This week, Google researchers published a paper describing results from an artificial intelligence (AI) tool built to create music.

The tool, called MusicLM, is not the first AI music tool to launch. But the examples Google provides demonstrate musical creative ability based on a limited set of descriptive words.

AI shows how complex computer systems have been trained to behave in human-like ways.

Tools like ChatGPT can quickly produce, or generate, written documents that compare well with the work by humans. ChatGPT and similar systems require powerful computers to operate complex machine-learning models. The San Francisco-based company OpenAI launched ChatGPT late…….

French pianists, Hervé Billaut and Guillaume Coppola, brought a piano on to a tram in Nantes, as part of the opening of the annual La Folle Journée classical music festival.

They played to passengers all afternoon on Wednesday.

Mr Billaut said that they wanted to bring music to places you don’t expect it: “Perhaps someone, a child, a young person or a pensioner will have a musical shock.”

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“It was always this strange mixture of feeling, ‘OK, there is death somewhere, and there is despair, frustration, whatever, it’s there because we’re human beings’ — and then, next moment, he would be the most silly and joyful person,” she said. “That’s what always made his playing so incredibly touching, because you see the whole range of the human tragedy, and the lightness of life.”

Judging by his recordings, Vogt was a heartfelt soloist, excelling in the Bach-Schubert-Brahms lineage, yet he was arguably at his finest as a chamber musician; even the tone he gleaned from a piano — compassionate, never dom…….

Update 2/1/23: “Create a radio” is seeing wider availability on several YouTube Music accounts we checked today. On Android and iOS, scroll through your feed for the card.

In our brief usage, it’s really quite good and deserves the “Your music tuner” description. The customization page will note when there are “No songs to play” if the filters you applied don’t mix well.

You can save a custom radio to your Library and it will also appear in the “Listen again” carousel. The generated cover art features three artist images, while you cannot change the station name, which is somewhat unwieldy.

Original 12/15/22: Still in testing as part of a limi…….

MANSFIELD, Ohio -The Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival happening July 14-16, 2023, at the old Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, has announced that Limp Bizkit and Slipknot will join the revamped Pantera as headliners this year.

Pantera was announced as the Saturday, July 15, headliner earlier this year. Yesterday, Inkcarceration unveiled a full lineup, with Limp Bizkit headlining Friday, July 14, and Slipknot topping the bill on Sunday, July 16. Dozens of other acts scheduled to perform at the three-day fe…….

Update 2/1/23: “Create a radio” is seeing wider availability on several YouTube Music accounts we checked today. On Android and iOS, scroll through your feed for the card.

In our brief usage, it’s really quite good and deserves the “Your music tuner” description. The customization page will note when there are “No songs to play” if the filters you applied don’t mix well.

You can save a custom radio to your Library and it will also appear in the “Listen again” carousel. The generated cover art features three artist images, while you cannot change the station name, which is somewhat unwieldy.

Original 12/15/22: Still in testing as part of a limi…….

French pianists, Hervé Billaut and Guillaume Coppola, brought a piano on to a tram in Nantes, as part of the opening of the annual La Folle Journée classical music festival.

They played to passengers all afternoon on Wednesday.

Mr Billaut said that they wanted to bring music to places you don’t expect it: “Perhaps someone, a child, a young person or a pensioner will have a musical shock.”

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Trish Toledo, the daughter of an Ecuadorian father and a Guatemalan mother, performs old-school soul tunes at Banc of California Stadium on December 18, 2021, in Los Angeles. Photo: Scott Dudelson/Getty Images

A new generation of Latino artists is reinterpreting old R&B classics and producing new ones in a soul music revival that’s hot on streaming services, YouTube and music venues.

Why it matters: The music, sometimes called modern “souldies” or “brown-eyed soul,” shows the deep, historic influence of Black culture on Latinos.

Details: New artists like the Thee Sacred Souls, Joey Quiñones & Thee Sinseers, Los Yesterdays, and former Kumbia Kings member Frankie …….

French pianists, Hervé Billaut and Guillaume Coppola, brought a piano on to a tram in Nantes, as part of the opening of the annual La Folle Journée classical music festival.

They played to passengers all afternoon on Wednesday.

Mr Billaut said that they wanted to bring music to places you don’t expect it: “Perhaps someone, a child, a young person or a pensioner will have a musical shock.”

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Over the past few months, The New York Times has asked jazz musicians, critics and scholars to answer the question, What would you play a friend to make them fall in love with Duke Ellington? Or Alice Coltrane? We’ve also covered bebop, vocal jazz and the catalogs of Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra.

That’s a lot of listening back. So this month, we decided to explore what’s happening now. Where is jazz today? It’s a good time to be asking. Just a dozen years ago, the music seemed to be having a crisis of self-worth. Where was its center? Could anything guarantee its relevance?

But over the p…….