Martin Clancy is an Irish musician and songwriter behind several bands including The Witness Protection Programme. In the early 1980s Clancy formed Irish band

In Tua Nua In Tua Nua are an Irish rock band. The band is named after a mythical Hawaiian island which the band came across in a 1920s edition of the Saturday Evening Post. Biography The group was formed by Leslie Dowdall, Jack Dublin, Vinnie Kilduf ...

alongside Leslie Dowdall, Jack Dublin, Vinny Kilduff, Ivan O'Shea, Paul Byrne and

Steve Wickham Steve Wickham is an Irish musician. Originally from Ballyfermot, Dublin, but calling Sligo home, Wickham was a founding member of In Tua Nua (left in 1985 replaced by Aingeala de Burca) and played violin on the classic U2 song " Sunday Blo ...

. After signing to U2's record label, Mother, in 1984 and producing several hits including a cover of

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's " Somebody to Love", In Tua Nua officially disbanded in 1990. Clancy embarked on a series of musical projects including acting as manager and producer of Jack Lukeman. Clancy served as

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for the Seaport Music Festival from 2010-2012, during which he had a series of top 20 hits in the US Billboard Dance Charts. With Steve Dima, Clancy established Seaport Music Records. Clancy earned his PhD in 2022, focusing on the ethics of

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(AI) in music. Shortly afterwards, he released his first book, “Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem” via publisher

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. Edited by Clancy, the book contains essays on topics such as robotics, ethics, music in extended reality, and intellectual property and the law. Clancy is also the chair of the

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE ...

Global AI Ethics Committee and has addressed the UN and EU about AI’s impact on the arts. He is also an

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certified trainer, teaching up-and-coming DJs and electronic musicians how to use the software for sound engineering, music theory, mixing, live performance, remixing, mastering, and more.

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