Grimes has unveiled Elf.Tech, her personal AI voice mimicking software program that may enable customers to report vocals in Grimes’ voice.
The singer-producer introduced Elf.Tech through her social media on April 30, confirming that it’s at the moment in its beta testing part. “If you go to elf.tech u can upload ur voice singing or record directly into the app (click the “create” button to do that). It will output the identical audio however with my voice,” Grimes defined.
1 – that is all a beta take a look at so it might be imperfect at first. But! Let’s do that out! If you go to https://t.co/7OEKD2XbPd u can add ur voice singing or report straight into the app (click on the “create” button to do that). It will output the identical audio however with my voice 🧚🏻♀️
— 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 (@Grimezsz) April 30, 2023
In her Twitter thread, Grimes additionally mentioned customers can “feel free to take advantage” of the Grimes IP, and that the platform can gather grasp recording royalties for customers in the event that they distribute their songs by Elf.Tech.
“You can use Grimes name and likeness (I humbly ask that you please be tasteful tho). Grimes is now open source and self replicating,” she wrote on Twitter earlier than including that Elf.Tech will search a 50 per cent break up on grasp recording royalties “in exchange for a Grimes feat and distribution”.
Grimes additionally confirmed that she will likely be releasing “real Grimes music in the coming weeks and months”, including that ‘Music For Machines’ and ‘I Wanna Be Software’ are “coming soon” although launch dates are at the moment unknown.
6 – & I’ll be releasing actual Grimes music within the coming weeks and months too ofc ^_^ Music for Machines and I wanna be software program coming quickly !
And once more plz excuse any hiccups or bugs – that is all new and we’re workshopping it! Xo📚🚀💅🏻
— 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 (@Grimezsz) April 30, 2023
Grimes first introduced Elf.Tech final week (April 24), saying she and her crew had been engaged on “a program that should simulate my voice well”. The following day, Grimes revealed that Elf.Tech had been arrange they usually had been determining methods to register makes use of and import vocals.
She additionally outlined a number of circumstances through which tracks could be taken down. “We may do copyright takedowns ONLY for rly rly toxic lyrics w grimes voice: imo you’d rly have to push it for me to wanna take smthn down but I guess plz don’t be *the worst*. as in, try not to exit the current Overton window of lyrical content w regards to sex/violence. Like no baby murder songs plz,” she wrote.
Ok hate this half however we could do copyright takedowns ONLY for rly rly poisonous lyrics w grimes voice: imo you’d rly must push it for me to wanna take smthn down however I suppose plz do not be *the worst*. as in, strive to not exit the present Overton window of lyrical content material w regards to…
— 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 (@Grimezsz) April 24, 2023
In late April, Grimes confirmed that she had parted methods with Columbia Records. She had solely been on their roster since March 2021. She additionally spoke on the annual International Music Summit (IMS) in Ibiza on April 28, the place she delivered the keynote speech moderated by BBC Radio 1 Dance DJ Jaguar. In her speech, she went into subjects surrounding synthetic intelligence, music rights administration and know-how.
“I feel strongly that there’s way too much gatekeeping in music,” mentioned Grimes. “Copyright sucks. Art is a conversation with everyone that’s come before us. Intertwining it with the ego is a modern concept. The music industry has been defined by lawyers, and that strangles creativity.”