The Grammys will consider that viral song with Drake and The Weeknd AI vocals for awards after all

Posted on September 8, 2023 by Robin Edgar

The person behind an AI-generated song that went viral earlier this year has submitted the track for Grammy Awards consideration. The Recording Academy has stated that such works aren’t eligible for certain gongs. However, Ghostwriter, the pseudonymous person behind “Heart on My Sleeve,” has submitted the track in the best rap song and song of Read more about The Grammys will consider that viral song with Drake and The Weeknd AI vocals for awards after all[…]

Grimes invites AI artists to use her voice, promising 50 percent royalty split

Posted on April 25, 2023 by Robin Edgar

Canadian synth-pop artist Grimes says AI artists can use her voice without worrying about copyright or legal enforcement. “I’ll split 50% royalties on any successful AI generated song that uses my voice. Same deal as I would with any artist i collab with,” she tweeted on Sunday. “Feel free to use my voice without penalty. Read more about Grimes invites AI artists to use her voice, promising 50 percent royalty split[…]

MusicLM generates music from text descriptions – pretty awesome

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Robin Edgar

We introduce MusicLM, a model generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions such as “a calming violin melody backed by a distorted guitar riff”. MusicLM casts the process of conditional music generation as a hierarchical sequence-to-sequence modeling task, and it generates music at 24 kHz that remains consistent over several minutes. Our experiments show that MusicLM Read more about MusicLM generates music from text descriptions – pretty awesome[…]

These Two Mictic Bluetooth Bracelets Put an Entire Orchestra of Virtual Instruments in Your Hands (IOS only :'( )

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Robin Edgar

[…] the Mictic One are two Bkuetooth bracelets equipped with movement sensors. The bracelets connect to a mobile device (only iOS at the moment, but the Android version is under development). From the Mictic application, we can select different musical instruments and control the sound they produce by moving our hands and arms. Think of Read more about These Two Mictic Bluetooth Bracelets Put an Entire Orchestra of Virtual Instruments in Your Hands (IOS only :'( )[…]

The AI software that could turn you in to a music star

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Robin Edgar

If you have ever dreamed of earning money from a stellar music career but were concerned you had little talent, don’t let that put you off – a man called Alex Mitchell might be able to help. Mr Mitchell is the founder and boss of a website and app called Boomy, which helps its users Read more about The AI software that could turn you in to a music star[…]

Winamp to die!

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Robin Edgar

Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date via Download Winamp Media Player – Free MP3, Video, and Music Player – Winamp. That is hugely depressing!

Spotify: If musicians don’t give us their stuff they get pirated more • The Register

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Robin Edgar

In a study encompassing torrents, releases to new media and concerts it truns out that if music is not released quickly on legal services like spotify, it is pirated much more often. Register

Study shows even professional musicians can’t tell old master violins from new

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Robin Edgar

Which means the money you spent on that Stradivarius was basically wasted on a myth. Study shows even professional musicians can’t tell old master violins from new.

Rear projected transparent DJ Mix Decks

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Robin Edgar

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Turning birds into music

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Robin Edgar

Looking at birds on a powerline and turning that into a musical score is one thing. The fact that it’s quite attractive music is fairly amazing! Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo. This Clip is Proof That Birds Are Secretly Composers – Musical birds – Gizmodo.

Mugasha DJ Sets

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Robin Edgar

Mugasha collects sets world famous DJs have played and streams them online for you. The best way to listen to electronic music online | Mugasha.

Buma / Stemra goes nuts and wins in NL

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Robin

The Dutch version of the RIAA is called BUMA / STEMRA and they hunt down people for their own personal gain in about the same way RIAA does. They’ve sued a company for allowing their workers to listen to their own ipods. In NL companies apparently need to pay BUMA / STEMRA if they allow Read more about Buma / Stemra goes nuts and wins in NL[…]

KITT in a video clip

Posted on July 8, 2006June 4, 2009 by Michiel

I’d heard rumours that David Hasslehoff made music and had some ego problems, but that left me unprepared for his latest foray into the realm of popular culture. wtf? Take your time and watch the whole thing. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3382491587979249836

The ultimate showdown

Posted on December 31, 2005June 4, 2009 by Michiel

.. of Ultimate Destiny! http://ldopa.net.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/uploads/TheUltimateShowdown.swf They certainly needed a lot of superheroes to defeat Chuck! You can grab the mp3 here – http://www.eviltrailmix.com/lemondemon/downloads.html

American Edit

Posted on November 26, 2005June 4, 2009 by Michiel

Someone went and remixed Green Day’s American Idiot and threw in the Doctor Who theme, Bush ranting about evil, hip hop, samples from all over and some other random stuff. Although sounding like a recipe for disaster, this stuff actually works. Fire up your iPod and give this one a shot: http://www.americanedit.net/