Introducing Season 3: Creative AI for music
Creative AI may be the most disruptive technology for the music business since the Napster era of piracy.Already in 2023, over 10 different music AI models have been released by independent researchers and big-tech companies like Google and ByteDance, allowing users to generate custom tracks in seconds using a mere text prompt.Hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs are now listed on streaming services.At large, generative AI tools for audio, text, and visual art have picked up tens of mi...
Introducing Season 3: Creative AI for music
Creative AI may be the most disruptive technology for the music business since the Napster era of piracy.Already in 2023, over 10 different music AI models have been released by independent researchers and big-tech companies like Google and ByteDance, allowing users to generate custom tracks in seconds using a mere text prompt.Hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs are now listed on streaming services.At large, generative AI tools for audio, text, and visual art have picked up tens of mi...
The year in review — and why you should join us for Season 3
Hi there! I’m Cherie, the Founder of Water & Music. Hope you are thriving and surviving through these last few weeks of 2022. As the holidays are fast approaching, I wanted to send a personal note reflecting on how far we’ve come as a community in the last year — and sharing why I think now is an especially opportune time to join the Water & Music membership, given the incredible research currently happening behind the scenes.2022 IN REVIEW: From newsletter to networkExactly one year ago, fro...
The year in review — and why you should join us for Season 3
Hi there! I’m Cherie, the Founder of Water & Music. Hope you are thriving and surviving through these last few weeks of 2022. As the holidays are fast approaching, I wanted to send a personal note reflecting on how far we’ve come as a community in the last year — and sharing why I think now is an especially opportune time to join the Water & Music membership, given the incredible research currently happening behind the scenes.2022 IN REVIEW: From newsletter to networkExactly one year ago, fro...
The Water & Music Academy: An experiment in community-driven media education
You can also read this article on our website. One of the most common pieces of feedback we receive from Water & Music members — both in passing and through our regular surveys — is that our community is keen for us to expand into education. There’s no denying that the music industry is changing fast, and many professionals feel that they are struggling to keep up. In our last community-wide survey, our respondents reported feeling overwhelmed at the rapid rate of technological change, and an...
The Water & Music Academy: An experiment in community-driven media education
You can also read this article on our website. One of the most common pieces of feedback we receive from Water & Music members — both in passing and through our regular surveys — is that our community is keen for us to expand into education. There’s no denying that the music industry is changing fast, and many professionals feel that they are struggling to keep up. In our last community-wide survey, our respondents reported feeling overwhelmed at the rapid rate of technological change, and an...
Introducing Season 2: Music and the metaverse
As we’ve covered in previous articles, Web3 was a perfect first topic for fleshing out our emerging collaborative research model and wider structure as a DAO. The decentralized nature of Web3 at large and its surrounding information flows lends itself naturally to a more decentralized peer-to-peer approach to research and knowledge-sharing. Ultimately, we found that the wisdom of crowds provided more nuanced perspective and creative advantages over smaller, more traditional editorial teams wo...
Introducing Season 2: Music and the metaverse
As we’ve covered in previous articles, Web3 was a perfect first topic for fleshing out our emerging collaborative research model and wider structure as a DAO. The decentralized nature of Web3 at large and its surrounding information flows lends itself naturally to a more decentralized peer-to-peer approach to research and knowledge-sharing. Ultimately, we found that the wisdom of crowds provided more nuanced perspective and creative advantages over smaller, more traditional editorial teams wo...
$STREAM Season 1.5: Scaffolding our research in music and Web3
In December 2021, we launched Season 1 of our DAO with our inaugural collaborative report on music and Web3. Our findings drove industry-wide discussions about the most pertinent opportunities and challenges facing the music/Web3 ecosystem, across business models, tech stacks, legal issues, marketing strategies, creative techniques and more. The report also proved the power of DAO infrastructure to break down information silos and pioneer new models of knowledge-sharing and research. Since ou...
$STREAM Season 1.5: Scaffolding our research in music and Web3
In December 2021, we launched Season 1 of our DAO with our inaugural collaborative report on music and Web3. Our findings drove industry-wide discussions about the most pertinent opportunities and challenges facing the music/Web3 ecosystem, across business models, tech stacks, legal issues, marketing strategies, creative techniques and more. The report also proved the power of DAO infrastructure to break down information silos and pioneer new models of knowledge-sharing and research. Since ou...
