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Do you wish to become a star overnight?

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  G Alright alright alright. Well well well. Today, my dear music makers and enthusiasts, your one and only Greg Zeroin will chat with none other than Mr. Mike Euphamas, from Star Overnight, one of the biggest online music promoters of these strange times. Mike, can you make me famous overnight? M Greg, I think you are already doing pretty well climbing that ladder up to the night sky.. G That was very kind of you to say… M But, if, up in your sleeves you have recorded music that you wish to share online through streamer services? Absolutely, man, we’re there to support you and drive your chariot up on the Milky Way for all to see. G Fantastic, so, let’s say I have a just released single or EP on Spotify and every other major music streaming service but nobody seems to care about streaming it. What shall I do? M Wonderful. You already made a tiny mistake though, because you should have hired us to release your material through some secret shortcuts straight on the track...

How to avoid recognition in music?

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  Hi, this is Greg Zeroin from Sci-fi Music. Today I will post a rather unusual conversation with a professor and researcher of sociomusicology, who happens to be a musician as well, Dr. Jacob Scuro. G Jacob, how did you find yourself this research topic of avoiding recognition in music? J It is rather simple. As a musician, I had a hard time avoiding recognition and I wanted to learn more about it. How to achieve and keep obscurity have become something of an obsession to me. G Okay, let us go back to the beginning. How avoiding recognition has become an issue for you? You know, most people think that musicians actually desire recognition and they struggle to get into the spotlight somehow. J They do. Yes, I am painfully aware of that. But I am not convinced that it is their fault entirely. When you look at it closely, you realize that the whole system of music presentation and distribution is biased or even blatantly geared towards putting the musician behind the storefro...

How self-listening musical albums work?

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Hello Sci-fi Music followers, Greg Zeroin here with more tech news. The following update is a response to our readers request. We recently published an interview with Rob Ottman from SLR Inc. Even though Mr. Ottman did a wonderful job telling us about self-listening technologies, our readers started to bombard us with requests for more details. Mr. Ottman was kind enough to pass it on to the SLR development team and one of the lead engineers, Nick Almeca took upon the task of giving us more information. Since we could not arrange for an interview, Nick sent us this information in an email, which I just copied here in its entirety. “Hi there Greg, greetings to all Sci-fi Music readers. We’re grateful for the opportunity to tell you more about our inventions. As I understand, your readers were most interested in the background mechanism of a self-listening album. I hope I can clarify some of the details. Once such an album is released, a macro gets activated in it. In the first step thi...

The Least Streamed Album in the World

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 In this episode of Sci-fi Music tech news  Greg Zeroin talks with Zsolt Palatinus, the artist behind ‘ Reflections ’ G: Zsolt, how does someone end up creating the least listened to music album on the whole planet? Z: Well it takes a lot of work and devotion. Plus, you've got to be kind of stubborn at it, too. G: So, how low can you get with the number of listeners these days? Z: Pretty low, believe me... G: I mean there's always at least one, yourself? Z:      Well, that was the first thing we ruled out by a rather simple technique that made me medically deaf throughout production. That guarantees that I do not pump up the numbers accidentally. G: Wait, so you did not listen to your own music while you recorded it? Z:      Yeah, no. It also sped up things a bit. It turns out, I can produce at least twice as fast if I am not hindered by how it sounds. G:      Impressive, so that brings down the numbers to zero. I mean p...

The SLR interview

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  G Hi there, Greg Zeroin here with tech news at Sci-fi Music. Today I brought you a mind bending story about another new technology that is supposed to revolutionize the way music is being… er R Exactly. G Folks, this is Mr. Rob Ottmann from SLR Inc. R Hi. G Rob, may I call you Rob, Sir? R You may. G Thanks, Rob, SLR stands for self-listening recordings. What does self-listening even mean? R Well, it means a lot more than self-listening actually. We work hard to help anyone and everyone involved in music. G OK, let us start at the beginning then. Do you help composers? R Absolutely. Our artificial intelligence algorithms write music that is indistinguishable or better than human-written music. Our AI musicians play every note on a world class level. Our AI sound engineer algorithms record, mix and master everything at the highest standard and.. G Wait a second, why do you think you can help these people by replacing them with AI? R Oh, we’re not replac...