Nostr Web Client

Been using RIP X to deconstruct stuff for sound design, which is interesting and uses LLM tech. I can see how it's a next generation of sampling but typing prompts for making music doesn't excite me if I'm honest. We were given some software at work recently that enabled us to use fake voices to sing songs typed in but it left me cold. We haven't used it at all (although we LOVE the other app the company gave us).

I enjoy manipulating audio but with a music collection and a few musician friends, I've not needed to ask the computer to create something 'new' the computer has only listened to more music than either than us, it doesn't understand emotion or get goosebumps hearing someone sing.

Re. Outsourcing, what about collaborating with musicians? Maybe I'm mad... Trying to think it through, rather than knee jerk reaction, which admittedly I just did. Do you think music, more broadly, is getting better, aside from AI? There's fewer chords and a reduced melodic range in popular songs and it's like watching a chart of dollars in circulation since 1971. When everyone can make a song, a song will no longer have value, which is currently Spotify's position. Maybe it should be called Fiat Music....

I imagine a world where Ad Execs at g00gle suddenly think they're Bob Marley and it gives me the creeps haha.

EvoLensArt 11mo ago

More options, more outputs. A higher need for filtering. 90% of everything is crap, and that’s true with or without AI.

It’s not either/or, but “yes, and”…..

Every output - no matter how organic or mechanical - can be a direct input or indirect input on future works.

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

inpc 11mo ago

Point taken but the more music made, the lower the percentage of quality of music, especially against a backdrop of over 100 years of recorded music. So now the filter is 90%, then 91%, then 92% etc. Maybe AI could be used to find me 1 good album release that makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up?

There's already a trend with young musicians incentivized to make a 1min video vs. writing a song/album, there's very little incentive in making an album as it won't translate for social media. Perhaps the two co-exist...

I'm genuinely interested in what sort of music industry will exist in 10-20 years time, when 99% of all music consumed is auto-generated. Will people be nostalgic for noises made by humans? There's an argument that says the cream will rise to the top but that still depends on a healthy grass roots scene and opportunities for young people to perform music.

I don't know the future but I rate Bill Bruford's drum sound over Suno at this point in time. Especially seeing one of the prompts was 1968 Abbey Road, couldn't hear that influence, sounded waaaaayyyyyy more Nashville. Maybe Suno should spend more time focused on The Beatles and less time on Taylor Swift!

But hey, you had fun making it so I'm not gonna hate!