Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Hardcover
by Lucas Cantor Santiago (Author)
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.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.
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