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Showing posts with label Artificial Intelligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artificial Intelligence. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Suha Atiyeh Launches New Music Blog Exploring Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Music Creation

 

The new blog provides an accessible and thought-provoking look at how AI is transforming music production, creativity, and artistic ethics.

Suha Atiyeh, an artificial intelligence (AI) enthusiast and blogger, is proud to announce the launch of a new blog dedicated to exploring the evolving relationship between AI and music. The blog offers insights into how AI technologies are reshaping music creation, performance, and consumption, while also raising important questions about ethics, ownership, and the role of the artist in the digital age.

In her debut post, titled “The Evolution and Future of AI in Music Creation and Development,” Atiyeh traces the history of AI in music—from early computer-generated compositions in the 1950s to the advanced deep learning models used today. With a background in engineering and a passion for digital creativity, she brings a unique perspective to one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of modern technology.

“AI is not just disrupting industries—it’s collaborating with artists to reimagine what creativity means,” said Atiyeh. “This blog is a platform for exploring how technology is influencing our cultural expression and changing how we experience music.”

The blog highlights several key technologies now driving AI-powered music generation. These include Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Transformer models, which can predict and generate musical patterns. Atiyeh also introduces Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), which are capable of creating realistic audio that sounds like it was performed by humans. Another major focus is style transfer technology, which enables AI to apply the musical style of iconic composers to new works—blending classical influence with modern innovation.

Atiyeh’s blog also examines popular AI music tools such as AIVA and Boomy, which allow musicians and hobbyists to create high-quality tracks in just minutes. These tools are making music creation more accessible than ever before, while also challenging traditional ideas of musical authorship.

Importantly, the blog does not shy away from the ethical challenges that come with AI-generated content. Issues such as copyright ownership, authenticity, and the potential for misuse—such as voice cloning—are explored with thoughtful and balanced analysis.

What sets this blog apart is its accessibility. While many discussions about AI and music are highly technical or focused on commercial use, Atiyeh’s writing is clear, engaging, and easy for non-native English speakers and general readers to follow. Her aim is to create a space where artists, students, and curious minds alike can explore how emerging technologies are influencing the future of creative work.

To read the first post and explore more about the intersection of music and artificial intelligence, please visit https://suhaatiyehblog.blogspot.com.

 

Friday, January 15, 2021

Why is Marketing Transformation Essential in the Post Covid world?

 

The marketing has changed after Covid 19 Pandemic. Xerago, an integrated marketing service provider, introduces Acquigo, an Algorithmic Marketing Platform for brands with low marketing budgets.

 

2020 is a year to forget for businesses that are largely reliant on physical visits and interactions such as Airlines, Malls, Restaurants, Hotels, Theatres, etc. However, there are brands from other industries such as Financial Services, OTT, Digital Services, Gaming, E-Com, Food Delivery etc. that just rode the Covid wave to their advantage.

With the announcement of vaccines and their availability on the horizon, all brands are gearing up for the post-Covid era. Just like how the internet transformed media consumption and how the arrival of social media transformed advertising planning, Covid had brought a drastic shift in consumer behavior.

As Deloitte points out, shoppers use a mix of digital touchpoints along the buying journey during the pandemic. In the discovery part, shoppers use search engines, social media feeds, and influencers to get product inspiration outside a brand’s properties. In the buying stage of the journey, shoppers use new types of purchase points such as mobile wallets. Interestingly 14% of shoppers are making purchases through social media. 

Similarly, McKinsey’s studies reveal online has become the default purchase channel and it is going to continue going forward.

Source: McKinsey and Company COVID-19 Consumer Pulse Surveys, conducted globally September 18-30, 2020

Search insights on Google Trends reveal that consumer behaviors have become increasingly digital. Since the beginning of the pandemic, search interest in “online shopping” and “how to buy online” has grown 2X worldwide. These are completely new audiences in the digital world. 

Vishnu, Head-Digital Marketing at Xerago explained, “This presents a great opportunity. All demographics can be digitally targeted. Your marketing budgets can be skewed greatly towards digital media. Because you don’t need celebrity stars endorse your brand these days, you may have an 18-year old micro or macro influencer as your Brand Ambassador on Instagram.”

In addition to Marketing Transformation, he also explained, “To weather changes like these, marketers of tomorrow have to connect digitally with audiences better than before by spanning silos. This is essential, as the same consumer who gets your push notification also sees your email, also sees your Facebook Story, also sees your Display Ads, also sees your Instagram posts.”

So, to digitally connect with customers, marketers need to develop the ability to have unified, contextual, intelligent and real-time interactions with their audience across channels that are data driven, hyper-personalized and proactive with a closed loop. 

Doing one or some of Website, Direct Campaigns, Predictive Models, CRM, Social Media, Programmatic Ads, Performance Marketing, Retargeting, Big Data, Personalization, Mobile Apps, Content Management, Search Marketing, Artificial Intelligence and Experience Testing is not sufficient. Marketers need to span all these and stay connected with their audience.

And this requires Marketing Transformation.

For a long time, Marketing Transformation has largely been associated with brands like McKinsey, Accenture etc. and can be afforded by only those brands with multi-million dollar marketing budgets.

Things have changed now. The world has become flatter than ever, geographical boundaries are almost becoming non-existent, work from home has become new normal and agencies have mastered on digital and remote management of tasks in a seamless manner. 

If brands have large budgets, they should speak to companies like Accenture or McKinsey. And if they don't, they should speak to companies like Xerago that promise marketing transformation for brands using their Algorithmic Marketing Platform, Acquigo. “We are sure, there are many other marketing solutions partners who can help marketing organizations get through this brave new post-Covid world. Your audience has changed. How future-proof is your marketing? said Xerago spokesperson.

 

About Xerago

Xerago is an Integrated Marketing Services Provider that helps brands with their Marketing Transformation, by setting up and running Marketing Centres of Excellence. Xerago's mission is to help brands move from Fragmented thinking and processes to Integrated Marketing, so all marketing efforts yield maximum outcomes. Having offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai and Mumbai, Xerago has been providing integrated marketing services to some of the largest brands in the world across all verticals. Know more about them here

Contact:

Contact Person:  Seema, Sr. Functional Consultant, Marketing  

Email: seema@xerago.com

Company website : www.xerago.com

Product website: www.acquigo.com

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