I fed my own track to a music-improvising AI. This is what it did to it

NeuM

@Kewe_Esse said:

@NeuM said:

@ervin said:

@NeuM said:

Imagine having a 4 hour "live" improv session along with your DAW. The DAW could be available for a jam session at any time. And every musician could benefit from this extra practice time.

So… there’s this dude…

For more explanation on wtaf is going on here, watch this:

There’s even an ipad connection there, what more could anyone possibly want?

"Sonata in G for Piano and Protozoa"

bygjohn

@Svetlovska said:
So I took my own recent SoundCloud track Supermassive:

And I fed it to music creation AI Aiva as an ‘influence’. (You can choose key, mood, style, and upload wav files of your own ‘influences’.)

https://creators.aiva.ai/

After a couple of minutes, it gave me three versions of its’ response as mp3s. (I could just as easily asked for 5 ‘variations’. ) I could have had midis for free too, or paid to get better quality wavs, and commercial license rights, or even full copyright. I chose the middle one of the three tracks it came up with, just because why not?

I’ve used it exactly as is - the composition, instrumentation and the arrangement are entirely the AI, responding to my ‘influence’, all I did was cut n paste the result into a video.

The accompanying graphics? Courtesy of another AI, of course. text to visuals AI Nightcafe Studio, and a quick hashing through Glitch Studio. (Text prompt: ‘ a supermassive supercomputer enslaves humanity’ - so not sure why it gave me a Japanese shopping mall set on Mount Doom..unless that is it’s plan…)

(You can easily tell which one is the AI in a blind test btw - it’s the one that sounds musically competent.)

This is happening fast, folks… I’m not inviting comments about ‘my’ work here, since, well, it isn’t. No humans involved… Just fascinated/awed/concerned by it, is all…

Luckily, since I wasn’t a musician in the first place, I don’t have to worry about being put out of business. If I did library music, jingles and the like though, I think I might be getting a tad concerned…

So: do you proper musicians out there feel threatened yet? After all, it only took Alpha Go a couple of years to go from learning to play the game, to decisively smashing the worlds best human player at it…

(I think now I need to feed it an unceasing diet of Dark Ambient ‘influences’ , just to mess with Aiva’s learning algorithms. Visions of an ad agency going bust when their Lovecraftian existential -horror themed breakfast cereal jingle fails to break the new brand on the supermarket shelves…)

Late to the party as usual, FWIW the original track is way more interesting and satisfying to listen to than the AI version. The AI one reminds me of that soundtrack to the PD version of Vampyr for some reason - it’s like it’s following all the musical rules, but the finished article is really uninteresting. It sounds like it’s trying to be scary and dramatic, but actually only hitting ersatz.

All of which could be my prejudices, and it could be interesting to see how I’d react if I didn’t know which was which in advance.

But tools are tools, and they improve. The AI genie is out of the bottle, and can’t be crammed back in. All we can do is adapt.