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Over my 15-year career as a music critic, I’ve devoted thousands of hours to the art of translating music, imperfectly, into words. Now, thanks to an AI tool from Google called MusicLM, I can translate words, imperfectly, into music.
The results can be startling.
For fun, I tried feeding in some prompts from Pitchfork’s album reviews. Here are just a few words that a writer recently used to describe a song: “arpeggiated synths and light-up dancefloor grooves.” Simple, right? Effective. You can a…
3 months ago
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Read Jayson Greene’s review of the album.
almost 2 years ago
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New projects by Google and Sony use machine-learning technology to create music that essentially writes itself. Should we be scared—or excited?
over 6 years ago
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Jayson Greene on his struggle with an idiosyncratic, anxiety-based condition called psychomotor agitation-- which causes involuntary physical tics-- and how it affects his relationship with music on a daily basis.
over 10 years ago
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As classical music bleeds into indie culture at an increasing rate-- think Sufjan Stevens, Jonny Greenwood, Nico Muhly, Joanna Newsom-- a fascinating new hybrid is being made.
almost 12 years ago
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