Will collaboration with AI replace the talentless side-kick?
Wouldn’t it be great if we didn’t need other people? If we could come up with a great idea for a song and didn’t have to share the credit with our mate Kev just because he “wrote all the music”? Fortunately the days of having to rely on socialising and working with other humans to make music may well be behind us. New tools using AI technology are primed and ready to remove those pesky homo sapiens from your workflow once and for all.
Now the idea of getting a helping hand with your compositions in the form of artificial intelligence isn’t as cutting edge as it might sound. David Bowie was trying his hand at it with “The Verbasizer” on his album ‘Outside’ back in 1995. Even further Bach (if you’ll pardon the pun) in 1957 AI was used to create chorales in the style of our man Johann Sebastian in the ‘Illiac Suite‘. Now with significant advances in technology it’s easier than ever to get a little help from an artificial friend on your new album.
The selection of software available these days in the AI music market is pretty extensive. It seems most DAWs are employing it in some way or another from intelligent computer drummers to mixing and mastering aides. These new advances in technology are being utilised by a whole range of artists and companies to push the boundaries of new music, to come up with novel ideas or simply to cut down costs by removing expensive people from the production chain. Going even further than this companies such as Amper and AIVA are offering fully customisable AI composed music for companies, content creators and consumers.
It still seems like it’s going to be a little while until we have AI composers writing number one hits but with AI music passing turing tests perhaps it’s only a matter of time. What this means for musicians is hard to tell. Will AI serve as a helping hand to songwriters and producers or will it replace them entirely? Whatever the case it seems that we’ll be seeing the influence of artificial intelligence more and more in our music in the years to come.
Will Curry Audio 