Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Santiago, Lucas Cantor

Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798765143179)

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Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Santiago, Lucas Cantor

Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

$29.95
Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Santiago, Lucas Cantor

Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

$29.95
Format: Hardcover
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For most of his career, the Emmy Award-winning composer and producer Lucas Cantor Santiago was a self-described luddite. Technology, he felt, was moving too fast, transforming the world and the arts with no regard for the cost in tradition, hard-won human wisdom, and tried-and-true methods of mastery.

That changed, however, when Cantor Santiago was commissioned by Huawei, one of the largest technology companies on the planet, to collaborate with artificial intelligence and finish Franz Schubert's Unfinished Symphony-a successful experiment that attracted attention throughout the world. Creating music in collaboration with a machine led him to question his long-standing assumptions about what music is, what technology does, and how the two have evolved together over the course of human history, from the first bone flute to today's landscape of constant innovation and change.
Drawing on Cantor Santiago's extensive experience in the arts and tech worlds and his ongoing experiments with AI-powered musicmaking, Unfinished is an engaging and refreshingly optimistic meditation on the role of technology in music and the arts. What is the current state of the art? How did we get here? Where do we go now? This book provides an informed perspective on what is lost but what we also gain when we bring our machines ever further into the creation of art in its many different forms.

Author: Lucas Cantor Santiago
ISBN-13: 9798765143179
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2025
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
By Lucas Cantor Santiago
By Lucas Cantor Santiago
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Lucas David Cantor Santiago is a composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He has collaborated on projects with Lorde, The Wu-Tang Clan, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Warner Music, DreamWorks, Disney, NBCUniversal, Fox, Netflix and many others. His music can be heard on the radio, on television, in major feature films, NFL football coverage (including the 2023 Super Bowl) and on concert stages. In addition to numerous other awards and honors, Lucas is a two-time Emmy Award winner.

His concert works include the final two movements of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony (finished with AI), the Softbank Sinfonia (a data-driven octet), New Composition #38 (a piece written by AI and produced by Cantor Santiago) and 24 Dedications, all of them recorded and performed around the world.

Lucas is a TEDx speaker on the subject of artificial intelligence and the arts. He's a guest lecturer at UCLA, USC and Belmont University and a regular speaker at the ASCAP Experience in Los Angeles and the annual AI Everything Expo at the Dubai World Trade Center.

He is a founding General Partner in a Verse Chorus Venture Capital, a firm that invests in music technology.

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