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

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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

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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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AI won’t decimate the arts. We must interrogate it, but we can collaborate with it

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Opera makers have always engaged with the latest inventions while also preserving historic crafts. I believe it’s possible to look both forwards and backwards in this fast-evolving landscapeThe disquiet and distrust surrounding artificial intelligence among artists and creatives remain real and consequential, and the language used by leading arts commentators is often apocalyptic: AI will

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AI ‘art’ is boring, soulless theft – and when I see it as an artist I see red | Jess Harwood

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I draw the old way – with my hand. Doing it with AI would not make me more creative, it would drain the colour out of my existenceLast week I went to a gig by myself for the first time. I sat myself down in my single seat, possibly the youngest person in the room

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Spotify says its AI remix tool protects artists from unregulated ‘slop’

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Critics of platform’s proposed new feature say it could accelerate the spread of machine-generated musicSpotify’s chief executive has said the company’s move into AI-generated music offers users and creators a better alternative to unregulated AI slop.Last week, the platform announced a new feature in which premium users will be allowed to create their own, AI-generated

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Spotify and Universal Music agree deal to let subscribers create AI remixes

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Licensing agreement will allow listeners to use AI to create content on streaming platform for first timeSpotify and Universal Music Group have agreed on a deal that will allow subscribers to generate song covers and remixes using artificial intelligence.The licensing agreement is the first time the Swedish streaming company will allow listeners to use AI

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John Lennon: The Last Interview review – Soderbergh imagines there’s no people with bland AI clipshow

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Succession of pointless AI-generated snippets does nothing for film about the artist’s final interview, which took place on the day of his murderComing just after his superb feature The Christophers, Steven Soderbergh has now made a surprisingly moderate documentary, dominated and frankly marred by uninteresting and pointless AI. It is about the inadvertently poignant final

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Molière Ex Machina: AI used to create ‘new work’ by beloved French playwright

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Comedy debuts at Versailles featuring dialogue, music, costumes and scenery created with help of AI tool Le ChatEurope live – latest updatesMolière is to the French, what Shakespeare is to the English; the last word in historical literature, drama, wit and satire.Now, more than 350 years after his death, the 17th century dramatist has been

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From Smashing Pumpkins to Ferris Bueller: new Australian indie video game Mixtape is a blast of nostalgia

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In the game by Melbourne-based Beethoven and Dinosaur, you play as a teenage girl the night before moving to New York – drinking, skateboarding and getting into trouble, all soundtracked by 80s and 90s classicsWhen Johnny Galvatron was 14, his cousin gave him a copy of the Smashing Pumpkins’ seminal 1995 album, Mellon Collie and

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‘It will never cover what’s authentic’: African music industry weighs up AI risks and rewards

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Delegates at event in Cape Verde highlight opportunities from tech while stressing AI is no replacement for talentLast July, the Nigerian singer-songwriter Fave found herself caught up in a viral moment: an unauthorised version of a track featuring an AI choir had been released, quickly becoming an internet sensation. To get ahead of the situation,

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