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CorsoDie Zukunft oder das Ende von Musikvideos? Wenn KI die Bilder zu den Songs machtKastrup, Dennis www.deutschlandfunk.de, Corso2025-05-2005 min
Pop Poutine13: Trois-P!Qu'ont en commun Trois-Pistoles, le football en Allemagne, Alan Parsons, Patrick Lagacé et les Dead Obies ? Rien, vraiment rien ! Sauf que... nous en parlons dans le nouvel épisode.#poppoutine #podcast #balado #québec #camilon #troispistoles #deadobies #patricklagacé #musique2025-05-201h 00
Pop Poutine12: Dans le camion avec Rafaël OuelletC'est fait ! Nous avons notre premier invité chez Pop Poutine. Et ce n'est autre que Rafaël Ouellet. Il est un cinéaste, réalisateur, directeur-photo, producteur et monteur. Dans ses films comme « Camion » ou « Arsenault et fils », il raconte des histoires émouvantes sur les Québécois(es). Nous avons parlé avec lui de tout cela et de bien d'autres choses, et nous avons fini par exploser : Il y a finalement eu deux heures. Restez fort! Ne lâchez pas!#poppoutine #podcast #balado #québec #camilon #rafaelouellet #cinemaquebec #cinema #musique2025-04-292h 06
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI22: The EndSome words for no more words...2025-04-2812 min
Pop Poutine11: Un peu partoutAprès une petite pause créative, Dennis et Eric sont de retour, pleins d'énergie. Tellement d'énergie qu'ils se sont plongés dans de nombreux sujets sans savoir où ils allaient finir. Un épisode aussi coloré comme un bouquet de fleurs au printemps.#poppoutine #kraftwerk #radio #podcast #balado #quebec #quota2025-04-0454 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI21: AIXchangeAIXchange wants to connect human artists with the GenAI ecosystem – enabling both to thrive. Their mission is to empower the GenAI music revolution by offering legal, high-quality music training data, ensuring ethical and compliant AI music generation. Sounds interesting and perfect for The Illiac Suite to take a deep dive into that. In this episode I talked to Steffen Holly, Head of Business Development at Fraunhofer Institut. He is part of AIXchange and does the academic research for them.Any feedback? Contact me on my homepage:Dennis KastrupI produced all of "The Illi...2025-03-3152 min
Pop Poutine10: Mixtape de Jean-Marc ValléeDennis et Eric ont été spontanés. Tous deux se sont rencontrés par hasard lors de l'inauguration de l'exposition "Jean-Marc Vallée" et ont décidé : Nous devons absolument parler de cela. Aussitôt dit, aussitôt fait ! Il y a beaucoup à dire sur ce passionné de musique et sur la musique dans ses films. Le rideau se lève sur un nouvel épisode de "Pop Poutine".#poppoutine #jeanmarcvallee #mixtape #podcast #balado #quebec2025-03-0150 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI20: Andrew MelchiorIt is a pleasure to have Andrew Melchior in the new episode of "The Illiac Suite". Andy began as a classically trained pianist and later explored digital music production and internet technologies, leading to a job at EMI Music. His career expanded into photography, digital energy, and augmented reality, eventually working with Magic Leap and renowned artists like Björk and Massive Attack. He played a key role in innovative projects such as Björk Digital, the VR album Vulnicura, and AI-driven music experiences. Since COVID, he has been a freelance artist, working on AI-driven creative projects, including a so...2025-02-2559 min
Pop Poutine09: T'es hot!C'est une période de turbulences. Dennis et Eric doivent maintenir l'équilibre. Cette fois-ci, ils parlent un peu de politique. Mais la politique, c'est aussi de la culture, non? Où sont les limites ? Et pourquoi Justin Trudeau mange-t-il du poulet épicé ? Tout cela et bien plus encore dans ce nouvel épisode !#balado #poppoutine #balado #podcast #quebec #québec #justintrudeau #ericcohen #denniskastrup #hotonesquebec #hotoneschallenge #hotones #hiver 2025-02-0848 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI19: Transcribe Music with Klang.ioVideos now have a standard function that allows us to automatically read what is being said. The subtitles can even be displayed in different languages. The principle is similar when it comes to transcribing sheet music, not necessarily in real time, but relatively quickly after the music has played. The artificial intelligence “klang.io” is responsible for precisely this. I spoke to founder Sebastian Murgul about how he came up with the idea, what the AI can do, what the problems are and who it is actually intended for. All this in the new episode! #artificialintelligence #ai #arti...2025-01-2845 min
