Jlin, Holly Herndon, and ‘Spawn’ find beauty in AI’s flaws

Musicians don’t just endure technology when it breaks. They embrace the broken. So it’s fitting that Holly Herndon’s team have produced a demonic spawn of machine learning algorithms – and that the results are wonderful.

Upload music directly to Spotify: streaming giant goes in new direction

Spotify has begun opening uploading not just to labels and distributors, but individual artists. And the implications of that could be massive, if the service is expanded – or if rivals follow suit.

Peter Kirn - September 20, 2018

BBC gives away 16k WAV sound effects, but disallows some uses

Maybe it’s time for the idea of a “commons” to get a new boost. Whatever the reason, BBC’s 16,000 sound effects are available to download – but with strings attached.

Peter Kirn - April 24, 2018

SoundCloud adds scheduled releases, in creator and podcaster focus

Peter Kirn - April 2, 2018

An online and mobile DAW called BandLab just acquired Cakewalk’s IP

Peter Kirn - February 23, 2018

Sending music to LANDR now gets your music up on Beatport

Peter Kirn - February 16, 2018

Sounds.com is a new cloud tool for loops and samples from NI

Peter Kirn - January 17, 2018

Roland and MIT want to use music to teach kids programming

Peter Kirn - January 9, 2018

Have yourself some very procedural holidays in your browser

Peter Kirn - December 24, 2017

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