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Music in training sets is the new Spotify Wrapped: how genAI uses your music

This has to be peak 2026 music tech. Across every feed, producers I follow are posting the same revelation: they’re finding their own music in training sets used by AI. Investigations by Alex Reisner at The Atlantic are making this more visible — and visceral. And the findings are actually much worse than I think […]

Tbilisi’s music scene is still out in the streets, defiant

While the year draws to a close and much of the world is focused on holidays, Tbilisi’s music community is out in force in ongoing protests, fighting for Georgian democracy.

Peter Kirn - December 27, 2024

Minimoog’s missing link: how an icon was born in summer of 1970

How did the Minimoog take shape – and set the course of synthesizer and musical instrument history? Among many revelations in JoE Silva’s The Minimoog Book for BJOOKS, we learn how the synth’s early prototypes evolved into the instrument we know today. Read the excerpt here.

Peter Kirn - December 20, 2024