Pop Poutine08: Vive le roi Elvis Gratton!Quel épisode ! Nous parlons de tout, vraiment de tout ce qui s'est passé ces dernières semaines : Bye Bye, Julien Elvis Gratton Poulard et le professeur Nick Harrison avec son Yacht Rock. Nous parlons aussi de sexe, oui de sexe, de sexe, de sexe!!! SEXE! Et nous nous sommes attaqués aux influenceurs Lysandre Nadeau, Shina Nova, Enola Bedard, Laurent Dagenais, Jean Philippe et Mike Ward (et son Alpha Spongebob). Quelle folie !2025-01-1155 min
Pop Poutine07: Fo Fo Fo Foeyyyyn!!!!Noël, un accident, un hymne spécial et Les Deuxluxes. Pop Poutine a beaucoup à offrir dans sa dernière édition de l'année. Et quel est le lien entre tout cela et une corne de brume tannante ? Découvrez-le dans ce nouvel épisode !2024-12-2153 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI18: What a year...!2024 was exciting, fascinating, exhausting and grueling all at the same time. It will go down in the history books as the year in which artificial intelligence can write and produce music like us humans. 12 months in which there was much discussion about how artists should be paid for their music in data sets. Some even said that the question should be asked whether they should be paid at all. To discuss all this again, I got my friend Matthias Strobel on the mic. Matthias is the President of MusicTech Germany, the Federal Association for Music Technology. Together we look...2024-12-1952 min
Pop Poutine06: M Pour MontréalC'est le moment de l'année où les musiciens et musiciennes du Québec et des environs sortent de leur trou pour jouer au showcase festival « M Pour Montréal ». Dennis et Eric ont passé des jours à regarder des groupes. Ils ne se souviennent pas vraiment de tout ce qu'ils ont vu, mais pour ce nouvel épisode, ils ont creusé dans leurs souvenirs.2024-11-3048 min
Pop Poutine05: 1987, Jeune pour toujoursAprès une pause de quelques semaines, Eric et Dennis sont de retour. Ce qui a dû être une situation insupportable pour les millions de fans de Pop Poutine a été l'occasion pour eux de regarder enfin le film « 1987 ». C'était un voyage dans leur propre passé pour tous les deux. Pourquoi ? Les réponses dans le nouvel épisode.2024-11-1645 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI17: Protect Me!The struggle is real: Musicians are currently trying to find a way to handle the fact that artificial intelligence companies are scraping their music from the internet to train their models...without paying for it. Rights holder on the other side want to know what music is generated by an AI so that they can proof in the future - when money should flow - which music of their catalogue was used for training purposes. I talked with two people who are currently trying to help these two parties with their programs: Syed Irfan Ali Meerza and his team...2024-11-1229 min
The End#47 Dennis Kastrup - Abschied aus der FerneDer Journalist Dennis Kastrup wandert 2014 der Liebe wegen nach Kanada aus. Einige Jahre später erfährt er, dass einer seiner besten Freunde unheilbar an Krebs erkrankt ist. Da sie sich trotz der Distanz in all den Jahren immer über ihr Leben ausgetauscht haben, beginnt Dennis in der Ferne Sprachnachrichten mit seinem Freund Frank auszutauschen und aufzunehmen. Bis kurz vor seinem Tod. Daraus ist ein Feature entstanden, in dem die Verzweiflung, die Hoffnung und auch die Todesangst seines Freundes und seine eigenen Emotionen festgehalten wurden.
