Will AI Mean Death of Music or More Creativity?
2024-02-07
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1Inside a recording room at Queen Mary University of London, several researchers are working with new artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
2Their aim is to develop what they call the "new virtual worlds" of music.
3Andrea Martonelli and Max Graf are among more than 30 doctoral students working with Mathieu Barthet, a senior lecturer in Digital Media.
4They are exploring the possibilities of computational creativity and generative AI.
5Generative AI is a term that describes technology tools designed to operate at human levels.
6Together, the researchers have set up a futuristic studio where music meets cutting-edge technology.
7Graf showed off a virtual instrument to reporters with the Reuters news agency.
8Graf calls the instrument Netz.
9Netz is played through an augmented-reality headset.
10Augmented-reality equipment combines the real world with computer-created content.
11The device Graf uses follows body movements to create musical sounds like notes and chords.
12Martonelli played a HITar, a guitar with AI sensors added to it.
13The sensors can read his movements to create percussive, or drum-like, sounds.
14These sounds cannot be made with a normal guitar.
15AI can be found in music-making dating back to the 1950s.
16But recent progress in generative AI has led to divided opinions on the technology.
17Generative AI grew in popularity last year thanks to the ChatGPT language system.
18Generative AI can create new sounds, words for music or entire songs on its own.
19But artists usually use simpler AI to add to their sound.
20British musician YUNGBLUD said he believes AI can help his music go "to another direction."
21Other musicians worry that the technology could go too far.
22Amy Love plays in the English rock group Nova Twins.
23She said she is not in favor of music that includes artificially generated voices of actual artists.
24She said she feels the same way about using dead artists' voices in songs.
25In November, the Beatles released the song "Now and Then."
26It is considered the group's last song and includes the voice of Beatles musician John Lennon, who died in 1980.
27Lennon's voice sounds were taken from an old recording and re-created with AI.
28New York City-based entertainment company Warner Music said in November it was partnering with the estate of the late French singer Edith Piaf to re-create her voice using AI.
29Many experts say AI raises legal and ethical concerns. But guidelines on generative AI are still only in their early stage.
30Barthet said, "I think AI can have its place in the music production chain."
31But he added that is only possible if the technology is guided in the right way and if there are rules in place to make sure that musicians keep some amount of control.
32I'm Jill Robbins.