of…