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AIXchange wants to connect human artists with the GenAI ecosystem – enabling both to thrive. Their mission is to empower the GenAI music revolution by offering legal, high-quality music training data, ensuring ethical and compliant AI music generation. Sounds interesting and perfect for The Illiac Suite to take a deep dive into that. In this episode I talked to Steffen Holly, Head of Business Development​ at Fraunhofer Institut. He is part of AIXchange and does the academic research for them.

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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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2024 was exciting, fascinating, exhausting and grueling all at the same time. It will go down in the history books as the year in which artificial intelligence can write and produce music like us humans. 12 months in which there was much discussion about how artists should be paid for their music in data sets. Some even said that the question should be asked whether they should be paid at all. To discuss all this again, I got my friend Matthias Strobel on the mic. Matthias is the President of MusicTech Germany, the Federal Association for Music Technology. Together we look back...and a little forward.

The struggle is real: Musicians are currently trying to find a way to handle the fact that artificial intelligence companies are scraping their music from the internet to train their models...without paying for it. Rights holder on the other side want to know what music is generated by an AI so that they can proof in the future - when money should flow - which music of their catalogue was used for training purposes. I talked with two people who are currently trying to help these two parties with their programs: Syed Irfan Ali Meerza and his team developed HarmonyCloak, a software that "poisons" music so that artificial intelligence can not train with it. Virgnie Berger from MatchTune claims that they have cracked the Suno's AI music generating model.

In the beginning of September I attended the "New Visions For Music & Sound" Festival in Berlin. As the moderator I led a panel about "Generative AI and Music". That is where me Toronto-born SENAIDA (pronounced “Shuh-nay-duh”). They are a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist-technologist, sound architect, DJ, curator, and creative entrepreneur. Their work delves into the intersections of sonic cyberfeminism, post-humanism, generative art, and sustainability to create collective experiences. And currently they are working on an AI-album called "Kunst Kaputt". We talk about this in this new episode.

The space of AI and music is heating up: A couple of labels sued Suno and Udio with the argument that the platforms are infringing copyrights of their artists. The tech companies responded so far with the argument that all their practice is based on "fair use". No solution on the horizon yet. But why create problems when you also can avoid them? A couple of weeks ago LANDR announced its "Fair Trade Program". Musicians can opt-in to their artificial intelligence. Once the AI is ready they will get paid for their participation. Sounds good? Let's have a deeper look into that! I talked with Frédérick Ranger from LANDR for the new episode.