FEATURE Adobe’s New Firefly Can Create ‘Custom, Fully-Licensed’ AI Soundtracks For Video Music Business Worldwide: Daniel Tencer It seems every tech company in the world wants to get in on the AI-generated music craze. Just several days ago, we learned that ChatGPT and Sora maker OpenAI is planning to enter the generative AI music space,… Read more »
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Six Community Impact Grants Awarded at the IU Jacobs School of Music
The IU Jacobs School of Music is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025-26 Community Impact Grants! The program is designed to support innovative ideas in performance or research with projects that are collaborative in nature and embedded in the Bloomington community. Now in its fourth year, the grants are funded by donors and… Read more »
WEEKLY DIGEST: AI and manuscript analysis, musicians concentrate better than others, music and dementia, CelloBello goes to Chamber Music America, and more.
FEATURE Can AI Decipher a Manuscript Better than You? Early Music America: Kivie Cahn-Lipman A musician partners with artificial intelligence to solve thorny textual problems. Despite more than a few negative impressions, ‘the process of exploring early-music topics with ChatGPT opened my eyes to its potential as a valuable research tool’ RESEARCH AND OPINION Study… Read more »
Entrepreneurs of the Month: Nikki and Kaitlin Pet Bring Classical Music to Life with AI and Animation
The OECD is thrilled to feature embedded entrepreneur Nikki Pet and her sister Kaitlin Pet as our October Entrepreneurs of the Month! A clarinetist and multimedia artist, Nikki is developing innovative projects throughout the year with mentorship from the OECD, IU Innovates, and other collaborators across IU Bloomington. Her creative work focuses on using animation to visually… Read more »
WEEKLY DIGEST: Public Radio cuts and classical music, AI will change how we listen, JSoM’s Danqi Zeng wins international Bach competition, Josh Bell is now MBE, and more
FEATURE Public Radio Cuts Could Silence Classical Music in America The Washington Post: Michael Andor Brodeur Back in July, the Trump administration clawed back some $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting, effectively shuttering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which for nearly 60 years appropriated federal funds to organizations such as PBS, NPR and other… Read more »
Weekly Digest: Modern Music Ruined?, people with ADHD may be more creative, Cristian Macelaru leads the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Taylor Swift’s marketing prowess, and more.
FEATURE Did a Single Generation Ruin Modern Music for Everyone Else? NY Times: Joshua Barone The avant-garde works that emerged from World War II continue to influence how audiences view contemporary music decades later. Why, in the popular imagination, does this style of iconoclastic avant-gardism endure as contemporary music writ large? Especially when the music… Read more »
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FEATURE TikTok Partners With London’s Southbank Centre to Launch New Classical Music Initiative The Violin Channel The Southbank Centre and TikTok have announced the launch of Crescendo, a new six-month program to support and promote emerging classical music digital content creators in the UK. RESEARCH AND OPINION JSoM Alert! Too Many Dings and Beeps? Try… Read more »
September Entrepreneur of the Month: Flutist Jasmine Choi
Our Entrepreneur of the Month for September is recently appointed Jacobs School of Music faculty member, Jasmine Choi! An innovator in the classical music world, Choi is widely recognized for her artistry, teaching, and groundbreaking use of digital platforms to reach new audiences. Her YouTube channel, with more than 30 million views, exemplifies her commitment… Read more »
Weekly Digest: AI Artist is signed a multi-million record deal, summer music festival in the Moab, updates on national orgs, tension in the arts with Israel, and more.
FEATURE Al Singer Xania Monet Just Charted On Billboard, Signed $3M Deal. Is This The Future Of Music? Forbes: Doug Melvills Seventeen million streams in two months. A multimillion-dollar record deal. A Billboard-charting single. These are the kinds of stats that typically belong to breakout human stars. But today they belong to Xania Monet —… Read more »
WEEKLY DIGEST: Mason Bates bring Symphonic Electronica to Kavalier & Clay, Jazz Education and AI, trends in programming in an increasingly politicized world, orchestra updates, and more.
FEATURE JSoM Alert! The Composer Bringing ‘Symphonic Electronica’ to the Met NY Times: Adam Nagourney With “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” Mason Bates, a.k.a. DJ Masonic, expands the sound world of the Metropolitan Opera. The work was premiered by IU Opera Theater during the 2024-25 season and had its Met premiere this past… Read more »