Interview: Building the next wave of music AI tools, with Ed Newton-Rex (VP Audio, Stability AI)
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On September 13, 2023, Stability AI launched their text-to-audio generation tool Stable Audio, the latest addition to a rapidly accelerating wave of development around music AI this year. We’re seeing an influx of stakeholders from every corner — developers, artists, rights holders — race to build large-scale music generation models, ship improved user experiences on top of those models, and close industry partnership deals, all at an unprecedented commercial scale and technical quality.
At this juncture, we're thrilled to host our next Water Cooler interview with featured speaker Ed Newton-Rex, VP of Audio at Stability AI. Our conversation, moderated by Yung Spielburg, will give an inside look at the major milestones and challenges around building Stable Audio, as well as a macro view on how the music AI landscape has evolved over the last several years — and what it will take to scale and sustain it effectively in this next critical stage.
We'll leave 15 minutes of open Q&A at the end so you can help directly shape our discussion.
About Ed Newton-Rex
Ed Newton-Rex is the VP of Audio at Stability AI. Ed previously founded Jukedeck, an AI music generation company, which was acquired by ByteDance in 2019; at ByteDance, he ran the Music Intelligence lab, then led Product in Europe for TikTok. He was also Chief Product Officer at Voisey, a music collaboration app that was acquired by Snap. In his spare time he writes choral music, published by Boosey & Hawkes.
About Water Cooler
Water Cooler is Water & Music's biweekly, members-only interview series, giving an inside look at cutting-edge music-industry innovation through conversations with founders, creators, and business leaders. Our goal is to equip our members with the vocabulary and business acumen to navigate the fast-moving music-tech landscape more thoughtfully and intelligently.
Speakers are hand-curated by Water & Music's research team, with conversations featuring both deep-dives into music-tech products and commentary on wider macro industry trends.
About Water & Music
Water & Music is a research network for music and tech, on a mission to make the music industry more innovative, cooperative, and transparent. From in-depth, data-driven analyses on emerging market trends, to hands-on educational workshops and a regular slate of virtual and IRL event programming, W&M aims to equip music-industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and creators with the tools and mindsets to navigate tech innovation successfully.
You can learn more about our research and our unique industry perspective on our website.
