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Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac

Bayreuth festival theatre, BayreuthFor the festival’s 150th anniversary, the creative team have turned to AI to generate visuals reflecting Wagner’s tetralogy’s past, present – and future. The hyperactive result is a dismal, mindless messUnveiled the same week in which tech company Anthropic admitted that its AI model Claude had gone rogue during testing, Bayreuth festival’s

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Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review

BBC Philharmonic/Havlat/Kaziboni/Piatti Quartet(NMC)Einstein’s field equations, Newton’s universal law and artificial intelligence are among the subjects of Laidlow’s ambitious orchestral worksRobert Laidlow is as at home in the realms of science and technology as he is in the world of classical music. As this NMC debut album demonstrates, his intricate, wildly imaginative work is eminently approachable,

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Open earbuds let you tune in without tuning out the world. Here are the five best pairs

Don’t float through the world in an AirPod bubble – enjoy music or podcasts and carry on using these tested favoritesI tested 42 pairs of wireless earbuds to find the best in USSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsIn a feat of engineering that borders on magic,

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Is the most popular song played on Australian radio stations the product of generative AI?

Josh Fawaz’s song, a cover of Like a Prayer, has raised questions over how generative AI is being used in music and whether it should be declaredAn Australian producer has gone from a little-known artist to a viral sensation in a matter of months, with his hit song catapulting onto global charts and receiving thousands

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‘Don’t kill music’: Anthony Albanese’s favourite bands beg PM to stop AI companies from stealing their work

A potential deal with the government would allow international tech companies to mine the creative work of Australian musicians. Some of the prime minister’s favourite artists told the Guardian how they feel about itCreatives sound alarm on copyright as Pocock calls $50bn datacentre proposal ‘ultimate dirty deal’Big tech companies are asking for Australian copyright laws

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Inaugural Music Technology Research Showcase celebrates work of new graduate program’s initial students

The MIT Music Technology and Computation (MTC) Graduate Program — launched in fall 2024 as a collaboration between the Music and Theater Arts Section in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), and the School of Engineering (SoE) — presented its inaugural MIT Music Technology Research Showcase on May 13. The event played

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Australian musicians sound warning note after Nick Cave, Kylie and many more slurped into AI training tool

‘It’s all just rendered useless’ Something For Kate’s Paul Dempsey says as AI scrapes millions of songs to learn how to make musicPaul Dempsey and Bernard Fanning are among big-name Australian musicians upset that their original songs have been found in datasets used to train artificial intelligence.A dataset search tool recently created by US publication

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The Guardian view on the analogue resurgence: the shock of the old | Editorial

Long-abandoned formats such as cassettes and VHS tapes are finding new life as consumers seek a digital detoxTen years after the last video recorder manufacturer ceased production, the first straight-to-video movie for two decades – This Is How the World Ends – was released this month. The resurgence of vinyl began long ago; sales are

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Tod Machover receives George Peabody Medal for contributions to music and technology

Tod Machover, the Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media, faculty director of the MIT Media Lab, and director of the Opera of the Future research group, will receive the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music and Dance in America — the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody Institute of the Johns

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