Avicii documentary, I’m Tim, to premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film FestivalA new documentary charting the life of late DJ and producer Avicii is set to premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
The film, titled Avicii – I’m Tim, is said (via DJ Mag) to explore the early life of the Swedish music legend, whose real name was Tim Bergling, as well as the events that led to his suicide in 2018 at the age of 28.

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Directed by Henrik Burman, the documentary has a runtime of a little over two hours, and features interviews with fellow DJ David Guetta, Nile Rodgers – who played on Avicii’s 2013 track Lay Me Down – and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, who sang on Heaven, the second track from his posthumous 2019 album, TIM.
“Before there was Avicii, there was just Tim,” reads the film’s synopsis on the Tribeca Film Festival website. “For the first time through his own words, witness the journey of a shy but prodigious musical talent who would soon become one of the defining artists of his generation.”
Avicii – I’m Tim was first announced in 2021, and was originally intended for release in 2023, but was pushed back.
Avicii’s sudden and tragic death in 2018 shocked the EDM community and wider music world, and his music is still hugely popular six years later. At the time of writing, his Spotify page boasts nearly 38 million monthly listeners, and his mega-hit Wake Me Up surpassed 2 billion streams on the platform in August last year.

Alongside Avicii – I’m Tim, the Tribeca Film Festival, which takes place in New York City between 5 and 16 June, will also see the premiere of a documentary telling the story of legendary Detroit techno producer Carl Craig.
For more info, head to the Tribeca Film Festival website.
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“We aim to make this an indispensable tool for DJs, independent artists and producers”: New AI stem separation technology secures UK government fundingAudioStrip, a company specialising in source separation technology via machine learning (AI), has been announced as one of six organisations to be awarded grant funding from the government.
A total of £1 million is being awarded to companies as part of an AI in the Music Industry Innovate UK Fund. The assessors of the competition agreed that AudioStrip’s Music-AI innovation would “greatly benefit and strengthen the UK Music Industry” and that “the rewards could be significant”.

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According to a press release from AudioStrip, the aim of the competition is to advance the development of Artificial Intelligence products and services within the global music supply chain which benefits the UK Music Sector. Winners must collaborate with industry stakeholders to unlock the full potential of AI while supporting and uplifting the music industry to drive long term creative and commercial success.
AudioStrip is strengthening its partnership with Queen Mary University of London, which will collaborate with the brand on its project to develop new state-of-the-art AI in music source separation. This separates the individual vocals and instruments within a music file.
Basil Woods, co-founder and CEO of AudioStrip, says: “This technology is sweeping the music industry. AudioStrip will offer more advanced tools for precise separation of individual elements in audio files.
“By partnering with Queen Mary, we aim to elevate music source separation technology beyond industry benchmarks, making it an indispensable tool for DJs, independent artists, producers, and licensors. Our goal is to automatically identify musical elements from any given song – including vocal, instrumental, drums, bass, piano, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and synthesiser – and extract them into independent tracks without losing quality.”
Simon Dixon, Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music at Queen Mary University of London, adds: “Our Centre for Digital Music has grown into a world-leading, multidisciplinary research group, responsible for numerous spinout companies and business partnerships with companies large and small.”
Find out more about AudioStrip.
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Congress eyes AM Radio mandates while ignoring compensation for ArtistsWill radio’s free ridee ever end? Chris Castle discusses U.S. Senator Markey’s proposal to equip all vehicles with AM radios, highlighting concerns over its impact on car manufacturing and fair. Continue reading
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EDU DIY Snare Drum module from Erica Synths The latest addition to the mki x es.EDU brings some classic snare sounds to the table. 

“There’s never been a more rehearsed or fine-tuned Grimes set”: Grimes pokes fun at herself during Coachella Weekend 2Grimes saw the lighter side of her less-than-successful Coachella DJ set ahead of her performance during the festival’s second weekend.

