Lucas Cantor
Composer, author & music-technology investor
Lucas Cantor Santiago is an Emmy-winning composer, producer and music-technology investor. He has scored music for every Olympic Games since 2002, co-produced Lorde's cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and used AI to complete Schubert's Unfinished Symphony for Huawei, later staging it as a live orchestral premiere in London. He is a founder and general partner at Mindset MusicTech, a venture capital fund investing in music technology, and is the author of Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. On In The Blink Of AI, he discussed what AI actually is.
In their own words
From Lucas Cantor: “I Don’t Think Anybody Knows What AI Is” · In The Blink Of AII don’t think anybody knows what AI is.
Career
- Now Composer, author & music-technology investor
- From 2025 Co-founder & Managing Partner · Mindset MusicTech (Mindset Ventures)
- From 2002 Composer/music department (Emmy wins 2008, 2012) · NBC Olympics music department
Sources: mindset.ventures, lucascantormusic.com
Key moments
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- 0:00 Cold open
- 2:49 The AI hack: stem separation
- 4:14 Taylor Swift’s wedding
- 4:55 BIGSOUND, and the fear around AI in music
- 6:23 Why the purist argument falls apart
- 7:25 Tuning has drifted since the Renaissance
- 10:02 Composer, producer, author, investor
- 11:16 What Suno is, and the ethics problem
- 12:20 Why all music sounds better now
- 15:33 What it actually means to have your music stolen
Connections
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