oktober 2010 – Page 3 – Lykle de Vries

Japanese Robots Hope To Destroy The Music Industry As We Know It

This does not bode well for the gossip-channels… What could you gossip about in the case of robots?

Japanese engineers have now developed a fembot that can sing J-pop, calling into stark question the future of human pop singers. According to technology blog Popsci, the robot, an HRP-4, was developed using breath-analysis software and mouth movement observation based on human models. The divabot blinks and opens her mouth appropriately as she sings, mimicking the patterns of a human singer.

The singing is not a track recording, but instead actual singing using a technique called ‘robotic shaped note singing,’ managed by Vocaloid software developed my Yamaha.

“We hope the entertainment industry will be able to make widespread use of robots,” said Masataka Goto, who leads the Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology’s media interaction group. (via Ian Courtney at CelebrityAccess)

Read more at www.hypebot.com

See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/df8i

vk реклама

imeem Founder Dalton Caldwell’s Must-See Talk On The Challenges Facing Music Startups

This was discussed at yesterdays Music and Bits as well. I would argue that music startups still make sense, if they turn to music that has not yet been signed to traditional industry parties. Saves tons of money, opens up a lot of possiblities for (future) sustainability.

Amplify’d from techcrunch.com

Overall, Caldwell’s talk isn’t going to be encouraging for anyone hoping to launch a music startup: at one point early on he says, “Every time a founder does a music startup, a likely-more-successful startup dies”. But Caldwell’s message doesn’t seem to be that launching a music startup is completely impossible. Rather, it’s just incredibly hard, because you have so many things working against you. And he wouldn’t recommend it.

The bottom line for fledgling startups: these record execs need to discover businesses that will generate hundreds of millions of dollars, and they can’t take gambles with a bunch of startups that want to gradually build up a user base and focus on monetization when they (probably never) hit critical mass. They’ve tried that, and it hasn’t worked out for them.

Read more at techcrunch.com

See this Amp at http://bit.ly/bnTRYJ

game on mobile аренда номеров

Yep, Apple Killed The CD Yesterday (via @techcrunch)

The Mac App Store brings Apple one more step closer to an integrated system. Not very many regular users will complain.

Amplify’d from techcrunch.com

When you get your MacBook Air and you open the box, you will find exactly zero optical discs inside. Normally, Apple includes at least one back-up DVD to reinstall OS X and other software if your computer fails. But now, that has been replaced with a super-slim USB stick. This stick, packed in with your manual, is all you need to reinstall your system now.

But that’s only one half of the future.

The other half is a potentially much bigger announcement Apple made today: the Mac App Store. While Apple didn’t give a ton of details yet, it appears that this store will work pretty much just as their App Store does on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. There will be free and paid apps. There will be one-click downloads. There will be automatic updates. All that.

What there won’t be are any optical discs.

Read more at techcrunch.com

See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/df57

pass-cracker