Dennis Kastrup
Dennis is a radio journalist in the music business since over 20 years. He has conducted over 1000 interviews with artists from all over the world and works for major public radio stations in Germany and Canada. His focus these days is on “music and technology” – Artficial Intelligence, Robotics, Wearables, VR/AR, Prosthetics and so on. He produces the podcast “The Illiac Suite - Music And Artificial Intelligence”. This interest made him also start „Wicked Artists“: a booking agency for creative tech and new media art.
Appears in 18 Episodes
17: 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...
16: "Kunst Kaputt" with Senaida
In 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 i...
15: Fair Trade Program from LANDR
The 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 tec...
14: Alex Braga
This 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 ar...
13: Delphos creates AI Soundworlds
Suno 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 ...
12: Penemue - AI against Hate Speech in Music
Crazy 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 mus...
11: SenMixMaster, Music and AI in Africa
We 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. Bu...
10: The SXSW Edition
It 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 th...
09: "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 impo...
08: The World of Music Tagging and AI with Hazel Savage
In 2018 Hazel Savage started Musiio, wich combines AI technology with specialist music knowledge to solve a range of problems facing catalogue owners. They automate t...
07: 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 trac...
06: 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 alread...
05: The father of "Daddy's Car": Benoit Carré
Music 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 th...
04: 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 i...
03: 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 Dadabo...
02: 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: H...
01: Oper AI: First music label signing only Artificial Intelligence artists
It 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 Vic...
Trailer: Hello and my initial thoughts about AI music
Who 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......
