The Illiac Suite - Music and AI – Details, episodes & analysis

It is a pleasure to have Andrew Melchior in the new episode of "The Illiac Suite". Andy began as a classically trained pianist and later explored digital music production and internet technologies, leading to a job at EMI Music. His career expanded into photography, digital energy, and augmented reality, eventually working with Magic Leap and renowned artists like Björk and Massive Attack. He played a key role in innovative projects such as Björk Digital, the VR album Vulnicura, and AI-driven music experiences. Since COVID, he has been a freelance artist, working on AI-driven creative projects, including a sonic artwork for the European Capital of Culture 2026 and an AI-powered spatial audio experience in Poland.

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Videos now have a standard function that allows us to automatically read what is being said. The subtitles can even be displayed in different languages. The principle is similar when it comes to transcribing sheet music, not necessarily in real time, but relatively quickly after the music has played. The artificial intelligence “klang.io” is responsible for precisely this. I spoke to founder Sebastian Murgul about how he came up with the idea, what the AI can do, what the problems are and who it is actually intended for. All this in the new episode!

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It was that time of the year: The SXSW invited music, film and tech enthusiasts for another edition. Music and Artificial Intelligence was of course also a topic at the festival. I met some really interesting people, had some nice conversations and listened to a lot of interesting panels. Listen to the new episode to find out more.

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A few months ago, OpenAI the company behind ChatGPT, reportedly asked the British Parliament to authorize the free use of copyrighted works. Their argument: It is impossible to train artificial intelligence without this type of data. The statement sounds like a free pass for copyright infringements until the law clarifies what is really allowed and what is not. The topic is particularly debated in the music industry. This is because pieces of music are used in large datasets to create new songs. Ed Newton-Rex did not want to accept this. Last year, the American left Stability AI - whose AI can be used to generate music among other things - because too much was being stolen. He has now launched “Fairly Trained” to counteract this. We talked about this. Also Diaa El All will join later. He is the Co-Founder of Soundflul which is a generative AI company that uses the service of Fairly Trained.

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Neverending Story "by" Freddie Mercury:

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Albert Nussfelder Productions

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In 2018 Hazel Savage started Musiio, wich combines AI technology with specialist music knowledge to solve a range of problems facing catalogue owners.  They automate tagging, supercharge search and provide highly detailed music analysis and reports for customers around the world. In 2022 Soundcloud acquired Musiio with the goal to amplify SoundCloud’s existing music intelligence capabilities and allow the company to further leverage its data to identify what’s next in music trends and talent. I spoke with Hazel about "her" artificial intelligence: What it does? How it works? And why Star Trek was just such an amazing TV Show...

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Ginkinta

Dankton - STP

(Warnings: The songs contain explicit lyrics!)

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Daniel Stein is a producer and musician in the dubstep and drum and bass scene. He is known there under the name "DJ Fresh". The Brit has released several top ten tracks. When artificial intelligence appeared on the scene a few years ago, he was worried about the music industry. Together with his partner Nico Pellerin, he came up with the idea for "Voice Swap". There you can officially and legally clone the voice of a known singer. He and Angie Brown, who is in his roster, talked with me about the use of a cloned voice.

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Music generated by Mubert

Anna Indiana: Miles of Smiles

Freddie Mercury: All I Want For Christmas Is You (AI Cover)

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 It was the news of the last weeks: The Beatles published a new song called "Now and Then" which theoretically is not true as George and John unfortunately have already passed away. But it shows in which direction we are heading in the future. We can create music now that would not exist without the help of artificial intelligence. So how did they do it? Paul and Ringo took an old recording of John Lennon and an AI separated the voice from the piano (and then they also added old demos of George). The technology is called “stem separation”. Audioshake offers the same service. I had a chat with CEO and Co- Founder Jessica Powell.

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Music generated by Mubert

Lana Del Rey - Fade Into You

Johnny Cash - The Sound of Silence

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Famous Yesterday - Make You

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Music has played with artificial Intelligence since decades but it was not until 2016 when a little song got the attention of the whole world: "Daddy's Car", a song that was composed in the Sony CSL Research Laboratory with the help of the musician Benoit Carré and an AI. Since then a lot has happened, AI is everywhere and Carré started the project "Skygge" in which he also uses artificial intelligence. How he does it and what he thinks about it, find it out in the new episode.

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Mubert generated Track

Gangsta's Paradise (AI Toothbrush Version)

Benoît Carré: Daddy's Car

Skygge: "Ballad of the Shadow" from the album "Hello World"

Skygge: "One Note Samba" from the album "Hello World"

Skygge: "Multi Mega Fortune" from the album "Hello World"

21 Savage x Travis Scott - Whiplash by @Ghostwriter

Skygge: "Black is the Colour" from the album "American Folk Songs"

Skygge: "Amazing Grace" from the album "American Folk Songs"

Skygge: "The Fall of the Rebel Angels" from the album "Melancholia"

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There are many AI models where you can enter text and generate songs. So words should describe the music you want to listen to in the end. But how does an artificial intelligence learn what music sounds like? Metadata must be associated with the songs so that descriptions are assigned. But that's not as easy for music as it is for images, for example. I talked about the difficulties with Paul Zgordan from Mubert and Roman Gebhardt from Cyanite.

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Whitney Houston - Bohemian Rhapsody  Queen AI cover

Track: "13 Degrees", Shryne

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Track: "This Is The Sign You’ve Been Looking For", RINGO

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Track: "Nice Dream", RINGO

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Track: "Dancefloor Therapy", Mom Bod

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In this episode we dive into the realm of the artist Portrait XO. Her album "Wire" was released end of the last year. For that she trained with CJ Carr from the Dadabots an AI on her own voice. What came out of this was then each time woven into the songs in different ways. How Portrait XO did that, what her take on AI in general is and what other artists she likes, you will hear it in this new episode of "The Illiac Suite".

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Kanye West: "Summertime Sadness"
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Reeps One ft. A.I.: 'Second Self'

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