The Illiac Suite - Music and AI
In 1957 a computer of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign wrote a composition for a string quartet: The Illiac Suite! It was the first time in music history. We have come a long way. The combination artificial intelligence and music is here to stay. We entered a new exciting era of creativity. My name is Dennis Kastrup. I am a journalist from Berlin. And my passion is AI. Let's talk about it. But most of all: Listen to it!
- Update frequency
- every 31 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 23
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
21: AIXchange
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…
20: Andrew Melchior
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, l…
19: Transcribe Music with Klang.io
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 tran…
18: What a year...!
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 hum…
17: Protect Me!
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…
16: "Kunst Kaputt" with Senaida
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 …
15: Fair Trade Program from LANDR
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 wit…
14: Alex Braga
This time I invited the Italian Alex Braga to talk about his view on artificial intelligence and which role it plays in his works. Braga is a musician, a conceptual artist, an inventor, an enterprene…
12: Penemue - AI against Hate Speech in Music
Crazy times in the AI world, again. ChatGPT-4o is making headlines these days and more and more generative AIs are out there, most of them with copyright protected music in their datasets. I had many…
11: SenMixMaster, Music and AI in Africa
We often talk about artificial intelligence and its development. What is new? What is on the horizon and what are the problems? That is exciting, no doubt about it. But we often also lose sight of th…
10: The SXSW Edition
It was that time of the year: The SXSW invited music, film and tech enthusiasts for another edition. Music and Artificial Intelligence was of course also a topic at the festival. I met some really in…
09: "Fairly Trained" datasets!
A few months ago, OpenAI the company behind ChatGPT, reportedly asked the British Parliament to authorize the free use of copyrighted works. Their argument: It is impossible to train artificial intel…
08: The World of Music Tagging and AI with Hazel Savage
In 2018 Hazel Savage started Musiio, wich combines AI technology with specialist music knowledge to solve a range of problems facing catalogue owners. They automate tagging, supercharge search and p…
07: Get cloned and get paid with Voice Swap!
Daniel Stein is a producer and musician in the dubstep and drum and bass scene. He is known there under the name "DJ Fresh". The Brit has released several top ten tracks. When artificial intelligence…
06: Stem separation with Audioshake (Hashtag Beatles)
It was the news of the last weeks: The Beatles published a new song called "Now and Then" which theoretically is not true as George and John unfortunately have already passed away. But it shows in w…
05: The father of "Daddy's Car": Benoit Carré
Music has played with artificial Intelligence since decades but it was not until 2016 when a little song got the attention of the whole world: "Daddy's Car", a song that was composed in the Sony CSL …
04: Text to Music: It is not that easy!
There are many AI models where you can enter text and generate songs. So words should describe the music you want to listen to in the end. But how does an artificial intelligence learn what music sou…
03: Introducing AI Artist "Portrait XO"
In this episode we dive into the realm of the artist Portrait XO. Her album "Wire" was released end of the last year. For that she trained with CJ Carr from the Dadabots an AI on her own voice. What …