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For those who aren’t aware, Grimes’ set on weekend 1 of the festival was plagued by “major technical difficulties” that left her screaming in frustration. The DJ apologised to fans at the time, saying: “All my tracks are double tempo and I can’t do the math. They’re borderline un-mixable, so the rest of my set won’t be mixes but it’ll still be fun.”
Grimes later issued a statement on X explaining that the mistake occurred because she’d outsourced the bpm on her tracks, and that she’ll “personally organise all the files next week”.
Before her show on Sunday, the musician assured fans that she’ll “cap the disarray at a maximum ten seconds per song,” adding, “I don’t know if there’s ever been a more rehearsed or fine-tuned Grimes set.”

Whose ready for Coachella weekend 2?
I will cap the disarray at a maximum ten seconds per song – idk if there's ever been a more rehearsed or fine tuned grimes set
And I made another blackpink remix for good measure pic.twitter.com/SKG4dqU0Ex
— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 (@Grimezsz) April 19, 2024

True to her words, the DJ’s performance last weekend went without a hitch, and was even accompanied by some good old fashioned self-deprecation that poked fun at her Weekend 1 set.
A ‘Breaking News’ style video was played, featuring a bunch of masked characters mocking her screwup the week before with comments like “she can’t DJ.”
Watch the video below.

#Grimes makes fun of her own Weekend 1 set in her Weekend 2 set intro.
Coachella coverage: https://t.co/QsapCPtBjF pic.twitter.com/wC9uvPBlg5
— Dorothy Elder (@dorthelder) April 21, 2024

In related news, DJ Michael Bibi has spoken about playing his first show at Coachella since undergoing cancer treatment and the “mixed emotions” the experience brought on.
“It was emotional, it was intense — there was happiness, there was some sadness. And there was just a huge range of emotions coming through,” said Bibi, who was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer last Summer.
“It actually gives you a sense of purpose again, moving and coming back out into reality and seeing people,” he said. “Because I’ve been kind of sheltering a lot, because of the treatments, I’ve had to kind of isolate myself.”
“So getting back out into the world and connecting with human beings is a good feeling.”
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Ami Sampler Is A Free 8-bit Sampler Inspired By The Commodore Amiga
Astriid released the Ami Sampler, a free 8-bit sampler inspired by the sound of the Commodore Amiga personal computer from 1985. The sampler is available on the Astriiddev GitHub, and it’s a Windows, macOS, and Linux release for VST3, AU, and LV2.                 The retro interface for the Ami [...]
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beyerdynamic launch DT 770 PRO X Limited Edition In celebration of their 100th anniversary, beyerdynamic have updated one of their most popular headphone designs. 

Michael Bibi on playing Coachella with “mixed emotions” following cancer treatment: “It actually gives you a sense of purpose again”Michael Bibi has opened up about playing his first show at Coachella since undergoing cancer treatment and the “mixed emotions” the experience evoked.
Bibi’s set at the Indio, California event last weekend (13 April) marks his first performance of the year. The London DJ was diagnosed with CNS Lymphoma, a rare form of brain cancer last Summer, and was forced to cancel all of his gigs while receiving treatment.

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Prior to the show, Bibi posted on X: “One year ago I was given a 30% chance of survival, today I’m packing to perform at Coachella… Never give up on your hopes or dreams.”

One year ago I was given a 30% chance of survival, today I’m packing to perform at @coachella ….never give up on your hopes or dreams
— Michael Bibi (@MichaelBibi1) April 8, 2024

