Random Thoughts On AI Music

 

AI music is: 

• Like photorealist paintings you only had a partial role in making. It is unlike photorealist paintings in that skill is apparent and real. It is merely a print of a photorealist painting.
• A TV or film set (Something that seems real but is just artifice--and doesn't have a real-life counterpart--like the Brady Bunch house. The actual house doesn't match the real one, inside or out. It's a photograph of an exemplar).
• Lazy remix (like the photorealist painting you hardly painted and didn't know what your sources were)
• Something we will gradually normalize like all other new art forms
• Mostly a listener experience for the writer
• Like making something with blocks but you're only writing the instructions for how to make it. The instructions are actually useless and may look more like poetry or lyrics
• Is difficult to play like the record because it's made up of lots of (too many) different records