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‘From impossible to merely difficult’: AI collaborates with a vintage 1980s musical gadget

What happens when you mix modern AI with a piece of vintage technology and the musical stylings of a very… Read More

Amazon’s new holiday ad featuring a singing janitor strikes similar tune to ‘America’s Got Talent’ winner

Dreams apparently do come true, for more than one singing janitor. Amazon’s new holiday ad, titled “Midnight Opus,” tells the… Read More

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Podcast: New Starbucks CEO’s supercommute, SeaTac cyberattack, more on AI music

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we revisit the controversy over Starbucks’ hybrid work policy for its new CEO, Brian… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire’s quest for an AI theme song opened our ears to the debate rattling the music industry

For a while now, we’ve been doing an occasional GeekWire Podcast segment called “My AI,” about the latest AI tools… Read More

Rap legend Sir Mix-A-Lot mixes it up at Black Tech Night with talk of AI, music gadgets and more

“I like large language models and I cannot lie …” Legendary Seattle rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot probably isn’t ready to sub… Read More

Legislation would honor Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture as a national museum ‘of great importance’

Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) is seeking a national designation through a bill introduced in Congress that would honor… Read More

Hot number at the GeekWire Awards: Watch ‘The Drunken Tenor’ light up tech from a bygone era

For the sake of the innovators in the crowd at Thursday night’s GeekWire Awards, let’s hope their products and services… Read More

AI startup’s new tool creates music for video footage without requiring text prompts

Another startup has added a new wrinkle to the growing ways artificial intelligence is affecting content creation — this time… Read More

Seattle’s Soundry AI creates text-to-sample generator to help prompt enhanced music creation

The news: Seattle-based Soundry AI, a platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to help musicians create samples for songs, is… Read More

Meet Ramberto Torruella, a former Navy submarine officer who is now CTO at famed radio station KEXP

As a teenager growing up in northern Virginia in the late 1980s, budding saxophonist and composer Ramberto Torruella faced an… Read More

Music-licensing startup Audiosocket hits play on effort to get more digital creators using its products

TikTok videos posted by Charli D’Amelio, Miss Universe, and the Philadelphia Eagles are quite different from one another, but they share something in common… Read More

Amazon pulls the plug on Amp, the live-audio app it launched last year to ‘reimagine radio’

Amazon is pulling the plug on Amp, the audio app it launched last year to let users DJ their own… Read More

On the record: New vinyl Hi-Fi lounge in Seattle skips the algorithm and gets back to music basics

The term “Seattle sound” often refers to the heyday of grunge music in the city. But the people behind a… Read More

Paul Allen estate donates thousands of rare music, film and sci-fi artifacts to Seattle’s MoPOP

Thousands of one-of-a-kind artifacts from Paul Allen’s collection, spanning decades of cultural relevance, are headed to Seattle’s Museum of Pop… Read More

Musical astronauts will bring a show that’s completely out of this world to Seattle

Astronauts have been making music in orbit for almost 60 years, but at least some of the members of a… Read More

Soundbites on AI: Seattle music vets share concern and enthusiasm for how tech might impact art

During a recent appearance on Conan O’Brien’s podcast, Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan offered a gloomy prediction for the… Read More

He sang about life as ChatGPT, but this opera pro needed his human creativity to fix AI’s lyrics

When he took the stage last week at the GeekWire Awards as the human embodiment of ChatGPT, accomplished singer Robert… Read More

Band that took shot at ‘local villain’ Jeff Bezos during Seattle hockey game releases song

Three weeks after the Seattle band Who Is She? played during intermission of a Seattle Kraken game at Climate Pledge… Read More

Band says it’s ‘not welcome back’ at Seattle arena; NHL team insists song lampooning Bezos isn’t why

A Seattle punk-pop group that played this week as the “house band” between periods at a Seattle Kraken game at… Read More

Video game fans, be Calm: Xbox partners with relaxation app to offer immersive soundscapes

If you use video games to relax or relieve stress, a new collaboration between Microsoft Xbox and Calm, a leading… Read More

To die for! Direct-to-consumer casket company lives to see its product in a Taylor Swift video

Any startup would die for the chance to have their product show up in a Taylor Swift music video. That’s… Read More

Mapping its 25-year history, Seattle band Death Cab for Cutie uses geotagging to unlock new song

Death Cab for Cutie has logged a lot of miles during a 25-year span as a band. A lot of… Read More

AI thrilled the video star: Seattle musician uses unique tech to generate imagery for his song

Someone once famously said that “video killed the radio star.” Forty-one years after that song helped ironically launch MTV, the… Read More

Rock on(line)! Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture building digital ‘vault’ for 80,000 collection items

The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle has more than 80,000 pieces in its permanent collection, comprised of such artifacts… Read More

Amazon out to ‘reimagine radio’ with new app Amp which lets users DJ their own shows

Amazon is tuning into the radio business — or, a 2022 version of radio. The company revealed a new app called… Read More

Code.org bands together with Coldplay to get kids dancing and coding via #codeplay contest

Seattle based computer education nonprofit Code.org is teaming with the British rock band Coldplay for a contest aimed at inspiring… Read More

Changing the tune on dating apps: Tech vet wants to connect people through their taste in music

Remember making a mix tape for someone you were dating? What if the mix tape — or your musical taste… Read More

Amazon doesn’t rock, artists and others say, in call to reject palm-scanning tech at Red Rocks venue

“Put your hands in the air, wave ’em like you just don’t care!” someone said, somewhere, once. But musicians and… Read More

Ciara at the GeekWire Summit: Entertainer and entrepreneur on music, business and having impact

In talking about the decision to “Level Up,” both in moving outside of her comfort zone and in striking out… Read More

Amazon’s ‘Prime Day Show’ will feature Billie Eilish, H.E.R. and Kid Cudi in streaming musical event

Amazon is bringing out more star power to promote this year’s Prime Day shopping event. The company announced Thursday that… Read More