By Janko Roettgers February 09, 2024 Stevie Wonder. Ray Charles. Andrea Bocelli. If you were to ask a random person to name a blind musician, one of those three would almost inevitably come up. Ask that same person about up-and-coming blind musicians, and they’ll likely draw a blank. That’s no accident, according to Athan … Continue reading The quest to build more accessible music tech for blind and visually impaired artists
Strike A Chord: The Connection Between Music And Search by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, December 15, 2023 From her Dallas-based home office with several guitars hanging on the wall, Amy Rumpler, senior vice president of search and social media services at Basis Technologies, talked about music, instruments, and the integration with Google Performance Max. … Continue reading Strike A Chord: The Connection Between Music And Search
YouTube rolls out AI music makers to take on TikTok Radek Zielinski / Nov 17, 2023 YouTube has unveiled two new AI-powered music creation tools — Dream Track and Music AI — to help creators make engaging short videos that compete better with rivals like TikTok. The new tools allow users to generate original songs … Continue reading YouTube rolls out AI music makers to take on TikTok
Block acquires music financial services startup Hifi Deanna Ritchie / Oct 12, 2023 Jack Dorsey, the founder of Block — which used to be Square — has now acquired Hifi, a music-focused fintech startup. HiFi was launched in the US in 2020. Matt Pincus joined the HiFi board and became an investor in the … Continue reading Block acquires music financial services startup Hifi
YouTube, Universal Music Group Announce Incubator, Principles For AI by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 21, 2023 YouTube has launched the YouTube Music AI Incubator program with artists, songwriters and producers from Universal Music Group, which supported the creation of three music principles based on generative artificial intelligence (GAI). The program combines some of today’s most … Continue reading YouTube, Universal Music Group Announce Incubator, Principles For AI
Spotify opens video podcast publishing to more creators Jon Fingas @jonfingas Spotify is ready to let anyone offer video podcasts — and this time, you won’t need to apply. As of today, all creators in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand can publish video podcasts through Anchor. You can charge … Continue reading Spotify reportedly wants to add full-length music videos to its app
Former ByteDance exec claims company used bots to inflate TikTok engagement Karissa Bell @karissabe TikTok is still fighting to remain operational in the United States, but a new lawsuit could complicate things even further for the company. A former ByteDance executive has alleged TikTok’s owner used bots and stolen content to inflate the … Continue reading TikTok-owner ByteDance debuts Ripple music creation app
AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd song pulled from streaming platforms Igor Bonifacic @igorbonifacic If you spent almost any time on the internet this week, you probably saw a lot of chatter about “Heart on My Sleeve.” The song went viral for featuring AI-generated voices that do a pretty good job of mimicking Drake … Continue reading AI-generated music won’t win a Grammy anytime soon
Terrence O’Brien @TerrenceOBrien Ableton announced Live 11 in mid November and now it’s finally here. The latest version of its incredibly popular DAW is out of beta and available to all. The list of new features in Live 11 is long and impressive: Comping; linked track editing; MPE support; expression editing; live tempo following; macro … Continue reading Ableton’s Live 11 music production software is 20 percent off
Duolingo’s ABC app will teach kids how to read and write Mariella Moon @mariella_moon Duolingo will release a new app in the coming months with a new audience in mind: children as young as four. It will be called Duolingo ABC, and the company told Wired UK that it will initially focus on teaching kids … Continue reading Duolingo is building a music learning app
