Play on Player

Most recent stories in Play on Player

• 

  Sam Proud

  

  May 26

  Will AI Kill Human Creativity?

  northwestern.edu

  What Fake Drake tells us about what’s ahead.

• 

  Sam Proud

  

  AI comes for the DJ: London partygoers rave to robot beats

  Reuters - By Vin Shahrestani

  In front of an empty DJ booth at an East London nightclub, partygoers danced to AI-generated beats in a unique experimental rave that sought to test whether an app can match the vibe of real-life records and a mixer.

• 

  Sam Proud

  

  Spotify Wants To Hook Users On AI Music Creation Tools

  Forbes - Bill Hochberg

  One tool will let you tweak a song’s rhythm or melody. Another can take a pop song from, say, Justin Bieber or Drake and combine it with a fugue by Schubert or Bach, if that’s your thing. “You’ll be able to try all sorts of combinations,” says Francois Pachet, director of AI research and development …

• 

  Sam Proud

  

  Could AI generate music’s Instagram moment?

  midiaresearch.com - Tatiana Cirisano

  Pop quiz: Is the hit ‘Kill Bill’ sung by SZA or Ariana Grande? The answer is, of course, SZA, but TikTok users could be forgiven for any confusion. …

• 

  Sam Proud

  

  Without Ye, Kano plans a future for the Stem Player

  Fast Company - By Mark Wilson

  Kano discusses a new projector, a Ghostface Killah partnership, and the complications of falling out and moving on without its collaborator Ye. It looks like a UFO. There’s not a sharp corner to be seen on the sleek, gray orb. But glance to a nearby wall, and you’ll realize that this “spaceship” is …

• 

  Sam Proud

  

  James Blake Pivots to Background Music

  The New Yorker - Sheldon Pearce

  The sounds recorded on the artist’s new A.I.-assisted album aren’t songs, per se, but they possess surprising glints of melodic elegance. In the streaming era, music has become the fuel of the Internet’s endless white-noise machine. Lo-fi ambient music—much of which mines and dilutes the more …