Technology

Your shower concert just got a bit more interesting. IKEA is continuing its foray into the speaker game with a $15 waterproof speaker packing 80 hours of battery life. In the latest expansion of the VAPPEBY line, the homeware and furniture manufacturer takes another plunge into Bluetooth speakers, in a bid to undercut other affordable […]

The move is hoped to give fans exclusive collectable and interactive experiences with artists and labels. The Beatport Group is expanding its repertoire and launching a Web3 electronic music platform in partnership with the blockchain platform Polkadot. The move is hoped to give fans exclusive collectable and interactive experiences with artists and labels. The platform, […]

Google researchers have introduced MusicLM, an AI model that can generate high-fidelity music from text. MusicLM creates music at a constant 24 kHz throughout a number of minutes by modeling the conditional music generating process as a hierarchical sequence-to-sequence modeling problem. According to the research paper, MusicLM was trained on a dataset of 280,000 hours […]

Supreme portability and an open-source operating system may make this a must-buy for live performers Watch out, Novation – music technology newcomer 203 has announced the Matrix MIDI grid controller, alongside an advanced model, Matrix Pro, that boast “extreme portability” and an open-source operating system. Designed as a composition, live performance and light show tool, […]

We asked the internet’s hottest AI chatbot how it could help with music-making tasks and here’s what it came up with. No, this article wasn’t generated by ChatGPT. However, we did ask the complex AI bot about five ways it could help with music-making tasks and this was what it came up with. What is […]

Nick Cave has condemned a song designed and directed by ChatGPT. But new technology should be embraced, not feared Nick Cave performing at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre, 30 November 2022. The singer-songwriter described an AI-written song as ‘a replication, a kind of burlesque’. Photograph: Richard Nicholson/REX/Shutterstock Earlier this week, a fan called Mark sent, for reasons […]