I used AI to make this song. The results, and its implications, startled me (opens in new tab)

I've had a lot of fun taking some of my older songs and using AI to create covers of them. This was a song I wrote for the piano over a decade ago.

Original for piano https://youtu.be/c3nPpzzC83U

Orchestral Cover (GenAI) https://youtu.be/5r3sN2YNEGs

Instantly being able to hear a song performed with an alternate orchestration (even if it is rather mechanical) is still a lot of fun and could lead to some interesting experimentation.

Unfortunately, using it as a collaborative tool is probably NOT going to be the predominant way that it is used by a mainstream audience. Instead it will be used to generate the chord progression, the lyrics, the melody, the structure, and the performance - and then hurled into the world in a deluge of pure AI generated noise.

I created everything here.. music and composition and the video with AI on my phone:

https://youtu.be/BUydN1PRPgo

Suno extracts stems but I would love it if they have an ancillary app that would do the scoresheet and give me the notes…

While AI music is fine by me(it’s here to stay), I would like to tweak some of the chord progression of the orchestration .. would certainly like to see how it would play out live.

I am loving it. I am not a musician and I am learning from this.. by doing and music theory one song at a time.. It is making music learning fun for me.

One of my submarines is human-performed AI-written songs. They have all of the "soul" of human made songs, but you can mass produce them with session musicians. The arbitrage on human discernment and emotional appeal is surprisingly easy to exploit.

No paywall: https://archive.is/0oXu5