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It sounds like someone imagining us

AI music platforms can fake a "Chinese" or "Indonesian" sound in seconds. But can they tell a guqin from a gamelan — or just the surface markers listeners expect? A university class tested two AI platforms and found plenty of the latter, very little of the former.

It sounds like someone imagining us

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Pravina Manoharan
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Pravina Manoharan

Pravina is an ethnomusicologist, musician and educator at Universiti Sains Malaysia. Trained in piano, gamelan and harmonium, her research interests range from popular music and cultural identity to community arts, postgraduate learning, and the representation of musical traditions in digital and AI-assisted spaces.