Granville Timbaland
Upsample with Carson Tworow & Will Chernoff · Chernoff Music
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Show Notes
We're back from going to festivals! We kick it off in urban affairs with "The Uncertain Future of Granville Island" by Uytae Lee on the YouTube channel About Here (2:23), then swing into AI as Carson shares the Timbaland music training/generating controversy (24:31) and Will gets into The Velvet Sundown, an accelerationist mix of AI-generated everything + bot playlist marketing (47:09).
Timbaland links:
- “Timbaland’s AI music project is a ghost in a misguided machine” by Sheldon Pearce for NPR
- Zarah Scully claims Timbaland trained Suno using her voice
- YouTube video: Curtiss King interviews Zarah Scully
Velvet Sundown links:
- "The Velvet Sundown are a seemingly AI-generated band with 325k Spotify listeners" by Stuart Dredge for Music Ally
- Benn Jordan’s IG post claiming Velvet Sundown are 100% AI gen. Rick Beato agrees
- They are supposedly tweeting
Recs: Carson - album Tether by Annahstasia, Will - album Gadabout Season by Brandee Younger
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Hosted by Carson Tworow & Will Chernoff. Edited and mixed by Will Chernoff. A Chernoff Music podcast. Theme music by Carson Tworow.