AI Meets Ancestry: African Musicians Harness Artificial Intelligence to Preserve and Reinvent Cultural Soundscapes

In a studio scented with coffee and filled with recording gear, Ethiopian musician Dawit Ketema, known as Mashela, experiments with a unique fusion — the wooden tones of the washint flute and the precision of digital synthesizers. His mission: to use artificial intelligence (AI) to preserve ancient sounds while creating new ones, building what he [...]