The excellent news is that an album has simply been launched by Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn of Gorillaz, The Conflict, Tori Amos, Hans Zimmer, Pet Store Boys, Jamiroquai, and Yusuf (previously generally known as Cat Stevens), Billy Ocean, and many other musicians apart from, most of them British. The unhealthy information is that it contains no actual music. However the album, titled Is This What We Need?, has been created in hopes of preventing even worse information: the government of the United Kingdom choosing to let artificial-intelligence companies practice their models on copypropered work without a license.
Such a transfer, within the phrases of the professionalject’s chief Ed Newton-Rex, “would hand the life’s work of the nation’s musicians to AI companies, without cost, letting these companies exploit musicians’ work to outcompete them.” As a composer, he naturally has an interest in these matters, and as a “former AI executive,” he presumably has insider knowledge about them as nicely.
“The governmalest’s willingness to agree to those copyproper adjustments exhibits how a lot our work is underneathvalued and that there isn’t any professionaltection for one in all this counattempt’s most important property: music,” Kate Bush writes on her personal internetweb site. “Every monitor on this album features a deserted fileing studio. Doesn’t that silence say all of it?”
As the Guardian’s Dan Milmo reviews, “it’s underneathstood that Kate Bush has fileed one of many dozen tracks in her studio.” These tracks, whose titles add as much as the phrase “The British government should not legalise music theft to benematch AI companies,” aren’t strictly silent: in a personner which may nicely have happy John Cage, they contain a variety of ambient noises, from footsteps to humming machinery to going automobiles to crying infants to imprecisely musical sounds emanating from somethe place within the distance. Whatever its influence on the U.Ok. governmalest’s deliberations, Is This What We Need? (the title Sounds of Silence having presumably been unavailready) might have pioneered a brand new style: protest track without the songs.
You possibly can stream Is This What We Need? on Spotify.
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Based mostly in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and culture. His initiatives embrace the Substack newsletter Books on Cities and the e-book The Statemuch less Metropolis: a Stroll by way of Twenty first-Century Los Angeles. Follow him on the social internetwork formerly generally known as Twitter at @colinmarshall.
