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Inside the Music Tech Revolution: AI, NFTs, and More with Daouda Leonard

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A $1 million record deal can still leave an artist recouping for years.

1. Edge Of AI Podcast focuses on Daouda Leonard and CreateSafe's music-tech work around AI, blockchain, and artist rights. 2. Ron Levy hosts, and Daouda Leonard appears as CEO of CreateSafe, co-founder of Trinity and Elftec, and a Billboard change agent. 3. The episode asks how AI can help people create, distribute, and monetize music while keeping artist consent and compensation in place. 4. Leonard says CreateSafe began in 2019 by using machine learning and NLP to automate booking sessions, scheduling studios, and other admin work. 5. He describes meeting Grimes during a management transition and building an early deepfake voice project with her. 6. That project trained a neural net on meditation literature, gaming content, and social media content for audio outputs. 7. Leonard says the collaboration expanded his view from music production into IP, avatars, and new artist identities. 8. He says the music industry now has two worlds: big tech companies using AI and creator tools using machine learning. 9. He names Spotify, its AI DJ, and Splice as examples of AI already embedded in listening and music creation. 10. He describes Endel and the "AI lullaby" project using Grimes sounds to create adaptive soundscapes tied to the sun, weather, and wearables. 11. Leonard says the Endel collaboration won a Watch App of the Year award in 2020. 12. He explains that Trinity is a creation and distribution platform for music using AI and blockchain networks. 13. He says the platform uses smart contracts and public metadata so rights holders can set prices for remixes, samples, interpolations, and game use. 14. Leonard says Elftec lets users play songs with Grimes's voice and distribute them to Spotify, Apple, Amazon, and YouTube. 15. He says Grimes set a 50/50 revenue split for use of her voice, name, image, and likeness. 16. He walks through the record deal simulator using a $1 million advance and a 20% royalty example to show recoupment math. 17. Leonard says a lawyer review for a song contract can cost about $2,500 on average, which many artists cannot afford. 18. The conversation is conversational and explanatory, with Levy repeatedly pressing for plain-English examples and Leonard answering with product cases. 19. Listeners interested in AI music, artist rights, and creator tools would likely follow this conversation. 20. Listeners seeking abstract AI philosophy without music-industry specifics might skip this one.

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A practical music-AI episode that is clearest when it gets specific about creation and release.

Edge Of AI follows Dauda Leonard as he walks through CreateSafe's Trinity platform and how it moves a music idea from a rough voice to a more polished track, then on to something ready for DSPs.

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See how Trinity takes a rough voice idea to a full song and lets you push it to DSPs in minutes.

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