Hey everyone, I wanted to place this here for the community, which I will be sending out another post through Email, will be setting up something inside of the "classroom sections" soon, just slapping it first. - For a while now, I’ve been doing music feedback, guidance, mentoring, and strategy sessions through different spaces, including Recording Academy-related mentoring, Forte, Intro, Music Alliance, and other platforms under their umbrellas. I’m now starting to open that up directly through my own lane. These private sessions are for producers, composers, artists, and creators who want a more focused read on their music, direction, or next move. This can include: - Track feedback - music direction - creative focus - visual media readiness - Production guidance - Catalog direction - Career next steps - Structure - sound, and delivery notes - A clearer outside read on what may or may not be working This is not meant to be a generic “sounds good” call. It is more of a direct guidance session based on what I’ve learned from years of working behind the scenes in visual media, music, placements, production pipelines, creator development, and real client delivery. My goal has always been made simple: To help serious creators get clearer, avoid wasting time guessing, and understand what may need to shift in the music, direction, or the way they are approaching the work. - BOOK A SESSION HERE https://www.paintthenoise.com/cueopslabs - I’m putting it here first in case anyone in the PTN Pulse community needs that kind of direct read or guidance. -

Today @ 7pm - 8pm Chicago time https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/cnwmR79QRSe9-GxRqyXkxw Hosted by Nate Michalic. Focused on music for visual media, film, TV, trailers, and branded content. Submit purpose-driven cues built for picture. Email Submissions at: [email protected] by 1 hour before tonight's event! -

The deadline has come, and we received only a few submissions for this month’s Brief Room. Since this room is built around focused listening, critique, and comparing how different creators respond to the same direction, we are setting a 5-submission minimum, and at least 6-8 to be ideal for the session to run. So.......... tonight’s Brief Room will not take place. We are rolling “THE PHONE CALL” brief forward and will give everyone time to submit again. To those who already submitted, thank you. Your work carries over. - Check out the POST here for more info We want this room to be worth the time for everyone involved, so we are keeping it focused and intentional. More details on the next Brief Room date coming soon. -

- 📍 SIGNAL Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) have signed a new licensing agreement that will allow users to create AI-generated covers and remixes using licensed music. This is not just another AI lawsuit or settlement. This is one of the first major public moves toward commercial AI music creation inside a mainstream DSP ecosystem. According to Billboard, the agreement creates a framework where AI-generated reinterpretations of songs can legally exist using licensed rights infrastructure instead of unauthorized scraping. For creators, this matters because the industry is no longer only debating whether AI music is allowed. Now it is building systems to monetize it. - 📂 PATTERN The sequence is becoming clear: - Lawsuits established pressure - Settlements established licensing - Platforms are now building products around those licenses The conversation has shifted from: “Should AI use music?” to: “How do we commercially structure AI-generated music experiences?” Spotify is not treating AI as an outside disruption anymore. It is integrating it into the platform layer itself. - 🚨 PRESSURE POINTS - Creator consent ambiguity. How much approval power will artists actually have over AI reinterpretations of their work? - Revenue split uncertainty. How will royalties be divided between original creators, platforms, AI systems, and derivative users? - Identity dilution. AI covers may blur the line between fandom, parody, remix culture, and synthetic replication. - Catalog dependency. These systems only work because major catalogs already exist to train, reference, and reinterpret from. - Independent creator visibility. Large rights-holders may benefit first while smaller creators struggle to access the same infrastructure. - ⚖️ CULTURE CHECK - FOR OR AGAINST CREATORS? Right now, this sits in the middle. For creators :it potentially creates: - new licensing revenue - new discovery mechanisms - new remix participation economies

Hey everyone, just wanted to say thank you to everyone in this group. And thank you to all that have been attending an sharing their music in the live reviews! Every week it’s great to just sit down and listen to everyone’s music, chat and connect with everyone in the group. Y’all have been bringing heat consistently each week and I’m so honored to get the opportunity to listen and vibe with y’all! Wishing everyone much success and continued wins! Let’s get it!