SOPHIE is international Google Doodle today on her birthday

September 17, 2024, would have been hyper pop legend Sophie Xenon’s 38th birthday. Just over three years after her death, Google has put her in the spotlight internationally on its “Doodle” on the search engine’s homepage—hopefully a chance for folks to discover or rediscover her music, which seems more prescient than ever.

Welcome to YouTube Hell: A MIDI pack reseller silences criticism

YouTube is elevating new voices to prominence in music technology as in other fields. But the platform’s esoteric rules are also ripe for abuse – as one YouTube host claims.

Peter Kirn - April 30, 2019

Magenta Studio lets you use AI tools for inspiration in Ableton Live

Instead of just accepting all this machine learning hype, why not put it to the test? Magenta Studio lets you experiment with open source machine learning tools, standalone or inside Ableton Live.

Peter Kirn - February 12, 2019

Minds, machines, and centralization: AI and music

Peter Kirn - June 15, 2018

A look at AI’s strange and dystopian future for art, music, and society

Peter Kirn - June 11, 2018

Accusonus explain how they’re using AI to make tools for musicians

Peter Kirn - November 17, 2017

Perform these cool music tech search engine tricks, with DuckDuckGo

Peter Kirn - August 2, 2017

SoundCloud tries to allay fears, but streaming needs a business model

Peter Kirn - July 17, 2017

Bonobo has turned a track into a tranquil, trippy VR journey

Peter Kirn - June 1, 2017

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