Original music and artist licensing company The Music Playground (TMP) and production music library The Diner have brought Jeff Stevenson aboard as executive producer.
Before joining TMP/The Diner, Stevenson spent two-plus years as the executive producer for Nashville-based boutique music house Howling Music where he handled both client relations and creative production on everything from original music projects to catalog licensing to sound design and sonic branding. Before that he worked as a production manager for Sorted Noise, a sync-focused production company based in Nashville. Over the years, Stevenson has produced works for brands like Capital One, The NFL, Marriott, American Express, Coinbase, Uber Eats, Indeed, Tanqueray, and Denny’s.
TMP and The Diner continued to expand their global efforts over the past year, including by partnering with MUXIC, the Music Tourism Office for the government of Mexico, to promote the development of local Latin talent and to represent the MUXIC catalog of artists for sync licensing. Another expansion has been opening a Mexico City-based sister creative studio for original music, El Patio de Musica.
Stevenson who has lived and worked in Mexico for the last 18 months, will remain based in Mexico City to support the MUXIC and El Patio de Musica initiatives to unite LATAM musical talent with creative sync opportunities. He will simultaneously bring his wealth of experience and knowledge to TMP’s expanding creative and business development endeavors in the advertising, film, and television markets, both in Mexico and across the United States.
The Gardening.club. Grows AI Talent Roster
The Gardening.club., the sister company to production house The Sweetshop, has assembled a lineup of eight new artificial intelligence (AI) artists. The ensemble of talent looks to redefine storytelling by fusing cutting-edge AI with human creativity. The Gardening.club.’s guiding rule is that AI is never just a substitute; it must enhance and expand creative vision.
The fresh cohort of AI artists will bring an extra dimension to the work already championed by futurist Tomas Roope, co-founder of The Gardening.club, along with AI artist and co-founder Jacqui Kenny whose collaborative projects with brands like Gucci, Google, OpenAI and Louis Vuitton have impacted both the art and commercial worlds.
Melanie Bridge, co-founder and CEO of The Sweetshop and co-Founder of The Gardening.club,, said, “We’ve made it our mission to unearth the world’s top AI artists—it was a mandate for us that each would be a brilliant storyteller with a unique voice. It was also crucial that their body of work demonstrated not only artistic vision but would seamlessly translate into the commercial world. It’s not common to see this level of mastery in AI artistry, and we believe our roster of eight represents the very best out there today.
Bridge continued, “We have also been working hard with copyright lawyers worldwide to develop a comprehensive system of protocols, that ensure we can confidently use AI in our commercial projects--we are very proud of this and believe it to be an industry first.”
Joining The Gardening.club are a group of talented artists who have already made waves as storytellers in the AI art world--Kenny, Floam World, Nathan Boey, Ethereal Moon, Junie Lau, Aashay Singh, YZA Voku, and KEZIAI. These artists’ backgrounds are... Read More