I Was in a Music Rut. I Blame the Algorithm. I Found a Simple Way to Break Out of It.

I am useless without background music. A writer by day and an avid concertgoer by night, I relied for years on Spotify to ...

How Hardtekk Became the Cursed Soundtrack of Looksmaxxing

Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost ...
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Was Your Favorite Song Written by AI?

Computer music scholars like Örjan Sandred , a professor of composition and founder of Studio FLAT, a research center for ...
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Getting Started with AI and Music

Earn a free on-chain certificate by taking Decrypt U’s exciting AI and Music course. Is AI creative enough to create listenable music? Can a machine learn to be a better composer than a human? Who ...