Fine Music Magazine September 2024 and AI
Composer features, a volunteer spotlight, a music quiz… and AI!
The September edition of 2MBS Fine Music Magazine ventures into controversial territory this month
with an AI-assisted feature by editor David Ogilvie on film music composer Maurice Jarre.
It’s the first in a series looking into the issues that artificial intelligence raises for music and music broadcasting.
Michael Morton-Evans pens a fascinating piece on Gustav Holst (“The Weekend Composer Who Shot to Fame”);
Pictured: Arnold Schoenberg
Derek Parker profiles the work of ‘musical disrupter’ Arnold Schoenberg; and Barry O’Sullivan talks with Sydney jazz doyen and saxophonist, Steve Fitzmaurice.
Mary Lenart with the Governor of NSW, Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC
There’s also a charming spotlight interview with long-time volunteer Mary Lenart and the return of our popular quiz, this month with a theme of music featuring animals, birds and insects!
Editor David Ogilvie says Artificial Intelligence (AI) threatens to revolutionise the way society functions and way music and music broadcasters operate.
“It’s no exaggeration to say its development is on a par with the adoption of the internet itself… we ignore it at our peril.”
In a series of articles over the next few months, Fine Music Magazine will explain what GAI is, how it works in relation to writing about music,its benefits and risks as well as ethical issues including, copyright and plagiarism.
This month’s article was edited from ChatGPT-generated text. Next month’s edition will compare the original with this version.
And 2MBS has invited feedback (“whether you are excited, enthused or enraged by this development”) from its readers!
There’s much more in the offing at 2MBS Fine Music this month and beyond.
2MBSFM Fine Music’s September magazine cover
The listener survey has invited feedback and suggestions from all listeners – subscribers and not! It’s open to all at: https://survey.sogolytics.com/
And the annual 2MBS Young Virtuoso Award is set to launch with state finals on Sunday 13 October and National Finals on 23 November at the Sydney Conservatorium.
Plus a slew of events and initiatives as part of the 50th Anniversary of the station:
- The publication of Michael Morton-Evans’ history of the station “The Experiment that Lasted Half a Century”;
- a celebratory dinner, planned for 12 December;
- a retrospective special broadcast airing at 12noon on 15 December (exactly 50 years to the hour since the first broadcast!);
- and an open day at the studios on Saturday 1 February when the public can tour the station, meet the presenters, make an on-air request or record a message!
- Special messages from famous musicians and musical ‘stings’ have been recorded for broadcast later this year. And an elegant new logo will be unveiled. Watch this space!
2MBS Fine Music Sydney is Australia’s first ever stereo FM radio station and it’s a premier broadcaster of Classical, Jazz, Blues, World, Folk, Ambient and other Contemporary music.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary later this year, the station brings fine music for every taste to Sydneysiders on 102.5 FM stereo, nationally and globally via the internet 24/7 (at www.2mbsfinemusicsydney.com), and now – in your pocket, wherever you go, via the 2MBS App (available on the Apple App or Google Play Stores).
