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Globe and Mail
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Globe and Mail
'The Grammys' for AI Music? Entries Open for Groundbreaking Song Contest from the Fanvue World AI Creator Awards - as Millions of Creators Make Music with AI
LONDON, July 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The world's 'most inclusive' music awards has just launched - where creators using AI to make music will compete for $10k in prizes and the inaugural award. The Future Sound Awards is the latest installment from the Fanvue World AI Creator Awards - in partnership with leading music platforms SoundCloud, and TwoShot. It's the first venture into AI Music for the Fanvue World AI Creator Awards - the team behind last year's Miss AI awards phenomenon. Fanvue itself is one of the fastest-growing creator platforms in the world, with over 7m users, and 180,000 creators including musicians, sports stars, and AI Influencers. Over 60m people used AI to create music in 2024, according to an IMS report* - and the Future Sound Awards has been launched to recognise the achievements of creators, who will compete for $10k in prizes and the inaugural award. The organisers have assembled a stellar line-up of judges including Music Producer Jeff Nang (Disney, Universal, Sony), Butterbro - the German sensation who hit the headlines for producing the first AI generated song to enter the German music charts, TwoShot Founder and Music Producer making AI for creatives, Tobi Akinyemi, and Head of AI at Fanvue & AI Music Aficionado, Narcis Marincat. The judges will bring their wealth of expertise to assess entries into the Future Sound Awards on inspiration, process, vocals, lyrics, beat, and authenticity - combined with listens on a dedicated chart, powered by SoundCloud. Narcis Marincat, Head of AI at Fanvue & AI Music Aficionado, commented: "Miss AI was a global success but we had big ambitions to bring the WAICAs to the music sector. AI is having a massive impact on music and the wider creative industries, and our mission at Fanvue is to power the Creator-AI Economy by enabling creators to scale and grow their income using AI tools on our platform. In partnership with SoundCloud and TwoShot, we wanted to demonstrate how creators can responsibly leverage AI to enhance the creative process in music creation. Like all fast-growing industries that are powered by AI, an awards programme is a chance to celebrate talent and also raise standards. It doesn't matter if you're a producer, an artist, or never picked up an instrument before - anyone can enter the Future Sound Awards. It's a true celebration of the democratisation of music and we have big ambitions to grow the awards into the Grammys of the AI Music space.' AI is having a transformative impact on the music sector - over 60% of artists used some form of the tech to create music in the past 12 months, while the wider AI Music industry will soar to over $3B by 2028. Artists including David Guetta, Grimes, Timbaland and Holly Herndon have all used AI to create music - part of a movement demonstrating responsible use of AI in the music industry. TwoShot is already trusted by thousands of artists, and is committed to protecting musicians through its pioneering licensing technology in partnership with Audible Magic. The Future Sound Awards shares this vision - to highlight the positive impact of AI in music. Creators can produce their track for free using the platform and submit to the Future Sound Awards chart, which is powered by global audio streaming platform, SoundCloud. Tobi Akinyemi, TwoShot Founder and Music Producer making AI for creatives, commented: 'A new wave of musicians has been born with the rise of AI-powered creation tools. Digital tools like Fruity Loops unlocked tens of millions of musicians; AI will unlock hundreds of millions - if not billions. We're incredibly proud and excited to spotlight artists pushing the boundaries of music creation.' AI is having a profound impact on the music sector, and Music Producer, Jeff Nang, who has worked with Sony, Universal and Disney, knows the positive impact AI can have in the music creation process having experimented with different tools to enhance his creative work. Nang commented: 'AI has smashed through the old creative barriers - now every music creator can express themselves without limits. I've been using Controlla Voice to build full choirs from just my voice—something that used to take a whole team, time, and budget. Now it's all at my fingertips. I'm hyped to hear what artists come up with using these new tools. This is the future of music… let's have fun with it!' Music creator, Butterbro, whose AI-generated track broke records as the first AI track to land in the German charts is also on the judging panel for the Future Sound Awards. Butterbro commented: 'AI lets artists shape and release ideas that might otherwise never leave their notebooks. When an AI-generated track I worked on entered the official German charts, it became clear just how powerful these tools can be. I see AI both as a tool and as a collaborator, depending on how it's used - with the human touch remaining at the core. The Future Sound Awards are a powerful sign of just how far this movement has come - and where it's heading.' Creators can enter the Future Sound Awards using TwoShot, before submitting to the dedicated chart, powered by SoundCloud. To create and submit, visit: Notes to Editors For more information please contact pressoffice@ References * * About the Fanvue World AI Creator Awards (WAICAs) The Fanvue World AI Creator Awards were launched in 2024 to recognise the achievements of creators using AI - from fashion, to AI influencers and music - around the world. Last year saw the launch of the inaugural AI Woman of the Year (formerly Miss A) contest which reached millions of people around the world and is set to return bigger, better and more culturally relevant in 2025. About Fanvue Fanvue is powering the Creator-AI Economy - providing thousands of creators with AI tools to scale their brand and income. About TwoShot TwoShot is a music sampling platform unlocking the next billion musicians with traceable AI. TwoShot gives music producers the tools to create and remix music by singing or describing a melody. About SoundCloud SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40+ million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud. Future Sound Awards entry guidelines Entries to the Future Sound Awards open on Tuesday 1st July and close on Tuesday 22nd July 2025 Anyone over the age of 18 can enter the awards by creating a track on the TwoShot and following the steps to submit to the Future Sound