Mf Robots

Will Robots Disrupt Live Music? How Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms Could Boost Ticket Sales

Source: HypeBot
February 20, 2016

Artificial intelligence may be set to disrupt the world of live music. Using data driven algorithms, AI would be able to calculate when and where artists should play, as well as streamline the currently deeply flawed means through which fans discover concerts happening in their area. Guest Post by Cortney Harding on Medium A few weeks ago, I posited that Artificial Intelligence could disrupt “background music”. While it wouldn’t replace pop stars (no robot could ever do what Beyonce did at ...
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Artificial Intelligence And The Music Industry: Will Robots Replace Musicians?

Source: HypeBot
February 2, 2016

With companies like Jukedeck allowing users with little to no musical knowledge to construct songs using an algorithm, some questions are being raised over how artists, particularly those without much personality, will fare should such automated songs become the norm. By Cortney Harding of Hypebot's Music Biz Podcast and author of How We Listen Now: Essays and Conversations About Music and Technology Take a look at any of the “cab drivers versus Uber” protests that flare up occasionally, and you’ll see a ...
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Tristano and the Robots

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
May 2, 2011

The animated digital robot spoofs springing up on the internet include several aimed at the jazz-insider culture, in particular at the hipper-than-thou talk exchanged among students of the art who may be ever so slightly over-educated and just too cool—but not too cool for words. There are plenty of words in these cartoons. One of the most inviting targets for robot satire is the school of musicians who pattern themselves on the playing and teachings of Lennie Tristano and his ...
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Japanese Robots Hope to Destroy the Music Industry as We Know It

Source: HypeBot
October 21, 2010

Japanese engineers have now developed a fembot that can sing J-pop, calling into stark question the future of human pop singers. According to technology blog Popsci, the robot, an HRP-4, was developed using breath-analysis software and mouth movement observation based on human models. The divabot blinks and opens her mouth appropriately as she sings, mimicking the patterns of a human singer. Watch The Video The singing is not a track recording, but instead actual singing using a technique called 'robotic ...
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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Robots Announce Fall Tour

Source: JamBase
September 1, 2010

THOSE AUTOMATONS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT! Our mechanical friends can be helpful or scary and, in this instance, serious jazz heads who dig the new Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey album, Stay Gold, and plan to catch the band on the road this fall. JFJO Fall Stay Gold Tour 09/03 Chelsea's—Baton Rouge, LA 09/04 Benies Boom Boom Room—Hattiesburg, MS 09/05 Louisiana Music Factory—New Orleans, LA (in store performance) 09/05 Blue Nile—New Orleans, LA ...
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The Digital Natives: A Generation of Broken Robots (Part One of Five)

Source: HypeBot
February 18, 2009

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor

The Broken Robots

I am a broken robot and don't know why. Yet what most profoundly perplexes me is whether or not I, myself, am the one that's broken or if it's the system itself that's actually broken. If the correct connotation is that the system is broken, how to we determine if it was broken before I came into the world or if, due to the behaviors that I developed in my digital ...
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