Technology has consistently played a pivotal role in shaping how people create, consume and distribute music around the world. Since the late 1800s, when an American electrical engineer named Elisha Gray invented the musical telegraph, the emergence of synthesizers and all the way to the current age of artificial intelligence (AI), music has always been one of the first to benefit from digital breakthroughs.

With the help of veteran music executive Narciso Chan Jr.—longtime general manager of Sony Music and now Chief Executive Officer of his own thriving artist management and music label, Curve Entertainment—The Manila Times Entertainment explores the tremendous impact of AI on this creative industry on a universal scale and its earliest effects in the Philippine setting.