Music has always been such a big part of my daily life that ...
Totally agree with you on this. Further, people do listen to music more than admitted. Everytime you see a movie, you are bound to listen to some well orchestrated music that completes the whole experience. Or even when you buy shoes, chances are the store you walk into will have some music on the background, exactly for the mood. I find it keeps me focused or helps me brainstorm ideas.
On the AI part... That's quite a topic there.I feel it's like discovering that "magic mirror" where you simply tell it what you want and it "poofs" it into existence, while others need to build the thing. And I am permanently humbled by that, especially when I create a remix that I fear somehow might offend the original artists that I actually really appreciate to begin with. Or worse, the fans, which is more likely. But I feel on some level, I'm doing what a human being should do. Try to express something, even as a variation of something else, the way I feel it would give it more value (for me offcourse). That magic mirror doesn't know what I want. I can't go and say "Poof in for me that excellent remix of Roxette". I do need to explain quite a bit of my vision to it. And while some Roxette fans might hate it (rightfully so), some not Roxette fans might like it!
However, at this point many artists would probably laugh in my face: "
Oh, you need to 'TELL it, mind you? Why didn't we thought of that? While we learn instruments and techniques for years, rehears for other years finding that sound that you so 'conveniently' pick up from some AI? That did nothing else than learn from us??". And I hear that even without it being said. And it humbles me more.
I don't think it's fair to talk from the artists' perspective, but I will use my own perspective and experience. Many years ago, I imagined computer games or software that weren't there. And I wanted to make them into existence. To set up a team and start working on some ideas. It turned out not to be that easy. And I decided to learn to program myself while I didn't really wanted to. I wanted my focus on the creative part, not the technical aspects. And started a long journey that eventually had me become the seasoned software developer I am today. I still do my hobby projects and they are advancing nicely. I too started to use AI in this journey, even for things I could do myself. I like to review my work, to improve it. And I realize that at some point my job will be obsolete. But what will not be will be my imagination. Everything else I believe to be a tool with varying degrees of difficulty.
So, I guess what I'm saying with this overly lengthy message is that I see a distinction between the artistic effort and the technical ability to implement it. The second one I would agree it could be replaced by a tool, albeit in this case a very sophisticated and undeterministic tool.
Also, ironically, I am not the biggest fan of AI either. Let's not forget the "magic mirror" also threw someone in trouble if I recall correctly.
Thanks for your input on this and sorry for me rambling! :D
Is this your official YouTube channel? There are some various content creators ...
Hey, thanks! Yeah, made that Enthusiast Sounds channel for this kind of things. Mostly experiments or things I really enjoy listening to. :)
After exploring the galaxy of music for decades and along the way my taste did change ...
Yeah, for me too the music style I listened over the years went back and forth. And it's even mood based, sometimes I feel like listening some 80's original music, some remixes, sometimes I go with jazz or even movie music.
I think that persona you mention is actually how it learns. You see, this goes back a bit to what I was mentioning to Potapoa earlier, a lot of artists actively and pasively contributed to this AI tool and that created some patterns. Once it "gets" the hint, it knows how it should sound based on the experience of that genere or whatever it used to get the hint, maybe even lyrics.
I actually never tried to generate random music with AI. I always had a specific purpose in mind. I'm curious if I type "random song with lyrics" what would it yield. Maybe even a bit scared of that.
Btw, I really like that song and the point behind it! I think I also noticed a splice at 4:01 where you "might" have combined a part of another song. :D
But it works great!