Ein Tondokument auch für den kleinen Sohn seines Freundes - für Enn...2024-10-2455 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI16: "Kunst Kaputt" with SenaidaIn the beginning of September I attended the "New Visions For Music & Sound" Festival in Berlin. As the moderator I led a panel about "Generative AI and Music". That is where me Toronto-born SENAIDA (pronounced “Shuh-nay-duh”). They are a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist-technologist, sound architect, DJ, curator, and creative entrepreneur. Their work delves into the intersections of sonic cyberfeminism, post-humanism, generative art, and sustainability to create collective experiences. And currently they are working on an AI-album called "Kunst Kaputt". We talk about this in this new episode.2024-10-1738 min
Pop Poutine04: Yoo Doo ReeperbahnDennis est encore à Berlin, mais il était aussi à Hambourg où il a visité le festival Reeperbahn et a vu de nombreux groupes québécois au « Canada House », dont Yoo Doo Right. Ce qu'Eric pense de leur musique et quel est le rapport avec le groupe de Krautrock « CAN » et son bassiste Holger Czukay, vous découvrirez dans ce nouvel épisode "Pop Poutine".2024-09-2848 min
Pop Poutine03: Turbo SympatiquePour la première fois, Dennis et Eric ne sont pas d'accord. En effet, tous deux ont grandi de manière très différente : l'un en Allemagne, l'autre au Québec. L'un a adoré « Les Trois Accords », l'autre, cette fois-ci en direct de Berlin, n'en est pas si sûr. Vous découvrirez dans ce nouvel épisode pourquoi ils ont également parlé de Patrick Watson, de Louise Penny, des Backstreet Boys et du label Mothland.2024-09-1448 min
Pop Poutine02: Eux sur "D'EUX"Ils l'ont fait : Dennis et Eric ont écouté l'album de Céline Dion « D'eux ». Et alors ? Que pensent les deux journalistes de l'un des plus grands patrimoines culturels du Québec ? Sont-ils enchantés ? Ou choqué ? Ceci et bien plus encore dans le nouvel épisode de Pop Poutine.2024-08-3144 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI15: Fair Trade Program from LANDRThe space of AI and music is heating up: A couple of labels sued Suno and Udio with the argument that the platforms are infringing copyrights of their artists. The tech companies responded so far with the argument that all their practice is based on "fair use". No solution on the horizon yet. But why create problems when you also can avoid them? A couple of weeks ago LANDR announced its "Fair Trade Program". Musicians can opt-in to their artificial intelligence. Once the AI is ready they will get paid for their participation. Sounds good? Let's have a deeper...2024-08-2624 min
Pop Poutine01: Ça roule ma poule!Tout commence ici et maintenant. Dennis et Eric se présentent et expliquent pourquoi ils ont créé le balado "Pop Poutine" et de quoi ils vont parler à l'avenir. Ils n'avaient pas non plus imaginé qu'ils parleraient de Céline Dion dès le premier épisode. C'est fou! Ça roule ma poule!2024-08-0236 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI14: Alex BragaThis time I invited the Italian Alex Braga to talk about his view on artificial intelligence and which role it plays in his works. Braga is a musician, a conceptual artist, an inventor, an enterpreneur. He has already worked with AI in 2020 for his album Spleen Machine. His new project "Automatic Impermanence" is shown until the end of September at the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone in the AuditoriumArte space. 2024-07-2952 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI13: Delphos creates AI SoundworldsSuno or Udio are everywhere right now. Their users create whole songs with prompts. The fact that the two companies have probably trained on millions of musicians who did not give their consent for using their music does not really seem to bother them. So far no judge has ruled if they are infringing copyrights. But there are also artificial intelligences that take care of the users in the datasets, like for example Delphos. The platform allows musicians to train their own "Soundworld" with their own songs. Each Soundworld has a special style of an artist and other can...2024-06-2032 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI12: Penemue - AI against Hate Speech in MusicCrazy times in the AI world, again. ChatGPT-4o is making headlines these days and more and more generative AIs are out there, most of them with copyright protected music in their datasets. I had many discussions about that online recently. There are tech friendly persons who don't agree with paying artists for the use and others who say that they must be paid. I belong to the second group. Arguments were exchanged, always in a respectful way. But this is not always like that. Hate speech is unfortunately everywhere. Besides politicians, a lot of musicians face it. The s...2024-05-2231 min