Speaking to BBC Newsbeat after the event, Bibi said: “It was emotional, it was intense – there was happiness, there was some sadness. And there was just a huge range of emotions coming through.”
The musician added that the Coachella gig marked the longest distance he’s travelled since treatment, stating: “That was a big step in itself, just getting on a plane and coming to the US. And then adding on top of that, doing my first show and coming to a festival, it was a lot.”
“But it actually gives you a sense of purpose again, moving and coming back out into reality and seeing people. Because I’ve been kind of sheltering a lot, because of the treatments, I’ve had to kind of isolate myself. So getting back out into the world and connecting with human beings is a good feeling.”
Bibi also shared that while he’s currently “physically well”, he’s still dealing with what he’s been through “day by day”.
“It’s just a kind of a mental processing,” he said. “Just kind of mentally catching up on everything that I’ve been through. Because I think when you get into a really intense situation, you kind of go into fight or flight mode.
“And you just have to get through that moment and period of time and you’re not really processing everything that’s happening to you.”
Elsewhere, Bibi also commented on Grimes’ DJing fluke at Coachella, saying: “Everyone’s been in bad situations when they’re DJing. I’ve been in situations where everything stops working or the left deck doesn’t work and the right deck just doesn’t do what you want to do.”
“You just have to try and adapt and do the best you can with a bad situation, which is horrible when it does happen.”
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New earbuds by Teenage Engineering-founded firm Nothing feature ChatGPT integrationNothing has officially announced the Nothing Ear and Nothing Ear (a), the brand’s latest flagship earbuds featuring a cool new feature: ChatGPT integration.
Users can choose between the $149 Nothing Ear, which is “built for audiophiles seeking the best sound quality” and the $99 Nothing Ear (a), that’s catered to those looking for the “ultimate daily audio companion.”

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As explained by the Teenage Engineering-founded firm at launch, Nothing will “enhance its overall user experience with industry-first ChatGPT integrations in its audio and smartphone products.”
Through the new integration, users with the latest Nothing OS and ChatGPT installed on their Nothing phones will be able to pinch their Nothing earbuds to speak and ask questions to the world’s hottest AI tool. For now, the feature only works with the higher-end Nothing Phone (2); Full integration will be available for all Nothing and CMF products in June.
“By integrating ChatGPT with Nothing earbuds, including the new Nothing Ear and Ear (a), and with Nothing OS, we’ve taken our first steps towards change, and there’s more to come,” says Carl Pei, CEO and Co-Founder of Nothing.
Image: Nothing
Besides ChatGPT integrations, the Nothing Ear and Ear (a) also feature a bunch of hardware and software upgrades from their predecessors.
The Ear, for one, boasts Nothing’s “most advanced driver system to date” with a custom 11mm ceramic dynamic driver for extra richness and crispier highs. Nothing has also improved the dual chamber design from that of Ear (2) with two additional vents to improve airflow, delivering a clearer sound.
New personalisation options are offered as well — including a feature that lets you create a personal sound profile for each genre of music, as well as a bass enhancing feature. In terms of battery life, the Ear is said to last a cool 25 percent longer than Ear (2), offering up to 40.5 hours of playback (without ANC) after a full charge with the charging case or 8.5 hours of non-stop playback.
The Nothing Ear (a), meanwhile, is billed as a more compact and cheaper sibling to the Nothing Ear. Both earbuds do however share the same Active Noise Cancellation feature — Nothing’s most effective and intelligent yet, muffling up to 45dB of noise, twice that of the Ear 2. Both models are IP54 dust and water-resistant as well, though the Ear’s case edges out the Ear (a) a little with an IP55 rating compared to the latter’s IPX2 rating.
The cheaper Ear (a) also comes without the wireless charging feature found on the Nothing Ear, though fast charging is still available.
And for those looking to add a splash of colour to their Nothing setup, the Ear (a) arrives in an eye-catching yellow finish (remember a certain Playdate video game console?), in addition to the usual black and white finishes.
Learn more at Nothing.
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Keeping Alive The Future Of Cars, 1980s StyleHere at Hackaday we’re a varied bunch of writers, some of whom have careers away from this organ, and others whose work also appears on the pages of other publications in different fields. One such is our colleague [Lewin Day], and he’s written a cracking piece for The Autopian about the effort to keep an obscure piece of American automotive electronic history alive. We think of big-screen control panels in cars as a new phenomenon, but General Motors was fitting tiny Sony Trinitron CRTs to some models back in the late 1980s. If you own one of these cars the chances are the CRT is inoperable if you’ve not encountered [Jon Morlan] and his work repairing and restoring them.
Lewin’s piece goes into enough technical detail that we won’t simply rehash it here, but it’s interesting to contrast the approach of painstaking repair with that of replacement or emulation. It would be a relatively straightforward project to replace the CRT with a modern LCD displaying the same video, and even to use a modern single board computer to emulate much of a dead system. But we understand completely that to many motor enthusiasts that’s not the point, indeed it’s the very fact it has a frickin’ CRT in the dash that makes the car.We’ll probably never drive a 1989 Oldsmobile Toronado. But we sure want to if it’s got that particular version of the future fitted.
Lewin’s automotive writing is worth watching out for. He once brought us to a motorcycle chariot.