Awards, Tracks created using other platforms will not be accepted Any genre of music and any language is permitted into the awards Copyrighted material is not accepted. All entries will be checked and verified through TwoShot and Audible Magic, if any entries are found to be using copyrighted music they will be removed and disqualified from the competition Judging criteria Entries will be judged across a set of criteria including inspiration, process, vocals, lyrics, beat, and authenticity - combined with listens on a dedicated chart, powered by SoundCloud. Each section will be awarded a maximum of 10 points, giving all entrants a total score. Prizes $10,000 worth of prizes are up for grabs in the first Future Sound Awards which will be awarded as follows: First place - $7,000 Second place (runner up) - $1,500 Third place (runner up) - $1,500 A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Reply AI Music Contest - Announced the Winner of the First International Competition Connecting AI Technologies With Music and Live Performances
TURIN, Italy, July 07, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reply, an international group specialized in the creation of new business models enabled by Artificial Intelligence, is proud to announce the winner of the first edition of the Reply AI Music Contest —an international competition, organized in collaboration with the Kappa FuturFestival, aimed at creatives from around the world interested in exploring new ways to combine music, visuals, and AI technologies within live performances. The winner is the production 'Sinvocea' by DeLaurentis, a DJ and producer based in Paris, who incorporated AI into her electronic compositions, utilising AI-generated vocals and real-time processing. A pioneer in the use of AI in music since 2018, DeLaurentis incorporated these tools into her creative process: treating technology as an extension of her voice, she has developed a unique approach where real-time vocal improvisation generates visual shapes and colours, creating a dynamic dialogue between human and machine. Her latest work, Sinvocea, is a visual instrument that explores the intersection of sound and image, transforming performances into ephemeral moments of research and expression. By using AI to "draw" with her voice, she expands the boundaries of live performance and synesthetic creativity. The contest, centred on the theme "Experience of a Beat", challenged artists to use AI to create immersive performances blending sound, visual art, and audience interaction. The jury — composed of Albertino, Tini Gessler, Nicola Gotti, Fleur Shore, Jacopo Di Cera, DJ Tennis, Damir Ivic, Tessa Nijdam, Heleen Blanken, Ali Demirel, Ale Lippi, Auronda Scalera & Alfredo Cramerotti, Annibale Siconolfi, and Seth Troxler — reviewed over 300 live performance projects from around the world to select five finalists. The finalists were, I AM JAS, from Barcelona, is a DJ whose sets blend Afrobeat, techno, and experimental sound techniques, with an interest in integrating AI into live mixing; Helang, a DJ and producer based in New York, who combines techno and trance influences with a focus on digital identity and technology; Marco Puccini, a visual artist from Milan, who works with digital media and scenography, using AI tools to build responsive visual environments for live settings and the collective MIRROW, based in Turin, with their project that explores the interaction between algorithmic music generation and visual output in a live performance context These finalists showcased their AI-integrated live sets on the LAB stage at Kappa FuturFestival, performing on Friday and Saturday from 14:00 to 15:00, with the winner announced at the close of Saturday's event. "I am very proud and thankful for the recognition. I used AI to produce music for many years and when the opportunity to use AI in real-time came, I took the chance to interact with the AI live, and it became a conversation between my voice and AI generated visuals, which are based on the pitch, tone, volume, speed and vibrato of the sounds I generate. As the equipment is quite complex and fragile, I tend to perform in studios, so this was the first time I performed Sinvocea on stage, in a DJ booth, and to be able to do it at Kappa FuturFestival was incredible" commented DeLaurentis, the winner of the 2025 AIMC. "The winner and all the finalists of the Reply AI Music Contest demonstrate how Artificial Intelligence can unlock entirely new dimensions of musical expression—innovative, immersive, and deeply emotional—while preserving the human essence" said Filippo Rizzante, CTO of Reply. "Generative algorithms are reshaping the creative landscape, not only in what we produce—images, videos, sound—but in how we create. In music, we see live performances as an area with great potential from which hybrid forms will emerge, combining audio with dynamic visual elements. The Reply AI Music Contest serves as a platform to spotlight this evolution, giving emerging talents the chance to explore frontier technologies and build the skills shaping the future of music and live performance." At Kappa FuturFestival, we've always embraced innovation and creative experimentation. Partnering with Reply to host the AI Music Contest was a natural extension of our mission to push the boundaries of live performance. This collaboration allowed us to create a unique platform where technology meets artistry, demonstrating how AI can amplify emotional depth and reshape the way audiences experience music." Gianluca Brignone, Partner and Chief Innovation Officer at Kappa FuturFestival. The AI Music Contest is part of the broader Reply Challenges, a program comprising technological and creative competitions that reflect Reply's commitment to developing innovative educational models that engage with the younger generation. The Reply Challenges community now has over 150,000 participants worldwide. To see more about the contest, visit aimc: ReplyReply [EXM, STAR: REY, ISIN: IT0005282865] specialises in the design and implementation of solutions based on new communication channels and digital media. Reply is a network of highly specialised companies supporting key European industrial groups operating in the telecom and media, industry and services, banking, insurance and public administration sectors in the definition and development of business models enabled for the new paradigms of big data, cloud computing, digital media and the Internet of Things. Reply services include: Consulting, System Integration and Digital Services. 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The National
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The National
Who's profiting from AI-generated music?
