Spotify has negotiated new recorded music and music publishing licensing agreements with and Universal Music Group (UMG), which will enable the streaming service to launch a new AI-powered tool allowing users to create covers and remixes of their songs from participating artists and songwriters. The companies said in a statement that the new tool will "open up additional revenue streams and new ways to drive discovery." Royalties generated by the new scheme will add up to what artists and songwr...

Music tech startup Tamber has officially launched its sonic intelligence-powered suite of creative tools designed to work alongside artists as they create. Tamber's Founder and CEO Zoe Wrenn said the platform has been designed to operate within the creative process itself, helping musicians translate abstract ideas, such as from language, emotion, colour, texture, taste, gesture, and place, into sound in real time.

Tamber's Zoe Wrenn

“I built Tamber because I was sick of watching the music in...

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