Brian Fauteux

Brian Fauteux

@brianfauteux.bsky.social

Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board. Music in Orbit now available: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper

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Centre for Society, Technology and Values @uofwaterloo
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Cdn #musicians are suing a US #AI #music platform for exploiting their works as training data, exemplifying the danger that the tech could pose to their livelihoods + the need for regulation, argue @brianfauteux.bsky.social, @adewaard.bsky.social & Brianne Selman theconversation.com/ai-music-law...

theconversation.comAI music lawsuits raise questions about American companies and Canadian artsA recent survey of working musicians in Canada points to a growing discontent about AI in music, and points to how we could gain a music industry that allows Canadian music to flourish.
Brian Fauteux
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Beyond the lawsuit issues like the flooding of platforms by AI music remain. We need to be able to filter this content out; the online streaming act should be revived and expanded; platforms should be built and regulated in Canada; and industry concentration needs to be adressed

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Michael Rancic
@therewasnosound.bsky.social

"The majority of survey responses indicate a clear line between creativity and the type of music production encouraged by a platform like Suno."

Brian Fauteux@brianfauteux.bsky.social

We went a little bit longer on the SOCAN and Suno lawsuit for @theconversation.com, with some notes about the larger issues at play with respect to genAI and music in Canada and what sort of solutions we'd like to see: theconversation.com/ai-music-law...

theconversation.comAI music lawsuits raise questions about American companies and Canadian artsA recent survey of working musicians in Canada points to a growing discontent about AI in music, and points to how we could gain a music industry that allows Canadian music to flourish.
Brian Fauteux
@brianfauteux.bsky.social

Our public infrastructure in music project is ramping up (@cult_cap on twitter) and we've thus far completed a survey with musicians in Canada. There are lots of findings to share, but one initial result is that 87% of respondents view AI in music negatively: ca.billboard.com/business/tec...

ca.billboard.comUniversity of Alberta Study Finds 87% of Canadian Musicians View Generative AI ‘Negatively’The Western Canadian university surveyed 263 Canadian musicians about their thoughts on AI’s rampant rise and the use of streaming services as an artistic tool.
Brian Fauteux
@brianfauteux.bsky.social

Some good quotes: "avoiding like the plague," "I would rather it didn't exist," "everything they make is shit," "unfollow venues/artists who use them," "completely disgusts me in every possible way," "ew no," "fuck it"

Brian Fauteux
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A lot of this comes from chapter 6 of Music in Orbit, which details the licensing of satellite radio in Canada and what it meant for Canadian music. While re-reading, I found a typo that will haunt me for the rest of my life. 👍 www.ucpress.edu/books/music-...

ucpress.eduMusic in Orbit by Brian Fauteux - PaperScholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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CJSR 88.5FM
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🏆Help select the winners for our 2026 volunteer awards! Including: 🏅Best new show 🏅Best host 🏅Favourite show Take 5 minutes to fill out the Listener Survey form to tell us what YOU love, hate and are lukewarm on. Submission deadline: July 10, 2026 forms.gle/BFvYrf1uw68U...

forms.gleCJSR Listener Survey 2026You listen to us all year long...now it's time to turn the tables! We want to hear from YOU about what, on CJSR, you love, hate and are lukewarm on. We TRULY want to hear your feedback...so we can ...

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Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦
@gregorytaylor.bsky.social

Pleased to see this out in the world. Perhaps of value for those teaching media industries courses this fall. All efforts made to be current but, of course, there have been two or three further upheavals since this article went through final revisions last month. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

academic.oup.comCanadian Media Industries Policy in the Streaming EraAbstract. The traditional structure of the Canadian media industries has been upended by technological, political, and global economic forces in the 2020s.

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Brian Fauteux
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We're doing a project on public infrastructure for music in Canada and doing a final call for musicians to participate in a survey on musicmaking at this particular moment. If you'd like to do this, please email me at: fauteux@ualberta.ca. Or pls share with others who may be!

Brian Fauteux
@brianfauteux.bsky.social

We're doing a project on public infrastructure for music in Canada and doing a final call for musicians to participate in a survey on musicmaking at this particular moment. If you'd like to do this, please email me at: fauteux@ualberta.ca. Or pls share with others who may be!

Brian Fauteux
@brianfauteux.bsky.social

It's anonymous, your email will just be added to a private list that sends the survey out. But there is also an option to be interviewed too, which is the last question on the survey.

Brian Fauteux
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Kicking off in about 20 minutes: www.youtube.com/live/CtQhM0I...

youtube.comQAM: Judith Klassen - What is Canadian? Popular Music and National IdentityYouTube video by Questions About Music at the University of Alberta
Brian Fauteux@brianfauteux.bsky.social

Tomorrow, the next talk in the Questions About Music series is taking place. I'll be speaking with Dr. Judith Klassen, curator at the Canadian Museum of History, about the challenges of curating popular music. In-person and live streamed at 4pm MT: www.ualberta.ca/en/music/con...

ualberta.caWhat is Canadian? Popular Music and National Identity | Judith Klassen
Brian Fauteux
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It feels good to finally be fully into the public infrastructure for music project. A survey is being/about to be sent to about 2000 musicians in Canada. If that's you, please consider filling it out, I promise it will be used for good ❤️

Brian Fauteux
@brianfauteux.bsky.social

One year since Music In Orbit came out, and I feel like you get to do a year anniversary post and then have to shut up about it forever. Still available via UC Press and locally at Audreys. Below are a few select posts and interviews I've done about the book since it has come out

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Brian Fauteux
@brianfauteux.bsky.social

One year since Music In Orbit came out, and I feel like you get to do a year anniversary post and then have to shut up about it forever. Still available via UC Press and locally at Audreys. Below are a few select posts and interviews I've done about the book since it has come out

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Brian Fauteux
@brianfauteux.bsky.social

One year since Music In Orbit came out, and I feel like you get to do a year anniversary post and then have to shut up about it forever. Still available via UC Press and locally at Audreys. Below are a few select posts and interviews I've done about the book since it has come out

Brian Fauteux
@brianfauteux.bsky.social

I had figured out how to find solid blocks of writing when the kids were pretty young, but, like often home sick and stuff. I'm finding it hard to figure this out for this new phase of after-work and weekend activities. I'm thinking big things like, "maybe a white board?"

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The Quietus
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"I must have been 16 when this album came out and it was such a soundtrack to my youth. There are lots of other records from around that era that define that time for me, but I think as a body of work it’s pretty much flawless." Jamie Campbell Bower on Bloc Party - Silent Alarm buff.ly/fB93jrb

Brian Fauteux
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Happy #WorldRadioDay. Have you seen this, have you heard about this?

Brian Fauteux@brianfauteux.bsky.social

MUSIC IN ORBIT: SATELLITE RADIO IN THE STREAMING SPACE AGE is *officially* out today with @ucpress.bsky.social. Available in a number of formats and you can now get 30% off with the promo code: UCPSAVE30 www.ucpress.edu/books/music-...

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Jeff Sharlet
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Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.comAnthropic AI safety researcher quits with 'world in peril' warningIt comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.
Brian Fauteux
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Leaning into something that is celebratory, flawless, colourful, joyful, powerful, beautiful, etc., etc., is the right move when Trump and Vance and Kid Rock and Rob Schneider or whoever are taking their ball and going home.

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Charles Rusnell
@charlesrusnell.bsky.social

To set the record straight, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said today that about 30 per cent, or 1M, Albertans support independence. This is false. The latest IPSOS poll found about 15 per cent support for separation from Canada when those polled were informed about the "real-world consequences."