Human imperfections are what make music special I remember years back my friends band had this really great guitar intro. It was qwarky to say the least. I asked how they came up with it. My friend told the guy who came up with it played it on the guitar yet didn't know how to play a guitar at all. Sometimes not knowing what your doing is a blessing. Human error is something computers may never learn.
"There is a crack in everything - that's how the light gets in" . Will computers ever be authentic in conveying personal emotions? I don't think so. They are be capable only for making music background that follows some scenario justvlike in the computer game. The thessis about Price law or Paretto princip mention in Jordan Petersons' book is interesting but it is not entirely correct. J.S. Bach was forgotten until someone discovered his work years after his death...
I love technology in music. Humans will always be making music, but I hope for the day where we’ll STOP idolizing music of the past and embrace the future.
Paul I'm glad you got into my field a bit (video game music). Indeed, there's a lot of music that changes behavior based on variables you input depending on "states" or player choice. There are also some, but not a lot, of programs like DirectMusic that can take information like chords and scales and adjust based on any number of variables for melody and harmony. However, 90% of music is still written by humans and the AI aspect is just how it's built in the game itself. We are a very long way from AI that can "write" on the fly. Game music is also changing in that there's sung lyrics in games more now than there was. And licensed music that can blend with a game's score, not just exist independently. Happy to discuss further particularly when it comes to better playback systems. We need companies like PS Audio influencing the expectations of our audience! So many games are being played on headphones!
The future of music is to rediscover how music of the past is often superior. It’s great we can make music on computers nowadays but we have lost some of the “human emotional magic” that made Carpenters, Elton John etc. successful ages ago.
Computers also make sounds and sequences possible that a human simple can't do. So computers are just a means to get a certain sound/melody/drum pattern and thus is in fact a instrument. The soul is in the one programming it. And if we build a "smart" enough AI it might be considered to actually have a soul. Haven't you seen Ghost in the shell? (the manga not that abomination of a Hollywood recreation...)
I disagree, there is no real superior music, if anything the future of music is to respect and enjoy music regardless of when or how it was made. I'm sure thats what the artists want us, the listeners, to do.
The complaint that modern music is crap has been around forever. Back in the days of Elton John people probably complained about him and appreciated musicians like Art Tatum or Django Reinhardt. Back in the days of Art Tatum people probably complained about Jazz music and wanted to go back to strives and ragtimes. The only conclusion I can draw from that, is that *true* appreciation of popular music often comes decades later.
FullFledged2010 Yes, of course music made by using computers can also do something that we couldn’t do in the past. Actually I listen to a lot of modern EDM. Deadmau5 is one example that I enjoy but some times I get in a more relaxing emotional mood and listen to older music that has a lot more human passion behind it. Even old Jean Michelle Jarre music has something to it you don’t get from modern electronic heavily sequenced music. AI is a bit early stage on making music. I actually professionally work with AI.
Its time for me to get hold of a pair ASAP, when i have enough cash, either try and get new or an excellent used pair for sale, any way I can get my hands on a pair.
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, the Stones, Led Zep, Bruce, Carole King, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans and some other 20 - 30 names from the past is all I need to have a wide smile when I listen to music. I don't care for the Autotune generation!
Amen, Brother. I will have to add, though, a comment about how the recent album by Gary Clark, Jr. "This Land" uses a lot of Autotune. At first, I was put off by it. However, after a few more listenings I came to understand how it helped to express his anger at the continuing state of things in our country and the world. I'm good with it now. And after all, who am I to tell a talented musician how to play his music?
Also Gotye uses Autotune specifically for that robotic effect like his masterpiece "State of the Art". While vast majority of modern music does not use Antares Autotunes because you have to licence it for record release. Sorry music back then is not any better than it is in recent decade. It's on the same level IMHO. The Soundcloud & Bandcamp scene a child of internet communities truly has reinvented and pushed modern music. Pretending it does not exist is just ignorance.
