James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems has invested in Authentic Artists, a seed-stage startup that Wednesday launched a new AI-powered virtual artist platform for music, gaming and streaming applications.
Chris McGarry, who previously led music integration at Facebook’s Oculus, is the founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based company. He said the platform, which instantly composes and produces fully-formed, high-quality songs performed by AI-powered virtual artists, enables “entirely new, never-before-seen virtual music experiences designed to serve the evolving preferences, tastes and desires of fans searching for truly unique content.”
It can deliver these interactive experiences, or what it calls “adaptive” or “generative” music, across the globe, 24 hours a day to all connected channels.
The company noted that popular virtual concerts on Fortnite and Roblox in 2020 showed “there are now billions of gamers globally for whom the traditional lines between music and gaming are blurred, or even non-existent. Authentic Artists offers...
Chris McGarry, who previously led music integration at Facebook’s Oculus, is the founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based company. He said the platform, which instantly composes and produces fully-formed, high-quality songs performed by AI-powered virtual artists, enables “entirely new, never-before-seen virtual music experiences designed to serve the evolving preferences, tastes and desires of fans searching for truly unique content.”
It can deliver these interactive experiences, or what it calls “adaptive” or “generative” music, across the globe, 24 hours a day to all connected channels.
The company noted that popular virtual concerts on Fortnite and Roblox in 2020 showed “there are now billions of gamers globally for whom the traditional lines between music and gaming are blurred, or even non-existent. Authentic Artists offers...
- 4/7/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Everyone flush with cash in the music industry is looking for the next Spotify; Techstars Music wants to help build it. The mentorship-based, music-focused startup program — which spawned out of general technology startup accelerator Techstars four years ago, has since raised $75 million in follow-on capital, and now boasts a combined portfolio value of almost $350 million — announced its 2020 class today, trumpeting 10 music-tech ideas it believes will be key to the industry’s future.
The chosen startups include a machine-learning fan analytics platform, an audio/visual content company focused on audience experience,...
The chosen startups include a machine-learning fan analytics platform, an audio/visual content company focused on audience experience,...
- 2/5/2020
- by Amy X. Wang
- Rollingstone.com
The 25th anniversary of Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” will be celebrated at the Hollywood Bowl with two performances led by Danny Elfman and featuring cast members and guest artists.
Scheduled for October 26 and 27, the live-to-picture screening and concert is produced by Laura Engel and Richard Kraft, Tim Fox and Alison Ahart Williams, and Live Nation/Andrew Hewitt & Bill Silva Presents, in association with Disney Concerts. The orchestra will be led by conductor John Mauceri, founding Director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
Elfman will reprise his role of Jack Skellington with Catherine O’Hara (Sally) and Ken Page (Oogie Boogie) set to take part in a presentation that includes living scenery projected onto the facade of the Bowl in what Kraft and Engel term a “fully immersive digital” visual.
The 1993 movie directed by Henry Selick (“James and the Giant Peach”) and based on a story and characters by Tim Burton.
Scheduled for October 26 and 27, the live-to-picture screening and concert is produced by Laura Engel and Richard Kraft, Tim Fox and Alison Ahart Williams, and Live Nation/Andrew Hewitt & Bill Silva Presents, in association with Disney Concerts. The orchestra will be led by conductor John Mauceri, founding Director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
Elfman will reprise his role of Jack Skellington with Catherine O’Hara (Sally) and Ken Page (Oogie Boogie) set to take part in a presentation that includes living scenery projected onto the facade of the Bowl in what Kraft and Engel term a “fully immersive digital” visual.
The 1993 movie directed by Henry Selick (“James and the Giant Peach”) and based on a story and characters by Tim Burton.
- 9/4/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Fans of Disney's timeless holiday classic, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas will now have another chance to see Disney In Concert's Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday, October 28 at 8:00pm.
The first two nights of this concert event sold out within days when it was announced Los Angeles' reigning Pumpkin King, Danny Elfman, would return to the Hollywood Bowl performing his role of Jack Skellington singing live to film. Elfman will be joined by other original cast members including Catherine O'Hara(Sally), Ken Page (Oogie Boogie) and Paul Reubens (Lock).
Danny Elfman, who wrote the film's songs (music and lyrics), composed its original score and was the original singing voice of Jack Skellington, says:
"Being able to perform 'Nightmare' live last year, in synch to the movie with a full orchestra was such a thrill. But having Catherine O'Hara, Ken Page...
The first two nights of this concert event sold out within days when it was announced Los Angeles' reigning Pumpkin King, Danny Elfman, would return to the Hollywood Bowl performing his role of Jack Skellington singing live to film. Elfman will be joined by other original cast members including Catherine O'Hara(Sally), Ken Page (Oogie Boogie) and Paul Reubens (Lock).
Danny Elfman, who wrote the film's songs (music and lyrics), composed its original score and was the original singing voice of Jack Skellington, says:
"Being able to perform 'Nightmare' live last year, in synch to the movie with a full orchestra was such a thrill. But having Catherine O'Hara, Ken Page...
- 9/14/2016
- by Kellvin Chavez
- LRMonline.com
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