{"id":58874,"date":"2020-01-09T13:46:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=58874"},"modified":"2020-01-09T13:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:46:05","slug":"the-music-sounds-better-with-whom-short-form-documentary-explores-where-music-and-tech-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/01\/the-music-sounds-better-with-whom-short-form-documentary-explores-where-music-and-tech-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Music Sounds Better With Whom&#8217; &#8211; Short Form Documentary Explores Where Music And Tech Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8216;The Music Sounds Better with Whom: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence On The Music Experience&#8217; is a short documentary which examines the point at which music and technology meet, with the focus on the way in which AI impacts not just producers and listeners, but also society as a whole.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/graciemgt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chasson Gracie<\/a>, now based in Toronto but originally from New York City, &#8216;The Music Sounds Better With Whom&#8217; has been shown across the film festival season, and picked up a major award for Best Documentary, at the Toronto Shorts International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_31299\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dgDnV_Zx4bo?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"The Music Sounds Better with Whom? 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This documentary explores these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8216;Music Sounds Better With Whom&#8217; has received the following accolades:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Toronto International Shorts Film Festival &#8211; Jury Award, Best Documentary<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Georgia Documentary Film Festival 2019 Award Nominations &amp; Winners &#8211;\u00a0Jury Award, Best Cinematography Award<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Los Angeles International Film Festival &#8211; Jury Award, Certificate of Achievement<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Global Shorts Competition &#8211; Jury Award, Special Mention<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Best Shorts Competition &#8211; Jury Award, Award of Recognition<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jelly International Film Festival &#8211; Jury Award, Award of Recognition<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visit the film&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicandai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official website<\/a> for further information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The Music Sounds Better with Whom: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Music Experience&#8217; is a short documentary which examines the point at which music and technology meet, with the focus on the way in which AI impacts not just producers and listeners, but also society as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":58883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5200,7,15853,640],"tags":[18064,23979,18063,23975,792,23980,23976,1008,23977,23978,13354],"class_list":["post-58874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films","category-music","category-new-releases-films","category-videos","tag-ai","tag-amazon-prime","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chasson-gracie","tag-film","tag-film-festival","tag-msuic","tag-premiere","tag-the-music-sounds-better-with-whom","tag-the-music-sounds-better-with-whom-the-impact-of-artificial-intelligence-on-the-music-experience","tag-trailer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-fjA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55830,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/09\/depeche-mode-announce-new-documentary-depeche-mode-spirits-in-the-forest\/","url_meta":{"origin":58874,"position":0},"title":"Depeche Mode Announce New Documentary &#8216;Depeche Mode: SPIRITS In The Forest&#8217;","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"22\/09\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Depeche Mode present 'Depeche Mode: SPIRITS In The Forest'. 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