My guest today is musician and inventor of experimental musical instruments and musical robots, Gil Weinberg. Weinberg is a professor of musical technology at Georgia Tech and founding director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology.

In this interview, we spoke about:

• Shimon, the incredible robot that can sing, improvise, write music and more

• How algorithms are implemented in Shimon

• Working with drummer Jason Barnes to develop his prosthetic hand that allowed him to play the drums again • Finding patterns in music

• Defining rules over data to allow it to be meaningful

• How Gil resets his mind to allow for a fresh perspective on problems

• How Machine Learning is used to train, for example, Shimon

• The Game of Life and how it can be used to create music

Listen to Shimon Sings on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/album/49mqgxoLXFGP5NnBB5PQAU?si=QXBCoWCrQJaCX8WmIZ-skA

Live interview with music composer Tom Salta (Deathloop, Halo, Prince of Persia, Ghost Recon)

In this interview, we spoke about:

• The importance of playing the long game

• Significance vs fulfilment

• Tom's process of writing music for games

• Being a keyboard tech in the '90s

• How Tom got into writing music for games

• Favourite failure

And much more

Check out Tony's Masterclasses here: https://www.tomsalta.com/masterclass

Preorder Tom Salta's Deathloop Masterclass for $160 off using the code "audiosolutions-dl160"

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On the show today, we have jazz and fusion saxophonist and keyboardist, Gary Meek.

As a session musician, Gary has played with artists such as Dave Weckl Band, Fourth World, Green Day, Flora Purim, Airto Moreira and many others.

It was a real pleasure talking to Gary and I hope you will enjoy our conversation too.

In this interview, we spoke about:

• How Gary started out playing saxophone and piano

• The support from his father

• How to not think about what you are playing

• The mechanics of the saxophone

• How Gary supports himself as a musician

• How many streams do you need on Spotify to get $100?

• Learning how to record and mix during the pandemic

And much more

Connect with Gary Meek On:

https://garymeek.net

https://facebook.com/garymeekmusic/about

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