Bo Vibe

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AI Music & Simulacrum
There's a track doing the rounds online. It sounds like a lost Radiohead B-side, that specific cocktail of melancholy arpeggios, «Thom Yorke»…
Generative AI and Creativity
I'm speed racer and I drive real fastHe's speed racer and he drives real fastI drive real fast, I'm gonna lastI'm a…
AI Music 2025
The Synthetic Symphony - Market Report Get Embed Code The Synthetic Symphony A 2025 Market Analysis: How generative AI restructured the global…
MusicTech 2026 - Crossroads
Key Takeaways AI has moved from experimental to existential in the music industry.Licensing, not litigation, is now the dominant strategy for labels…
Sam Altman - OpenAI
On 11/11, 2025, the Munich Regional Court handed a judicial victory to the music community with a milestone ruling that sent shockwaves…
Ai artists
Art has always been under the influence by Artifice, in all senses of the word:  as craftsmanship, as chicanery, and as sleight…
music and Web3
How to be an Artist in a Web3 World Web3, with its decentralized concepts and focus on creator ownership, has the potential…
Content wars
We are in the midst of a war over content. In my days as an SEO specialist, «Content is King» was the …
record company executives
For close to a century, the music industry operated under a carefully controlled model where record labels held absolute power over music…
The algorithms of music promotion.
Discovery Engine And Trends I have a confession to make, when I realized that rock stardom wasn’t in the stars for me, I…
AI and live music
With all the noise surrounding Generative-AI, it is easy to miss the other contributions Artificial Intelligence are making to the music industry.…
physical music formats
Why are physical music formats sales (vinyl, CDs and cassette tapes) increasing, who is buying, and why and how to invest in the physical?
AI and Creativity
The music industry is at a crossroads, and as in the legend of bluesman Robert Johnson, the deal is to sell or…
Music NFTs
Whether your reaction to the term »Music NFT» is WTF? or LOL! This introduction will hopefully clarify a few aspects of the…
AI in the music industry
All the noise around music and AI is around Generative AI, for good reason, but it is easy to overlook the tremendous…
2025 in MusicTech
When I was learning the guitar by mishearing guitar riffs and chord progressions and watching the occasional VHS instructional video, Gen-AI, Blockchain, Web3…
consequences of streaming fraud
The music industry has never been short of semi-legal and illegal schemes and shady operators. Every aspect and every era of the…
Interactive Album Experiences
The concept of interactive album experiences, I would argue, was born out of the necessity to make the CD a more attractive…
AI tools for musicians
Much has been said, written, and certainly moaned about AI and music, including in these pages! Let’s look at how to use…
Ai assisted songwriting
Unless you have lived under a rock with no WiFi connection and cell phone coverage, you are aware of the impact AI…
spatial audio
At notefornote an exercise that we constantly do is to contemplate the next steps for technology in the music industry. General audio…
Deterritorializing sound - Deleuze & Guattari
Parental Advisory; this post may contain academic content!To try and understand the changes that affect artists in the music industry, I’ll try…
Spotify Discovery Mode
Can artists pay their way to more visibility and status on digital platforms? We’re not talking about paid marketing but features like…
Future Beethoven
Patronage has been a driving force behind musical creativity and innovation throughout history, ensuring that artists historically have been free to focus…
music promotion platforms
As an independent artist, a recurring question is, where do I publish, post, and promote my music? It is the most essential…
AI and Music
In the Sci-Fi movies of old us humans were regularly subject to being probed and analyzed by the aliens. Today, this job…
The death of the rock star
There was a time when rock stars roamed the earth. These were larger-than-life characters, semi-human mythical figures - legends. General laws, physical…
band in the metaverse
How musicians can face the challenges of AI, The Metaverse etc. and create new income streams.
ai music generation
The music industry has, historically, had an ambiguous relationship with technology.  Ultimately, though, the industry has ended up capitalizing on the very…
the Napster story
Before the new millennium, the world of online file-sharing was somewhat of a wasteland. A new technology, 'MPEG 1 level3 Codec(MP3 for…
Bo Vibe, Author at notefornote