✖️ Can computers be creative? 🤖 Deezer & user-centric payouts 💰 Music, custom for your brain 🎧
Hi there
🎉 Today’s my first day as Product Director at IDAGIO.
🏡 Meanwhile, it looks like I already found a flat here in Berlin. Much faster than when I moved to Moscow, where I lived from a hotel for 2-3 week (turns out that really sucks).
💡 This week: a short thought piece. I’m still getting settled, and getting familiar with German bureaucracy. Longer piece next week!
Love,
Bas
From me, for you
Computers won’t have to be creative
Every discussion about creative AI sooner or later invites the same objection: “computers will never be able to be creative.”
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Streaming music
Now indie labels can window albums on Spotify Premium thanks to Merlin deal
Looks like Merlin is getting some of the same terms that Universal got in their new contract with Spotify. Will be interesting to see what happens. (my take)
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Facebook announces Spotify music bot for Facebook Messenger
Bringing Spotify’s search, recommendations, and browsing straight into Messenger.
Deezer is exploring user centric licensing
Many people think that the money they pay to streaming services each month is distributed to the artists they listen to. They’re wrong. It’s pooled with total listens and distributed that way. That means that if you only listened to one artist in any given month, it’s possible that they may see just a few cents of revenue. Good to see one of the large services exploring this model.
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Beyond streaming
8 companies that are coupling AI with music
Regular, long-term readers of the newsletter will already be familiar with some of these.
Interesting thought piece exploring the question of why labels haven’t given up on sales yet, with access models obviously holding more commercial promise than ownership models. (twitter discussion thread)
How to tell if your music distributor is ripping you off
A music distributor discusses how music distributors rip people that use music distributors off.
Wide view
Brain.fm and other music-streaming apps can now curate music based on your brainwaves
Soon you will be able to plug in your headphones, lean back in your chair, and relax to a playlist so synchronized with your brain’s chemistry that it increases your productivity, sleep quality, and even fights anxiety.
Are music festival lineups getting worse?
Another data-crunch, similar to Cherie Hu’s recent one, but this one also looks at gender.
Why throwing raves in forbidden spaces is an act of political resistance
Female-run DJ collective Mamba Negra explain why they are starting a social movement on the São Paulo streets.
Fun
The Global Jukebox pays tribute to the expressive styles of all peoples within the framework of cultural equity
and the diversity which is crucial to our survival as a species.
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