Disclosing AI use on music platforms shouldn’t give streaming platforms a free pass to flood catalogues with AI content. Listeners deserve clear and transparent labelling.
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Today, millions of musicians record and splice tracks from their bedrooms, closets and garages. Half a century ago, the funk pioneer revolutionized home recording.
My experience taught me there is a way to embrace AI’s capabilities without losing the human touch in music.
The visionary arranger thought of himself as a storyteller, not just a sound engineer.
‘Uncanny’ AI music generators blur the line between creators and consumers. Will they turn music from high art to an everyday language? Listen to these AI-generated tracks and judge for yourself.
The country’s creative and critical music culture will be substantially diminished if the university funding crisis hits any harder.
Learning the skills and techniques of music production has never been more accessible. Online tutorials and free music-creation resources have made it possible to create anytime and anywhere.
Clicking ‘random’ on album tracks does the artist a disservice. It can also mean the listener is missing out, too.
Aspiring singers can now use apps to record professional-sounding songs from their phones. This has the potential to disrupt the recording and publishing industry.
Depite new technologies for music dissimination, EDM artists located in cities have access to resources not available in non-metropolitan areas.
One of popular music’s most influential artists, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, turned 80 this year. It is a good time to acknowledge his work as irreducibly complex, deeply layered, subtle and nuanced.
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Associate Professor of Music Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Florida
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Lecturer in Popular Music, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Dalla Lana Fellow in Global Journalism, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Composition and Sonic Arts, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor, UNSW
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Learning and Teaching Developer, Bond University
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Associate Lecturer in Music Technology, University of Sydney
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Director, Media & Technology Studies, University of Alberta
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Senior Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor Popular Music and Media Studies, University of Alberta