Music and Stuff

This blog contains some of my thougts on music, music production and related topics.  There are also recommendations to tracks and albums that I like. 

Here is also a link to a Spotify playlist containing some of my current favourite tracks.

Björk and Rosalía in collaboration, Peter Gabriel is back! 

Recommended Single: Björk, Rosalía Oral

Maybe an unexpected collaboration, but a very good song.

Recommended Album: Peter Gabriel i/o

You need to be patient if you are a fan of Peter Gabriel. However, if you are, you will eventually be rewarded. i/o is the first studio album with new songs from Gabriel since Up released in 2002. There are of course a number of really good albums in between with new versions, live performances and covers but we have waited for 20 years to hear new original work. The songs on…

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AI and music 

A current discussion among Youtube music creators and others is the use of AI for music creation, and of course also the threat that AI may replace us. It is clear that there are many aspects to analyze (1). 

One use of AI is to create new music for specific artists based on old material. New Beatles songs based on previously recorded, unreleased material has been created by extracting John Lennon's voice from demo recordings and mix with new recordings (2). Fully AI-created songs for artists that are not…

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