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Tom Gray

@MrTomGray

Chair of @IvorsAcademy. Member of Gomez, MU & PRS Council. Director of UK Music. #BrokenRecord founder. A working songwriter and composer (just about).
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Tom Gray @MrTomGray
Art started in caves.

Talking bollocks didn’t start on the internet but thanks for helping to refine it.
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The Pope is making a claim about what art is, independent of who gets to make it. But my point is about access, and on that front, AI tools have genuinely lowered the barrier for people who never had the training, money, time, or physical ability to make images, music, or writing through traditional means. Someone with no formal art education, someone with a disability that makes traditional mediums hard to use, someone in a place with no art schools or materials, these tools let them give form to an idea they couldn't otherwise externalize. Dismissing that output as categorically not art, full stop, risks devaluing something that functions as real creative expression and real access for those people.
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Tom Gray @MrTomGray
At this point this ought to be a fully codified philosophy.

Music as a act of human resistance.

Come on people!
Tom Gray @MrTomGray Jun 5, 2023
We need to pull music off the grid, let it be the time it is and love our bum notes.

Dehumanising music was a perilous error born of cost-cutting coupled with unnecessary technological accuracy.

Time to let our nature evade the inevitability of AI.

Make a beautiful mess.
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Tom Gray @MrTomGray
So we finally got it done.

Seven years later.

Dignity for working UK songwriters.

@IvorsAcademy #FixStreaming
Tom Gray @MrTomGray Dec 3, 2024
I first floated the idea of a ‘songwriter per diem’ at an Ivors meeting six or seven years ago. I was used to receiving them as a touring musician and it seemed an easy solution to the problem of rising costs.

It’s been amazing to watch the idea have a life and become a demand across the industry.
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