On a global scale and here in our backyard, the music industry is evolving at a dizzying pace. “Key Changes” is a quick-hit music news roundup.
Songs of Love writes personalized music for kids — but can AI carry the tune?
For nearly 30 years, the nonprofit Songs of Love Foundation has created custom songs for kids with terminal illnesses. Now it has harnessed AI to expand its services to older adults with memory loss.
If AI in music sounds like sci-fi, this Nashville law professor is the expert to explain the latest
AI-powered tools in music-making have proliferated. So have lawsuits brought by record labels and publishing companies. It’s contentious territory that’s still large unregulated, and in many ways, unprecedented.
Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after move by Blackburn
A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.
NashVillager Podcast: Tech’s influence on the classroom
Is generative AI a boon or a burden for education? Plus the local news for August 6, 2024.
With help from AI, Randy Travis got his voice back. Here’s how his first song post-stroke came to be.
With artificial intelligence, country music star Randy Travis has his voice back. In 2013, the Travis was hospitalized with viral cardiomyopathy and later suffered a stroke. He now has aphasia, a condition that limits his ability to speak. It’s why his wife Mary Travis assists him in interviews. It’s also why he hasn’t released new music in over a decade, until now.
NashVillager Podcast: Competing strategies for improving education in Tennessee
How would Mayor O’Connell’s transit proposal affect bike infrastructure in Nashville? Plus your local newscast for May 6, 2024.
AI music isn’t going away. Here are 4 big questions about what’s next.
Tennessee just passed the first U.S. law regulating generative AI in music. But the technology, adept at copying real artists’ voices and styles, is moving too quickly for one law to keep up with.
Nashville tech startup provides new licensing and tracking tools for the AI era
In the age of generative AI, the music business is becoming something much closer to a tech business. Now a new Nashville tech startup called ViNIL has rolled out a digital licensing and tracking service that wouldn’t have been needed just a few years ago.
Tennessee proposal aims to protect musicians from AI voice impersonation
It’s not every day that Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee convenes a who’s who of the state’s music industry. But he did on Wednesday at historic RCA Studio B to announce that Tennessee will be the first state to pursue legislation on artificial intelligence in music.
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