NDR Feature BoxLieber Enno!Dein Vater, der Krebs, der Tod und das Leben
Am 6. Mai 2022 ist mein Freund Frank im Alter von 44 Jahren an Speiseröhrenkrebs gestorben. Wir kannten uns seit der 5. Klasse, haben später zusammen Abitur gemacht. Frank zog es nach Freiburg zum Studieren und ich zog nach Berlin. Er wurde Lehrer und ich wanderte als Journalist nach Kanada aus. Unser Kontakt blieb intensiv. Im September 2021 schrieb er mir: "Uff, zwei Geschwüre am Ende der Speiseröhre." Von dem Moment an haben wir unsere regelmäßigen Telefonate aufgezeichnet. So entstand ein Tondokument zwischen Verzweiflung, Hoffnung, Humor und Todesangst. Zentra...2024-05-0754 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI11: SenMixMaster, Music and AI in AfricaWe often talk about artificial intelligence and its development. What is new? What is on the horizon and what are the problems? That is exciting, no doubt about it. But we often also lose sight of the fact that the news is limited to a few continents: America, Europe or Asia. But what is happening in Africa? Companies there are also trying to conquer the market with artificial intelligence. SenMixMaster is one of them. The AI masters music. I spoke to co-founder Boubacar Djiba about his AI and the situation in Africa.Any feedback? Contact me on...2024-04-2434 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI10: The SXSW EditionIt was that time of the year: The SXSW invited music, film and tech enthusiasts for another edition. Music and Artificial Intelligence was of course also a topic at the festival. I met some really interesting people, had some nice conversations and listened to a lot of interesting panels. Listen to the new episode to find out more.Any feedback? Contact me on my homepage:Dennis KastrupI produced all of "The Illiac Suite" myself (with a little help from A.I.):Voices: ElevenLabsImage: Dall-E 2Music of the...2024-03-2529 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI09: "Fairly Trained" datasets!A few months ago, OpenAI the company behind ChatGPT, reportedly asked the British Parliament to authorize the free use of copyrighted works. Their argument: It is impossible to train artificial intelligence without this type of data. The statement sounds like a free pass for copyright infringements until the law clarifies what is really allowed and what is not. The topic is particularly debated in the music industry. This is because pieces of music are used in large datasets to create new songs. Ed Newton-Rex did not want to accept this. Last year, the American left Stability AI - whose...2024-02-2628 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI08: The World of Music Tagging and AI with Hazel SavageIn 2018 Hazel Savage started Musiio, wich combines AI technology with specialist music knowledge to solve a range of problems facing catalogue owners. They automate tagging, supercharge search and provide highly detailed music analysis and reports for customers around the world. In 2022 Soundcloud acquired Musiio with the goal to amplify SoundCloud’s existing music intelligence capabilities and allow the company to further leverage its data to identify what’s next in music trends and talent. I spoke with Hazel about "her" artificial intelligence: What it does? How it works? And why Star Trek was just such an amazing TV Show......2024-01-2638 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI07: Get cloned and get paid with Voice Swap!Daniel Stein is a producer and musician in the dubstep and drum and bass scene. He is known there under the name "DJ Fresh". The Brit has released several top ten tracks. When artificial intelligence appeared on the scene a few years ago, he was worried about the music industry. Together with his partner Nico Pellerin, he came up with the idea for "Voice Swap". There you can officially and legally clone the voice of a known singer. He and Angie Brown, who is in his roster, talked with me about the use of a cloned voice....2023-12-1935 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI06: Stem separation with Audioshake (Hashtag Beatles) It was the news of the last weeks: The Beatles published a new song called "Now and Then" which theoretically is not true as George and John unfortunately have already passed away. But it shows in which direction we are heading in the future. We can create music now that would not exist without the help of artificial intelligence. So how did they do it? Paul and Ringo took an old recording of John Lennon and an AI separated the voice from the piano (and then they also added old demos of George). The technology is called “stem separation”. Audio...2023-11-2140 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI05: