Great research report (attached) from Landr about how musicians are using AI. A few highlights: - 87% of artists now use AI somewhere in their workflow. - 29% of respondents are using song generators at some stage in their workflow, especially to create song parts like vocals and instruments. - 40% are interested in trying them 
 out, particularly for song parts or ideas rather than complete tracks. AI as a collaborator is the avenue to watch and learn IMO...

Hey everyone - first of all, it was great hanging out with you all last night. What a great group of professionals and people! I thought I'd post my SUNO experiment here so you can hear what we were talking about last night. I uploaded the first verse and chorus of a song I wrote a long time ago in demo form with me singing, and asked it to put an Indie Rock spin on it. The second version is what SUNO gave back to me. All the tracks are downloadable in Stems from SUNO so I can drag it into Logic and work from there to refine it. (PS - SUNO also just introduced a Studio product which seems to mimic a DAW.) Question - for composers/producers who can't afford to bring a crew of session musicians together to work on a song, is SUNO (or AI) going to be a tool for collaboration moving forward? - As @Leonardo Escárcega pointed out, is it that different from taking inspiration or adding to your track with a Splice loop you manipulate? - What about Logic's Session players - aren't they AI? - How about EastWest's Hollywood Orchestrator? Just like coders are now using AI as a tool to help them code faster, will media composers use AI as a tool to work faster? Both still need a "composer" to make tweaks, edit, react to feedback from a client, etc. AI is here and going to change the landscape no doubt. As media composers that work on extremely tight deadlines, is there a way for us to harness the power for good in an ethical fashion?

This is a really interesting clip from Harvey Mason Jr., session player and head of the Recording Academy. Here’s the clip: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQUoDtCEnHo/?igsh=MWFmbXI4YXFteDdiMA== I think he’s right AND there’s a way to use it ethically as a collaborator. It’s here and ain’t going anywhere. Once people get over the novelty and horror of its ability to create music in its own, the tools that will be created for us as lone wolf producer will be incredible.

📍 1. CONTEXT / INDUSTRY SHIFT SoundExchange just announced the Global AI Sound Recording Registry, a public system launching in 2025 that lets rights owners officially declare how their recordings can or cannot be used to train AI models. This move follows the explosion of AI music tools ingesting commercial and indie catalogs without consent. The registry aims to create a public paper trail - a record of creator intent - before AI companies start scraping. Participation is free and voluntary. Each recording tied to an ISRC can be marked as: - Reserved - cannot be used for AI training. - Contact RO - cannot be used without permission, but open for direct licensing. - Not Indicated - no stance given (the default). If no declaration is made, your tracks default to “Not Indicated,” meaning your position is undefined. The registry marks a structural shift from reactive lawsuits to proactive digital rights declarations. - 📂 2. CASE FOCUS / BREAKDOWN • Integration with existing ISRC systems. The registry will sit on top of SoundExchange’s public ISRC database - the same structure used for royalty collection - giving it built-in legitimacy. • AI compliance layer. Developers' training models will be able to reference this database before using sound recordings, similar to checking a rights ledger. • “Contact RO” opens licensing opportunities. Instead of flat rejection, creators can signal willingness to negotiate fair AI-use licenses directly. • Legal transparency tool, not a shield. SoundExchange notes that the registry will not prevent misuse by itself, but it strengthens the evidence trail for creators asserting rights. • EU law connection. The declaration ties to Article 4 of the EU Directive 2019/790, which allows text and data mining unless rights holders opt out. The registry is a formal way to opt out globally. - 📈 3. STRATEGY OR BUSINESS PRINCIPLE Principle: Rights Declaration Before Ingestion. The industry has spent years reacting after the fact - discovering that recordings were trained into AI datasets post-use. This registry flips the sequence. Rights owners can now make their stance public before training ever happens.

Check out this interview with Ludwig Goransson and his steps of creating the music for "Oppenheimer" he talks about not having to add alot of sounds to make your piece sound bigger but more on capturing the emotion and more... https://youtu.be/fWvX4M1dXss?si=ymj8iNgzpxRhRKfP