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SoundCloud Quietly Forced Artists to Let AI Feast on Their Music SoundCloud, a music-sharing platform loved by new and independent artists, updated its terms to allow it to use artists' work for AI training.

Soundcloud is using your music to train AI. Artists don’t want this! We want fair pay, fair treatment, and to be valued for the work we do and art we create.
futurism.com/soundcloud-a...

2025 Video Game Composer and Sound Designer Survey Game Audio Industry Survey 2025. This is our 12th year running this survey of the video game music and sound industry

Please take the GameSoundCon #GameAudio industry survey!
We have been conducting this survey since 2014 on game audio trends, salaries and other info

www.surveymonkey.com/r/GSCGameAud...
The survey is anonymous It should take 5-7 minutes to complete.
Results will be posed this summer.

The Sinking City 2 Explore the flooded ruins of Arkham in this Lovecraftian survival horror. Coming to PC, PS5 & Xbox Series.

Insta backed this! Loved the first one, plus long suffering Ukrainian dev needing support

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fro...

You had me at “it’s up there with Hexcells”

"what were the skies like when you were young?" Co-workers asked me the other day "why do you hate spotify?" and truly, I could've gone on for hours. I didn't (much to their relief) but th...

A few thoughts on spotify, streamers, etc. because I realised I'm just shouting them on here and I keep forgetting stuff:
blogaboutsatan.blogspot.com/2024/12/what...

At SAG-AFTRA's First Picket, Video Game Performers Say 'People Are Realizing They Can’t Just Be Beaten Around By The C-Suite Anymore' - Aftermath "If those simple jobs are taken away, there is going to be an entire generation of performers that won’t have the same opportunities we had.”

not sure if i was particularly proud of anything i wrote this year, as i'm very aware that i've been burnt out and writing to pay the bills. but i believe this piece by @aftermath.site is the most important thing i've managed to produce. aftermath.site/voice-actor-...

A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.

More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):

1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇

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Christ that’s so weird. Wonder if it’s down to hyper editing, I hear that a lot on YouTube videos- attention spans are so short that any tiny gap or extraneous word MUST be edited out, leaves it sounding totally unnatural

happy Spotify Wrapped day! I need your behavioral metadata, stop bogarting that behavioral metadata bro! I need to quantify where you are and how you’re feeling right now so I can feed you slop made in a death drone laboratory in Stockholm it’s all vibes bro, it’s all love bro

Oh yeah and the Hydra can send V/O CV out so you could match the pitch of the eurorack oscillators to the internal ones too. Love the Hydrasynth ❤️

Wow that sounds amazing! I’ve had a Hydrasynth for a while but never actually tried using its inputs for audio - definitely need to give it a go

This is amazing! Would love a detailed look around at what you’ve got patched up there - 0-ctrl as main sequencer?

All I want for Christmas is a new contract announcement for Mo Salah

The greatest

Aaaaaah that’s better. Swear I heard my phone breathe a sigh of relief