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Bettina Varwig’s research focuses on how 17th and 18th-century listeners responded to music. “When you read about how music affected listeners in Bach’s time, their testimonies are striking in their bodily intensity. Music contracted their innards and made their hearts leap.” (The Guardian)
The arts world has started spending real effort to prove the obvious. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize ran its winners through a forensic review to certify them AI-free before handing out the award (The Bookseller). The AI music generator Suno, meanwhile, is courting the people it’s accused of replacing with an “incubator” program for artists who use its AI (The Hollywood Reporter) — a peace offering or a laundering operation, depending on your perspective. And A24, the studio that built a brand on handmade cool, torched some of it overnight with a Google DeepMind deal (The Hollywood Reporter). The AI divide is widening.
Chicago’s creative sector is now the city’s third-largest industry (WBEZ) — says a new report. Meanwhile, London’s Royal Ballet and Opera is eliminating 64 positions amid financial turmoil (OperaWire). And after 83 years in private hands, Norman Rockwell’s White House painting finally goes on public view (USA Today).
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Doug
