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- 1New museum invites Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music▼‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music
A new museum in Austria is encouraging locals to reconnect with The Sound of Music, the 1965 film that became a global phenomenon yet long went underappreciated at home. The venue, described by curators as 'a joyful place', celebrates the musical's story and filming locations, hoping Austrians will finally embrace a classic that generations of tourists have loved.
- 2Music startup Thoughtful Things launches Engram sampler on Kickstarter●Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It's a samp
Music startup Thoughtful Things has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Engram, its first instrument. Engram is a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to transform incoming audio and generate entirely new sounds. The company is keen to stress it is not an AI music generator like Suno, but a hands-on hardware tool for producers to mangle and reshape samples. The campaign is drawing attention from music technology enthusiasts interested in how AI is being built into physical instruments.
- 3Engram turns AI hallucinations into music●Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1
Engram is a new sampler instrument that takes the garbled outputs and glitches produced by AI models and turns them into usable musical material. The tool, covered by The Verge, reframes AI hallucinations — usually seen as a flaw — as raw sound for artists. It is drawing attention at the intersection of AI and experimental music production.
- 4Josh Homme Returns to the Desert With New Music▼Josh Homme Returns to the Desert With New Music and a New Perspective
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme is back in the California desert with new music and a renewed outlook. The Palm Springs-rooted rocker, who has been open in recent years about health struggles and personal upheaval, is framing this chapter as a fresh start both creatively and personally, reconnecting with the region that shaped his sound.