The father of "Daddy's Car": Benoit CarréMusic has played with artificial Intelligence since decades but it was not until 2016 when a little song got the attention of the whole world: "Daddy's Car", a song that was composed in the Sony CSL Research Laboratory with the help of the musician Benoit Carré and an AI. Since then a lot has happened, AI is everywhere and Carré started the project "Skygge" in which he also uses artificial intelligence. How he does it and what he thinks about it, find it out in the new episode.Any feedback? Contact me on my homepage: Dennis Ka...2023-10-0346 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI04: Text to Music: It is not that easy!There are many AI models where you can enter text and generate songs. So words should describe the music you want to listen to in the end. But how does an artificial intelligence learn what music sounds like? Metadata must be associated with the songs so that descriptions are assigned. But that's not as easy for music as it is for images, for example. I talked about the difficulties with Paul Zgordan from Mubert and Roman Gebhardt from Cyanite. Any feedback? Contact me on my homepage: Dennis KastrupOr on instagram: The Illiac...2023-08-1530 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI03: Introducing AI Artist "Portrait XO"In this episode we dive into the realm of the artist Portrait XO. Her album "Wire" was released end of the last year. For that she trained with CJ Carr from the Dadabots an AI on her own voice. What came out of this was then each time woven into the songs in different ways. How Portrait XO did that, what her take on AI in general is and what other artists she likes, you will hear it in this new episode of "The Illiac Suite".Thanks to Portrait XO for the nice chat.Contact me...2023-07-2946 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI02: Hits, Hits, Hits! - "It is liberating"!For this episode I did a deep dive into the current status of the A.I. music scene: What is out there? Who is making music with the help of A.I.? And most important: How do they do it? I talked to some of the artists behind the songs and will play their music, among them Max Weisel and the Matt Chu (MelloFlowz). Thanks to Max and Matt for the nice chat.Contact me on my homepage: Dennis KastrupOr on instagram: The Illiac SuiteI produced all of "The Illiac...2023-06-2841 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AI01: Oper AI: First music label signing only Artificial Intelligence artistsIt was just a question of time when the first label for artificial intelligence artists comes up. So here it is: Oper AI! In February 2023 the two Italians Remo De Vico and Jacopo Solari decided to start it as an art project. On this episode I talk with them about how they create music, visuals and characters of Oper AI. And no surprise: All is made with the help of AI. How that sounds you will find out in this episode.Thanks to Remo and Jacopo from Oper AI for the nice talk.Contact me on...2023-06-1536 min
The Illiac Suite - Music and AITrailer: Hello and my initial thoughts about AI musicWho am I? What do I do? What are my thoughts about AI and music and what to expect in this podcast. Find out in this first trailer!Credits:Underlaying Music: Mubert...and check out my agency Wicked Artists! 2023-06-0803 min
Macher*innen aus der Musikbranche | REDFIELD PodcastR#91 mit Matthias Strobel, Gründer MusicTech Germany
Im Kindesalter durchlief er die musikalische Ausbildung der Regensburger Domspatzen, einem der ältesten und bekanntesten Chöre der Welt. Das strenge Lernen sorgte aber schließlich dafür, dass Matthias Strobel für immer Abstand vom Gesang und Klavierspiel nahm. Trotzdem blieb er der Musik – wenn auch in anderer Form - treu.
Nach einer Ausbildung und Beschäftigung beim ZDF beteiligte sich Matthias Strobel 2012 beim Start-Up Nagual Sounds. Mithilfe von Technologie wollten die Entwickler Musik nur durch Körperbewegungen entstehen lassen. Das Start-Up wurde zwar mit Lob überschüttet, am Ende fehlten die Investorengelder.
Danach leitete Str...2021-11-071h 00
The Mind Takeaway PodcastEpisode 25 - Music and Technology with Dennis KastrupOur guest is Dennis Kastrup, a journalist based in Berlin and Montréal and working for German public radio. In the past 20 years, he has conducted more than 1000 interviews with musicians and specialised in new technologies, especially in music (VR/AR, robotics, wearables, artificial intelligence, etc). Dennis was also part of the theatre play “Post Humains” which was presented in Québec and Berlin.
You can connect and find out more about his work here:
www.denniskastrup.de
https://twitter.com/cyborgparade
https://www.instagram.com/momentsofchange/
We talk about...2020-03-0137 min