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Post by richard on Jul 5, 2023 12:32:50 GMT
Like many, I'm sure, I have large misgivings about AI generally, and also as it might be applied to music. (Leaving aside the pre-programmed patterns, sequences, styles, musical instrument emulations, etc, that have been available on keyboards and computer music programs for many years, and could be regarded as precursors of developments in AI music which are happening now.)
The good aspects of AI use in music I'd argue are: cleaning up or eliminating unwanted non-musical sounds; revealing what was previously hidden in the music; or developing ideas in the music that perhaps the original artist didn't realise for whatever reason. (But I acknowledge that some will probably think the latter is a more suspect use of AI.)
Anyway, I love these three examples of the use of AI in music.
A development of a John Lennon song that was originally just his voice and piano on cassette: (Obviously, 'Paul McCartney' singing in the bridge is AI)
And, for me, two wonderfully developed Beach Boys tracks by Dae Lims:
The great Jerome Kern standard:
And a combination of two Burt Bacharach songs:
Whether or not you like these specific examples, do you object to the use of AI in music on principle? (If so, maybe you've refused to listen to these examples anyway! 😀)
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Post by richard on Jul 14, 2023 18:37:11 GMT
The fact that my three examples of AI in pop music that were on YouTube have been removed (though no doubt they're still available somewhere on the internet) tells us something about its still-controversial nature, I think. But trying to curtail its deployment is a losing battle, I'm sure - whether one welcomes it or not.
But of course not all older artists will embrace the technology as ABBA have. Dolly Parton, for example, has said she's not interested in having a digital version of herself performing. But, perhaps - probably disturbingly for many - it will happen anyway in the future.
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Post by richard on Oct 6, 2023 12:42:29 GMT
If modern-day pop is to be generally regarded as an artifact in its own right, to be appreciated regardless of how it comes about, then it seems to me there can be two significant divergences away from how it's been done in the past (mostly), especially in relation to older artists::
There is vocal manipulation as with Agnetha's A+, and with Kylie Minogue nowadays; or there is track enhancement deploying a singer's more natural-sounding younger voice modelled by AI, and also adding to the arrangement or rearranging the original track. I think Dai Lims is brilliant at this approach, and you can find a number of his AI versions on YouTube if interested. They get taken down from time to time, but soon return again.
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Post by HOMETIME on Oct 6, 2023 17:30:28 GMT
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Post by HOMETIME on Oct 6, 2023 21:47:18 GMT
Agreed. VERY faint inflections at best. That said, it makes me think that Freddie could have made a beautiful cover of this great song.
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Post by joseph on Oct 7, 2023 9:35:01 GMT
I'll be honest and say I look forward so someone doing an ABBA AI version of Another You, Another Me.
Still ragin' that Agnetha and Frida didn't record that one.
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