Devin Arne

Composer of music for media, film and installations. I tweet about music and technology.

[Devin Arne @devinarne]

Hi everyone, taking a break from X for a bit. I'll be working on a new research project this winter and will most likely return then. Be kind, be safe.

[Devin Arne @devinarne]

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[Joshua Eustis @telefontelaviv]

There are three types of electronic music producers

[Devin Arne @devinarne]

If you are a musician, music industry professional or a music lover take a moment to read to the motions filed against Suno and Udio. See links in @ednewtonrex ‘s analysis below

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

The 3 major record labels are suing AI music companies Suno and Udio. Here are the two lawsuits in full.

- They accuse Suno & Udio of “willful copyright infringement on an almost unimaginable scale”
- They provide evidence that both companies trained on their music, including outputs that closely resemble their recordings (ABBA, Michael Jackson, Green Day, James Brown, & many more)
- They outline why this is not fair use
- They say this “wholesale theft of… copyrighted recordings threatens the entire music ecosystem and the numerous people it employs”
- They include unknown co-defendants who assisted in copying/scraping
- They demand a jury trial

If you do one thing today, read the full complaints.

🧵 of some of the outputs 👇

Suno: https://t.co/V2rZju4BeK
Udio: https://t.co/RiXFsP1qIQ

[Devin Arne @devinarne]

@dylanowenmusic @TheTrueAbstract Amazing! Have a great show, we’re up in MA this week otherwise I’d make the drive out from Philly to come see the show!

[Devin Arne @devinarne]

@deeplearnmusic Congratulations! This is an amazing tool, the one stem at a time approach is great for musicians/producers as it gives granular control. I could also see this as helpful for film/TV composers to make variations on themes and cues. Hope to be able to use this in the near future!

[Devin Arne @devinarne]

@theFinneganegan So cool! Congrats on the release.

[Devin Arne @devinarne]

@JLenzyy @navreyort @zlbdad @JLenzyy , looking forward to meeting you as well!

[Devin Arne @devinarne]

"How can AI enable the musicians of tomorrow?” I'm thrilled to dive into this topic with @navreyort @zlbdad and Carlos Arana at the "Educating the Next Generation of AI-Enabled Musicians" panel at next week’s AES Symposium on AI and The Musician https://t.co/4bJqLC4hWQ

[samim @samim]

Best Practice

[neil turkewitz @neilturkewitz]

The rollout of AI summaries instead of search results threatens to undermine any collective sense of shared history, thereby unraveling the threads that bind us, & abandoning truth as a guide.

On both a literal & philosophical level, what happens when we stop searching?

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

On World IP Day, a reminder that the internationally agreed Berne Convention forbids copying that “unreasonably prejudice[s] the legitimate interests of the author.” Fair use, and other copyright exceptions, have to meet this standard.

Copying people’s work to build a generative AI model that competes with them clearly unreasonably prejudices their interests. It reduces their opportunities and decreases their income. This is already apparent.

Most of the gen AI world may have adopted this approach. But that doesn’t make it legal, and it doesn’t mean we should normalize it.

[Devin Arne @devinarne]

If you want to democratize something, develop tools to make it less expensive and easier to learn. Typing text prompts and receiving ready-made audio further mystifies and obscures the beautiful, joy-filled process of creating music.

[Devin Arne @devinarne]

AI startups talking about how they will 'democratize' music making (or art in general) is just as cringe as Facebook/Meta's "move fast and break stuff" mantra of their early years. https://t.co/Q2bKegGzU2

[Devin Arne @devinarne]

The first session of my new lecture and discussion series starts today! Very excited to talk about and learn more about our student’s perspectives on generative AI and Music.

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new turing test just dropped

[AudioShake @AudioShakeAI]

After an unreleased performance of the Tomasz Stanko Quintet was found, @AstigmaticRec turned to AudioShake to create stems of the 50-year-old recording. More on our work helping to master this radio broadcast turned vinyl album, “Wooden Music II”: https://t.co/4cfec4hmkt

[Irish Wildlife Sounds (Seán Ronayne) @SoundsIrish]

This blew me away today: a singing cow gate!

Geophony (strong wind) meets antrophony (cow gate), with a sprinkle of biophony (passing jackdaws and a late bumblebee!).

I was taken aback at how musical this sounded as the wind flowed through the nooks & crannies. Just beautiful

[Devin Arne @devinarne]

@ethanhein Love this question. I think a rapped verse falls into the same category as a jazz solo. One can transcribe it to learn from it, but it would be gauche to perform or record it as is and pass it off as a genuine artistic statement.

[Devin Arne @devinarne]

@Komaniecki_R As a grad of McGill, this is sad to see. I would have, and sure many others would too, gladly accepted mandatory French language classes. Punishing out of province and international students is not the move.

[Devin Arne @devinarne]

Read this, understand this. Embrace your limitations, your imperfections your humanity. This is it folks, the only way forward.

[manovich @manovich]

My "Letter to a A Young Artist" - how to survive in #GenerativeAI era? One possible strategy based on my 50 years in the arts.