Water & Music

Boomy founder/CEO Alex Mitchell joins this episode — recorded just an hour after Boomy launched out of beta! — to talk about the disruptive impact that artificial intelligence will have on music creation and distribution. We unpack why there's arguably no such thing as "A.I.-generated music," the importance of optimizing for creativity rather than for accuracy in music-composition algorithms, what the "win condition" would be for A.I. and music and why tools like Boomy could do to the music industry what Instagram did to photography. At the end, we discuss whether Splice's new research on extracting stems from musical recordings and Apple's reported investment in original podcasts are overrated or underrated.

Show Notes

INTRO/OUTRO MUSIC
"McFlurry" (Instrumental) by Sleaford Mods
Original song: Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube
Music licensed from Lickd - https://lickd.co
Listen and License this track here: https://t.lickd.co/0b16a70c28b54aaab609c4fc88193c06
License ID: 498c21344bcd47379e72f0f740e4465c

FEATURED GUEST
Alex Mitchell
Founder/CEO, Boomy
Boomy launched out of beta on July 19, 2019, just one hour before this episode was recorded.

FULL TRANSCRIPT WITH HYPERLINKS
https://medium.com/@cheriehu42/how-artificial-intelligence-will-do-to-music-what-instagram-did-to-photography-b69268a2d318

Special thanks to Marcus Hahm for help with mixing!
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What is Water & Music?

The fine print of big ideas in music and technology, hosted by Cherie Hu and featuring a curated selection of leaders, innovators, artists and thinkers from across the music business. This is an ad-free audio companion to the eponymous email newsletter.