LG’s forthcoming ‘smart home AI agent’ plays music based on your mood when you come homeLG Electronics will be unveiling its smart home AI agent at CES 2024 this January, where the brand will reveal further details about the hub and its capabilities – including what it can offer musically.
The AI agent has a built-in camera, speaker and various sensors to gather real-time data. It greets its owner at the front door when they return home, and can play music or other content to suit their mood.

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Despite scepticism, we’ve seen a huge boom in AI within the music industry over recent years, including its assistance in various production tools and even music playback such as Spotify’s AI DJ, for example. We have not, however, seen anything quite like this tool yet.
This initial information has been shared by the official LG Newsroom, revealing that the agent boasts robotic, AI and multi-modal technologies that enable it to move, learn, comprehend and engage in complex conversations.
It is branded as “an all-around home manager and companion rolled into one”, set to deliver LG’s “Zero Labor Home” vision. It has a ‘two-legged’ wheel design, and will verbally interact with users and express emotions through movements. The agent can assist with a plethora of tasks including gathering data on temperature and indoor air quality, act as a pet monitor and even a security guard.
It can even patrol the home when no one is there, sending notifications to the user’s smartphone if it finds an open window or any appliances left on. Most notably, the AI agent greets its user when they arrive home and assess their emotions by analysing their voice and facial expressions. By doing so, it can select music which it deciphers as applicable for their mood.
“Our groundbreaking smart home AI agent combines cutting-edge autonomous mobility and AI technologies with advanced communication capabilities and services to help free customers from household chores,” says Lyu Jae-cheol, president of LG Electronics Home Appliance & Air Solution Company. “A smart life solution company, LG will continue to help customers experience a smarter, more enjoyable life at home.”
Visitors to CES 2024 can see the smart home AI agent at the company’s booth (#16008, Las Vegas Convention Center) from the 9-12 January. Find out more at CES.
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Floating Knobs debuts with Cuisine, a 12-track performance sequencerBerlin brand Floating Knobs has kicked off 2024 with the launch of its first-ever product, a new 38 HP 12-track performance sequencer, Cuisine.

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Cuisine lets you create “tasty rhythms, juicy melodies and sparkling modulation” through “intricate rhythmic arrangements, organic patterns and polyrhythms”, the brand says.
Small in size with chunky, retro computer keyboard-style buttons, the sequencer lets you create rhythms up to 64 steps in length, which can be freely assigned to control drum voices, musical notes, or CV modulation.
You can have up to eight patterns per track, and 12 tracks per project. There are 16 slots available for saving your projects.

Clocking flexibility is a standout feature of Cuisine. Tracks can operate independently or sync together, offering opportunities for customised interactions and the formation of polyrhythms.
When it comes to melodies, Cuisine provides a personalised scale and transpose system that makes for the swift creation of melodies and chord progressions. There’s also a note override function.
Floating Knobs Cuisine makes for an inspiring production workflow, thanks to its small size allowing for use with just one hand, and its intriguing rhythm functions. There are three rhythm generators – Euclidean, polymetric and polyrhythmic. You can manipulate these organic patterns by adjusting size, offset, and steps. There’s also velocity control for more expressive sequencing.
With Midi In and Out, multiple Gate outputs, and CV connections, Cuisine seamlessly integrates with Eurorack modular setups, allowing for triggering, gating, and modulation. It’s offered as a standalone unit convertible to Eurorack.
This is the first product to be launched by Floating Knobs, which was recently founded by Dorian Largen, a French creative technician and instrument builder, and Ioana Vreme Moser, a Romanian sound artist. It plans to release two more modular racks in 2024, a quad complex LFO called Lovemake and a quad wavetable oscillator called Settlement.
Cuisine is available to buy for €450 from the Floating Knobs website. Shipping starts later this month.
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Try these apps to reach your New Year’s resolutions in 2024As the new year approaches, many of us are reminded of all the things we accomplished this year — getting a promotion, being more productive or even showing up to places on time — as well as things we failed to do. (There may or may not be a barely used foldable WalkingPad collecting dust […]
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BandLab CEO, Meng Ru Kuok: ‘I think there will be over 1 billion music creators by 2030, potentially even sooner.’MBW and Goldman Sachs team up for our first Entrepreneur Of The Year award – and BandLab's co-founder picks up the prize
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Universal Music UK’s Selina Webb and songwriter Carla Marie Williams awarded MBEs in New Year Honours list; Don Black, Paul Burger and more also recognizedWebb awarded MBE for services to the music industry, neurodiversity, and charity
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Announcing The Passing Of Bram Inscore, Producer & Songwriter"It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our beloved Bram Inscore, who ended his life after a hard fought battle with depression. Bram was a “musician’s musician,” a producer, composer and multi- instrumentalist, who lent his talents to artists such as Beck, Troye Sivan and BTS.  Selfless as a human and generous as a collaborator, he ingeniously served the music but never his own ego.  Deep compassion and dry wit were embedded into everything he did, though he never sought praise or approval.  He was truly a unique spirit and though his soul has left his body, it will live forever in his music."

From his family, wife and friends.

Bram Inscore’s producer and songwriter credits include songs for the likes of Troye Sivan, Claud, BTS, Rina Sawayama, Big Freedia, Andy Grammer, Allie X, Moses Sumney, Mayer Hawthorne, Duncan Laurence, SuperM, RMR, Sophie Meiers, Cola Boyy, John Carroll Kirby, Ben Platt, The Veronicas, Chloe x Halle, Greyson Chance, Morgan Saint, and more. He also scored the film Sierra Burgess Is A Loser, and toured/performed with the likes of Beck, Thurston Moore, Charlotte Gainsburg, Twin Shadow, and more. Inscore’s full credits and discography available upon request. 

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