Tuned Global’s clients now have access to Musiio’s AI technology, which, it says, makes music catalogs more searchable for both curators and end users. This news follows Tuned Global’s partnership struck with AI Audio firm Super Hi-Fi in December. Musiio says that its AI can “listen to music at scale, and supercharges the tagging and search capabilities of music catalogs”.
Source: B2B streaming platform Tuned Global teams up with AI music company Musiio for API integration
According to a new US patent granted on Tuesday (March 1) and obtained by MBW, Spotify has developed what it calls a “system and method for breaking artist prediction in a media content environment”. Spotify’s new invention works by determining “one or more early adopters” from its user base and then collecting data from their listening patterns.
Ape Rave Club isn’t an artist you’d normally see on any festival lineup, but this digital primate is debuting on one of the biggest stages in all of dance music: the Tomorrowland mainstage. As the first NFT artist to perform at the world renowned event, Ape Rave Club will capture the attention of the global dance music community with a set to be seen by over half a million fans.
Source: Tomorrowland to Host First Mainstage Performance By NFT Artist
Stereotype or not, there is a growing community of people who use various sensors connected to plants and mushrooms as inspiration for synthesized music. The results range from scatterings of notes in a strange tempo to fully composed ambient music. Uploaded on Bandcamp, YouTube, and especially TikTok, they can rack up millions of views.
Source: Musicians are hooking up synthesizers to plants for new sonic possibilities
Leading up to releases of her original novel, “Run, Rose, Run,” co-written with best-selling author James Patterson, and its companion music album, Dolly Parton is partnering with Fox Entertainment’s Blockchain Creative Labs to launch “Dollyverse,” an audience-centric Web3 experience, at the South by Southwest Conference and Festivals starting next week.
Source: Dolly Parton to Livestream ‘Dollyverse,’ First-Ever SXSW Performance on Blockchain
With NFTs poised to potentially go mainstream in 2022, Hollywood studios, creatives, and stars are increasingly exploring how the blockchain-based tech can help generate content and build audiences. Insider compiled a list of promising NFT companies partnering with entertainment studios, music labels, and creators to capitalize on the digital assets for IP generation, marketing, and more.
Although it was accelerated by the Covid lockdowns of 2020-2021, the notion of the metaverse is getting more popular as we enter a post pandemic era. This is particularly true in the music business, where the earning potential from metaverse projects and associated Web3 categories like NFTs and crypto is getting too significant for most artists and the three major music companies to ignore.
Warner Music Group (WMG) has entered into a partnership with blockchain gaming developer Splinterlands. Described by WMG as a “first-of-its-kind deal”, the partnership will see the two companies collaborate to give select WMG artists opportunities to create and develop play-to-earn (P2E), arcade-style blockchain games.
Source: Warner strikes ‘first-of-its-kind’ deal with blockchain gaming developer Splinterlands
TreeTrunk, a startup, has developed a variation of the NFT-specific protocol known as ERC-721. TreeTrunk has modified the protocol in such a way as to make it easy for an artist to mint a master NFT of her work, then sell derivatives of that NFT to fans—who can in turn sell it to other fans.
Source: Ethereum NFT Protocol TreeTrunk Promises New Royalty Options for Artists – Decrypt
Cash-strapped museums suffering from a drop in visitor numbers and income during the pandemic may have found a lifeline in the form of a new partnership with a tech company and a commercial gallery. Four major Italian museums, including the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, have signed onto an ambitious project that will see them sell editioned digital replicas of priceless masterpieces from their collections as NFTs.