About the piece by Saeed Saeed AI-generated band Velvet Sundown are a Spotify hit, but is the music any good? (July 2): The writer left out a key point. These AI bands aren't just about experimentation, they're a business model. Streaming models benefit when algorithm driven "safe" music fills up playlists, because it's cheap to make and easy to push. Meanwhile music of real artists gets buried. It's worth asking who actually profits when the human element gets stripped away. Hint: the platforms that host them. Karam Touba, Dubai Yes, AI can make amazing music, if the person or people giving it the prompts are any good. Margaret Reynolds, Muscat, Oman AI music has a parallel in AI-generated photography. Why do people need to generate an image of a person suffering rather than use the thousands of images taken by photojournalists in the field every single day. Those are real people risking their lives to bring us real information. These are machine generated and inauthentic. There really is no comparison. Brenda Davies, Hoi An, Vietnam The kidnapping of Alawite women must stop With regard to Nada Maucourant Atallah and Adla Massoud's report 'Get the money fast if you want her alive': Syria's Alawite women and girls disappear in abductions (July 1): These scenes are unbearably brutal. How can those who call themselves world leaders speak of humanity, yet offer offenders international protection and recognition? Norma L, Cincinnati, US Gaza ceasefire still too far in the distance In reference to Mohamad Ali Harisi's report Hamas reviews Gaza ceasefire proposal as Netanyahu vows 'it's over' for group (July 2): For the Hamas spokesperson Mahmoud Taha to say that US is not serious about ending the Gaza war is odd as it is not a US problem at all. I am concerned about the US economy, US debt and the size of the Pentagon. Frederice Klinge, Hamburg, Germany Hamas is clearly useless as a governing body. It doesn't care about Gaza at all and is perfectly alright with continuing the killings of their own people, with peace still too far away on the horizon. Ali Faisal, Inverness, Scotland Jamie Lucas, London, UK
Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Timbaland's New Artist Is Young, Photogenic — and Not Human
Legendary producer Timbaland has taken his fervent embrace of AI music production to a new level, launching a new AI entertainment company, Stage Zero — and an AI-generated 'artist,' TaTa, who will be dropping a debut single soon. Timbaland, who co-founded the company with his current creative partner, Zayd Portillo, and film producer Rocky Mudaliar, tells Rolling Stone he's had the idea for the venture since he began making music with the generative AI platform Suno last year. 'I saw the path,' he says, 'but I had to wait till everything caught up.' TaTa is intended to be the first of many personas launched by the company, and the co-founders have dreams of the characters becoming virtual influencers and even starring in movies and TV shows. 'Ultimately what Tim's here to do is to pioneer a new genre of music — A-pop, artificial pop,' says Mudaliar, who originally met with Timbaland to discuss a documentary on his career. TaTa will maintain a social media presence, with music videos generated by various AI video tools. More from Rolling Stone Timbaland's AI Reinvention: 'God Presented This Tool to Me' AI Music Is More Realistic Than Ever: Meet Suno's New Model Timbaland Embraces AI Music Production, Announces Partnership with Start-Up Suno TaTa and other potential artists from the company will have their music created via a collaborative process between human creators and the AI music platform Suno. (Timbaland is a creative adviser to that company, but Stage Zero is entirely independent of Suno.) Timbaland and Portillo have developed a workflow where they upload Timbaland demos created by conventional means to the platform, have Suno extrapolate upon them, and then insert human-written lyrics. TaTa's voice first appeared a Suno generation that caught Timbaland's ear: 'It came to a point where I'm like, 'Yo, this voice, it's amazing,'' the producer says. He's able to capture and reuse that specific voice via the platform's Personas feature, introduced last October. 'We have these stacks of music that needed to be finished,' Portillo says. 'And then it just so happened that the TaTa ones were just getting finished faster. There was just something about those songs that were just like. 'Man, this just flows.'' Stage Zero arrives as the music industry and artists continue to wage legal and cultural war against AI music tools. Major labels have filed massive lawsuits against Suno and competitor Udio over their use of copyrighted material in training data, although recent reports suggest settlement talks are underway. Artists including Billie Eilish and Stevie Wonder have signed open letters denouncing AI as a threat to human creativity. Timbaland and Portillo have suggested the backlash will die down, and Mudaliar agrees. 'It's gonna be a bit of a battle,' he says, 'but it's not going anywhere…. We were thinking about the example of the influencer itself and how ridiculous that might've sounded 10 years ago, where we're like, 'Nah, there's no way YouTubers can be bigger than actors.' And now they're the biggest stars in the world.' Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
