Ian Gormely

Oct 15, 2024 | kkmc.substack.com | Ian Gormely

Japandroids are calling it quits. The Vancouver duo’s fourth album, Fate & Alcohol out this Friday, will be the band’s last. I reviewed it for Exclaim! — it’s pretty great — calling it “a fitting end to one of Canada's most inspiring and singular bands from the past 15 years.”Notorious road dogs, they won’t be touring the record, making their show at Toronto’s Phoenix Theatre all the way back in 2018 their last (sadly, I was not there).

May 29, 2024 | vectorinstitute.ai | Ian Gormely

By Arber KacolljaThe Vector Institute’s recent Computer Vision (CV) workshop brought together members of the Vector research community to showcase and discuss new work in the field. Recent years have seen a surge of interest in generative modeling across the CV research community, where machine learning is used to analyze and extract information from images and videos, impacting a wide range of industries.

Mar 4, 2024 | kkmc.substack.com | Ian Gormely

“Heart on My Sleeve,” last year’s viral Drake and the Weeknd collab that wasn’t, was the music industry’s first big public reckoning with artificial intelligence’s potential for disruption. Created by someone named ghostwriter977, who trained an AI model on tracks from both artists, it raised many intellectual property questions around ownership when a new song like “Heart on My Sleeve” is created by training an algorithm on old — and copyrighted — music from the artist they’re trying to emulate.

Dec 14, 2023 | exclaim.ca | Ian Gormely

With Thermal and distraction4everPublished Dec 14, 2023DEBBY FRIDAY was beaming as she took the stage at Velvet Undergound on Wednesday night — and why wouldn't she be? After earning plaudits for her debut album GOOD LUCK in the spring, the genre polymath won this year's Polaris Music Prize, played a string of international gigs and garnered further year end praise. Now she was capping off this whirlwind year with a hometown gig that doubled as a victory lap.

Dec 4, 2023 | exclaim.ca | Ian Gormely

With Miss Grit Published Dec 04, 2023At first blush, Nation of Language and Miss Grit make for odd touring partners. The former are classicists giving new clothes to past pleasures, while the latter is more an iconoclast prepping for the singularity.