Benn Jordan’s AI poison pill and the weird world of adversarial noise 

Benn Jordan’s latest video proposes a way to fight back when generative AI music services rip off music for their data sets. It’s not ready for prime time yet, but it does offer a window into the wild, wonderful world of adversarial noise poisoning attacks.

How Latvia’s Flow used open source Blender in Oscar animation win

Flow was the surprise of the Oscars: a true underground hit from Latvia’s writer/director Gints Zilbalodis. It’s beautiful, expressive, and intimate in a way that big-studio features are not. And it’s a triumph of making the tech operate on a human level, fully exploiting the free and open source Blender and its real-time render engine EEVEE.

Peter Kirn - March 6, 2025

“All rivers lead to the same ocean”: UbuWeb, pirate shadow library, is back

The underground treasure trove of “avant-garde artifacts” is back on the Internet, a source of light even in days of darkness.

Peter Kirn - February 6, 2025

Start your Black History Month in music by traveling back to the 6th century

Peter Kirn - February 4, 2025

Sinevibes’ YouTube account is terminated (updated: it’s back!)

Peter Kirn - February 3, 2025

Readings on Martin Luther King, Jr., music, and radical action

Peter Kirn - January 20, 2025

Asheville and southeast USA, we’re thinking of you

Peter Kirn - September 30, 2024

Boiler Room Syria in heavy, “overtly disobedient” sounds of diaspora

Peter Kirn - April 19, 2024

Roland and Universal Music Group partner on “AI for Music”

Peter Kirn - March 21, 2024

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