A new album is being released today (February 25) in protest at the UK government’s plans to use AI companies use copyrighted work to train their algorithms. The conceptual twist? It’s entirely silent.
Featuring recordings of dormant studios and performance spaces, it’s entitled Is This What We Want? Although it only contains twelve ‘tracks’, more than 1,000 musicians have been involved in the project including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Tori Amos, Hans Zimmer and Annie Lennox. It’s understood one of the twelve tracks was recorded in Bush’s own studio, and the iconic British artist has issued a simple statement alongside the album: “In the music of the future, will our voices go unheard?
