Lucas Cantor Santiago

Unfinished (MP3-Download)

The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Ungekürzte Lesung. 459 Min.
Sprecher: Ragland, Christopher

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Produktbeschreibung

Bloomsbury presents Unfinished by by Lucas Cantor Santiago, read by Christopher Ragland. For most of his career, the Emmy Award–winning composer and producer Lucas Cantor Santiago was a self-described luddite. Technology, he felt, was moving too fast, transforming the world and the arts with no regard for the cost in tradition, hard-won human wisdom, and tried-and-true methods of mastery. That changed, however, when Cantor Santiago was commissioned by Huawei, one of the largest technology companies on the planet, to collaborate with artificial intelligence and finish Franz Schubert's Unfinished Symphony—a successful experiment that attracted attention throughout the world. Creating music in collaboration with a machine led him to question his long-standing assumptions about what music is, what technology does, and how the two have evolved together over the course of human history, from the first bone flute to today's landscape of constant innovation and change. Drawing on Cantor Santiago's extensive experience in the arts and tech worlds and his ongoing experiments with AI-powered music making, Unfinished is an engaging and refreshingly optimistic meditation on the role of technology in music and the arts. What is the current state of the art? How did we get here? Where do we go now? This book provides an informed perspective on what is lost but what we also gain when we bring our machines ever further into the creation of art in its many different forms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Backbeat
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216387473
• Artikelnr.: 75870757

Autorenporträt

Lucas David Cantor Santiago is an author, producer, TEDx speaker, university guest lecturer, and two-time Emmy Award winner. He's collaborated with artists like Lorde, The Wu-Tang Clan, Spike Jonze, and Michel Gondry, and he's worked with major studios like FOX, NBC, Disney, Netflix, and DreamWorks. His music has reached hundreds of millions through radio, television, major films, and sports television broadcasts (including two Super Bowls). In 2019, Lucas used AI to complete Schubert's “Unfinished Symphony,” which is now performed by orchestras around the world. He is a founding General Partner at Mindset MusicTech, a venture capital fund that invests in music technology. He also mentors entrepreneurs through Abbey Road Redd and the British Phonographic Institute, investing in the next generation of music innovation.

Rezensionen

Only time will tell whether AI, this latest in civilizational toys, will turn out to be more Gutenberg press or atomic weapon, but one thing is for sure: we will rely on voices of reason to shepherd us through the fog and signpost the journey. Using our world of film music as a backdrop, Lucas Cantor Santiago wrestles with some of the most pressing questions of our time. Lucas has carved a unique career for himself, operating at the frontier where technology and music meet, and has brought us a bounty of expertise and playful insight that makes for a fascinating read.