Can AI be a Music Manager?; Recording Academy, IBM are Bringing Generative AI to the 2024 Grammys

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Can an AI be a music manager?

Here’s something to make our music-manager readers choke on your cornflakes (other breakfasts are available). It’s a startup called Mngrs·ai that is, yes, an AI music manager. “Your dedicated music manager, providing you with the support you’ve been longing for, thanks to the power of AI,” according to its website.

The Recording Academy and IBM are bringing generative AI to the 2024 Grammys

During the 2024 Grammy Awards, one name aims to strike a different kind of chord: Watson.

On what’s known as “Music’s Biggest Night,” The Recording Academy and IBM will use generative AI to create content for Grammy Awards social channels and give music fans a way to make their own AI-generated content, the companies told Digiday.

Guns N' Roses Unveil AI-Generated Video for "The General"

The animated clip intercuts live performance footage with a narrative story.

Setmixer raises £600k for AI-mixed recordings of live music

The startup says its platform lets musicians create multitrack recordings – captured in up to 64-channel quality and mixed automatically – out of live concerts.

Setmixer said it can provide artists and labels with additional revenue options by giving fans the live music experience from anywhere.

Like Netflix, music needs a ‘second screen’ strategy

The attention economy is more competitive than ever, with all entertainment types increasingly competing with each other for the same finite time. This has led to new levels of multitasking, like listening to a podcast while doing the daily Wordle, or online shopping from your iPhone while catching up on The Crown.  Netflix is keenly aware of the latter.

Nile Rodgers on his proudest moment and the 'fantastic' potential of AI in music

Record producer extraordinaire. Guitar wizard. Maestro composer. Philanthropist and master storyteller. Nile Rodgers is the very definition of a living legend. 

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⚙️ Cool Tools

• Fadr Releases Text-to-Synth Tool, First in the World

• With $760K, this UK-based musictech by ex-Spotify alum is launching an AI mixing tool

• Aux adds Direct, a print-on-demand Bandcamp Direct to Fan alternative

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© Copyright/wrong

• Hollywood Musicians Begin Bargaining With Focus on Streaming and AI

• “Copyright Laws Were Not Designed for AI” Says Virginie Berger

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🎼 Innovation

• Nuclear Blast teams with The Sandbox on virtual experience

• Universal Music Group to launch ‘UMusicLift’ hub for music startups

• Former Hipgnosis exec Tom Stingemore launches new platform, ALLOY, to streamline sync licensing

• TikTok can generate AI songs, but it probably shouldn’t

• The Role of Machine Learning in Creating New Genres

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