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Manual Supports for 3D Printing[MakerSpace] wanted to 3D print an RFID card holder. On one side is a slot for a card and on the other side has recesses for the RFID antenna. They used these to control access to machines and were milling them out using a CNC machine. Since there were no flat surfaces, he had to turn on supports in the slicer, right? No. He does use supports, but not in the way you might imagine.
Inspired by creating cast iron using sand casting, he decided to first 3D print a reusable “core” using PETG. This core will support future prints that use PLA. When printing the actual item, the printer lays down the first few layers and pauses. This allows you to stick the core in and resume the print. After the print completes, you can remove the core, and the results look great, as you can see in the video below.

While the PLA doesn’t stick well to the PETG, it can stick a little, but using a glue coating as a release agent solved that problem. This is one of those ideas that once you see it, it seems obvious, but it probably isn’t something you’ve thought about doing until you see it at least once.
There are a few other tricks in the video. For example, the core is a little larger than necessary, so there is a tab that sticks out. This makes it easy to tape down to the bed and also helps when you try to remove it from the PLA print. The results are great, and it makes us want to revisit our abandoned badge holder project from years ago.
Some people never print flat. Others do very specific support structures at key points. It seems there’s always multiple ways to print the seemingly unprintable.

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This camera trades pictures for AI poetryThe Poetry Camera takes the concept of photography to new heights by generating poetry based on the visuals it encounters.
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Relatively Universal ROM Programmer Makes Retro Tech Hacking AccessibleThere’s treasures hidden in old technology, and you deserve to be able to revive it. Whether it’s old personal computer platforms, vending machines, robot arms, or educational kits based on retro platforms, you will need to work with parallel EEPROM chips at some point. [Anders Nielsen] was about to do just that, when he found out that a TL866, a commonly used programmer kit for such ROMs, would cost entire $70 – significantly raising the budget of any parallel ROM-involving hacking. After months of work, he is happy to bring us a project – the Relatively Universal ROM Programmer, an open-source parallel ROM programmer board that you can easily assemble or buy.
Designed in the Arduino shield format, there’s a lot of care and love put into making this board as universal as reasonably possible, so that it fits any of the old flash chips you might want to flash – whether it’s an old UV-erasable ROM that wants a voltage up to 30 V to be written, or the newer 5 V-friendly chips. You can use ICs with pin count from 24 to 32 pins, it’s straightforward to use a ZIF socket with this board, there’s LED indication and silkscreen markings so that you can see and tweak the programming process, and it’s masterfully optimized for automated assembly.
You can breadboard this programmer platform as we’ve previously covered, you can assemble our own boards using the open-source files, and if you don’t want to do either, you can buy the assembled boards from [Anders Nielsen] too! The software is currently work in progress, since that’s part of the secret sauce that makes the $70 programmers tick. You do need to adjust the programming voltage manually, but that can be later improved with a small hardware fix. In total, if you just want to program a few ROM chips, this board saves you a fair bit of money.