Here, here! "The point I’m trying to make is that it’s the musical virtues that we lost when ’80s drums took over — a live relationship between musicians, including speeding up and slowing down; air and sweat and heartbreak in the room; brilliant mistakes, accidental overtones; human frailty; unplastic soul; the good stuff — that’s what’s being gladly eliminated now. The usual litany of analogue intangibles."
I've seen several signs recently that the companies who fund the AI software development have been listening carefully to the public's reactions over the past couple of years and have made some changes in the way they intend to deploy the software. For instance there's a website at "coproducer dot output dot com" which generates music packs which the human being can use to make new music. You type in your prompt like "144 BPM, F# Major, Rockabilly Asian Style" or "120 BPM, Chromatic Scale, Orchestral Dramatic Movie Score with lots of weird noises" or something like that and the AI creates a selection of packs containing brief samples of the instruments. The human can then rearrange the samples, perhaps combining them with sequences of their own performances and create something unique as a result. Other website providers have begun to take a similar approach, allowing the AI to create bits and pieces of useful things which the human can then build something from. I call this type of AI work "Cyborg Art" meaning that it's still partly human created with AI as an assistant. It isn't very different from software which we've been using for decades. It's only a bit better at it.
Here, here! "The point I’m trying to make is that it’s the musical virtues that we lost when ’80s drums took over — a live relationship between musicians, including speeding up and slowing down; air and sweat and heartbreak in the room; brilliant mistakes, accidental overtones; human frailty; unplastic soul; the good stuff — that’s what’s being gladly eliminated now. The usual litany of analogue intangibles."
I've seen several signs recently that the companies who fund the AI software development have been listening carefully to the public's reactions over the past couple of years and have made some changes in the way they intend to deploy the software. For instance there's a website at "coproducer dot output dot com" which generates music packs which the human being can use to make new music. You type in your prompt like "144 BPM, F# Major, Rockabilly Asian Style" or "120 BPM, Chromatic Scale, Orchestral Dramatic Movie Score with lots of weird noises" or something like that and the AI creates a selection of packs containing brief samples of the instruments. The human can then rearrange the samples, perhaps combining them with sequences of their own performances and create something unique as a result. Other website providers have begun to take a similar approach, allowing the AI to create bits and pieces of useful things which the human can then build something from. I call this type of AI work "Cyborg Art" meaning that it's still partly human created with AI as an assistant. It isn't very different from software which we've been using for decades. It's only a bit better at it.