TWiRT 712 – Fun with AI Inspires Broadcast Engineers – Matt Aaron & Anthony Kuzub

Posted on 20240907 by Anthony P. Kuzub

The rise of AI-generated lyrics and music is giving engineers something to chuckle about. But could this “easy creativity” inspire other engineering solutions? Kirk drew a comparison with photographer Jeremy Cowart and his use of an LED wall to produce 60 different portraits in 60 seconds. Anthony Kuzub, an engineer at CBC in Canada, pointed out the AI that’s involved with lighting a new studio, matching accent lights to the video monitor feeds. Matt Aaron is programming a fully-AI streaming station that’s playing “Broadcast Engineers Gangster Rap”. Are these just passing curiosities? Or are they signals of technologies and techniques to come for broadcasting and content creation?

Show notes: “The Legend of Chris Tarr” from suno.com https://suno.com/song/ecb43422-a9a0-4…

And another version of “The Legend of Chris Tarr” https://suno.com/song/9f924c42-c5b7-4… Matt Aaron’s AI-music streaming station https://broadcastengineeringgangsters…

And if Kirk had a radio station, KIRK, this could be the theme song https://suno.com/song/7e61f354-34e0-4…

Anthony mentioned ElevenLabs for text-to-speech and AI voice generation https://elevenlabs.io/

Anthony noted the Roland VC-1-DMX video lighting converter https://proav.roland.com/global/produ…

Live from the CCBE in Toronto, Canada – TWiRT Ep. 710

Posted on 20240904 by Anthony P. Kuzub

The CCBE conference encompasses two days of professional broadcast engineering career development. This includes carefully-chosen paper presentations, an expo hall, and an awards dinner and ceremony honoring leaders in the broadcast engineering profession. We got to meet with and converse with leaders in the Central Canadian Broadcast Engineers group, plus Canadian engineers and leading equipment manufacturers.

Celebration of Chris Tobin

Posted on 20210104 by Anthony P. Kuzub

Alex and I attended the Celebration of a fellow engineer Chris Tobin.

I was on the TWRIT show three time I think with him. Solid questions, great interviewer, great ethic. I watched Many hours of him sharing wisdom with the internet. Smart guy and busy busy busy doing the worlds most amazing project. Some of his brilliance was captured on this week in radio tech

He was taken too soon.