AI AND MUSIC FESTIVAL DOCUMENTARY
| This short film guides you through some of the ….. Artificial intelligence and art will shape our future – is the human experience the only one worth expressing? Could you be moved by a piece of art made by a computer? In 2021, a festival held in Spain explored these questions and more through Music created by algorithms that reaches out to the human experience. |
MUSIC ALL AROUND US
| A different take on the subject. Here is a programme filmed in 1979 trying to guess at the future of music and computers. Made by the BBC in the late seventies, this programme has a very science based approach to the subject but it`s very educational and entertaining – which I guess is the very essence of our public broadcaster! |
HOW JAPANESE TECH CHANGED THE WORLD
It hard to fathom what life was like when portable music devices didnt exsist... Its been a long journey … and the nation who made most of that journey possible was Japan. Hand held meant carrying a transistor radio, or a boombox. Certainly not personal. So when the walkman arrived, plus the other copies it influenced, it changed everything. |
THE RISE OF SPOTIFY
| Once upon a time you had record companies, several of them, they controlled the flow of music, until file sharing became feasible enough that you had access to millions of peoples music collections for very little cost. This changed a lot of things, it meant a different sector of business was now a gatekeeper – albeit with no actual gate – an absolute nightmare for the old guard. Along comes someone who figures out its not about ownership, especially when it comes to devices you access digital content on. Stream the music, but make it an easy experience, easier than torrenting. Bingo, spotify comes and steps in front of Apple`s music business model of downloads on an ever expanding itunes site and gives stuff out for free, before getting users to pay for the premium tier. Here`s the lowdown on how and why it happened. |