Lauren Harman has been appointed president, film/TV licensing for Silo Music. A music industry vet of over 17 years, Harman will bring her sync expertise and the amalgamation of her many relationships in the music, film and advertising communities to Silo, where she will oversee creative pitching and A&R.
Harman began her career at Zync Music in 2005 and began signing indie bands such as Beach House and Grizzly Bear. She left Zync in 2009 to start an independent music licensing company called Lip Sync Music. There, she signed artists such as Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings and their Daptone Records, Passion Pit, Local Natives, Aloe Blacc, Dillon Francis, Cults, The Naked & Famous and many more.
After 10 years at Lip Sync, she sold it to music publisher Anthem Entertainment. She then went on to run the sync department for Mass Appeal Records (owned by Nas,) working with music by artists such as Run The Jewels, DJ Shadow and Pusha T. While there, she hired Silo to do film/TV remixes, leading to this gig.
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.โs 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, โWeโve made it our mission to unearth the worldโs top AI artistsโit 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. Itโs 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, โWe 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.โ
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 artistsโ backgrounds are... Read More