As the story goes: Eugene Ormandy, the conductor, was in an elevator with computer generated music coming from the speaker overhead. One of the other passengers asked him what he thought of this "computer music"? Mr. Ormandy thought for a few floors and then responded, "I suppose computers might enjoy it!"
My first job out of high school was working at a big hotel in town setting up all the sound and lighting for the functions we hosted. Some were pretty involved, we had the Boston Pops on stage one night and that was pretty complex. Arthur Feidler was not an easy man o please. In the control room for the main ballroom complex we had a dozen rack mounted amps thet drove speakers in different rooms. One amp handled the muzak that filled the lobibes and elevators, they came in every few weeks and loaded a new stack of records of what we referred to as pablum. Given what aututune has done for music I hope I'm dead before the the next AI music app comes along.
Sounds like you're talking about No Man's Sky? No Man's Sky uses "procedural generation" to create the planets you visit in the game, and the same method also generates the in-game music.
Netherspark You’re right that the planets are procedurally generated but I’m fairly sure the soundtrack was written and created by 65 days of static. For procedurally generated music Brian Eno is one of the leading figures
@@r08zy The offical soundtrack - the one you can buy - is written like regular music but the game uses it as a base for procedural generation. Just like all the creatures etc are cobbled together from hand-made art assets, the music also draws from the various parts of these tracks.
I read your book full of what I assume are some “PMF’s”, but it was entertaining as hell, especially the stories of being a kid and your teens. I love that book. Reading it again right now. Computers will never have the true human soul and emotion needed to produce music, btw. Thanks, Paul!
Wise words Paul. We might never be able to distill what makes a song a hit but once AI rolls in it will be able to spit out hundreds of songs (or tunes) and producers will sit down and sift through looking for a hit.
"souless computers' utterly laughable comment. There will always be music by humans using their own bodies "singing, clapping, whistling etc" and music created by humans using tools like "musical instruments" and that includes computers created by humans to produce music whether programmed or by using AI. The effect, as always, will be a good one.
Always learning from Pauls knowledge! We need more of to your isms! I had no idea they made video game music on the fly! I'm not a big gamer but it has come along alot since the atari, tangy pc and old school Nintendo days! And yes some of it isn't too bad. Even heard forks use it in reviews of hifi and heaphone gear their testing. Thanks paul for a tidbit of your bottomless fountain of knowledge!
Working as a software engineer, i have no doubt whatsoever this will come. There will be music composed by a computer and most likely we will not be able to hear the difference. But my guess would be, that it won't change the music industry all that much, as we are still very focused on a (human) artist. So for the artists, who perform the songs written by their ghost writers, I think this changes hardly anythin. And for those artists, which write their own material, they will continue doing so because they want to. This will be another tool some musicans will want to use and some don't. We don't have to worry, that in the near future composers will be obsolete, the same way as drum computers didn't displace acutal drummers, autotune didn't displace talented singers, sample libraries didn't displace actual instruments and playback didn't displace actual live performances. Don't get me wrong, as with all these examples, many artists will choose to use these tools. And good for them. But there will always be a niche for "real" musicans.
It's been around for twenty years, created to mix DSD. Very few labels record in DXD but it's unlikely you will tell any difference between a 352.8/24 and 44.1/16 cd version of the same thing but see what YOU think (or hear I should say) Make sure it has been recorded in DXD in the first place.
AI Music is already here. Composing is formulated and the maths engine end of things has to attempt to create emotion in compositions. But it does it like a sociopath and can only guess what the listener wants or expects. I’m a musician and the industry isn’t affected by AI. It’s affected by copyright and lack of sales of media. Musicians only really make money for themselves if they (a) self-release, (b) utilise all online platforms in one go - Spotify, Last FM, ITunes, and others who take a fee. (c) perform live gigs, and (d) sell merchandise or get sponsors. I’m also a wedding photographer & videographer. And that “Robot Photographer” contraption isn’t going to cause any upset either.
hey ! where can I send my questions ? I have a simple one, but I can't find any convincing answer on interner. The question is : Do speakers age ? is It risky to buy vintage monitors ?
Ape Out is 100% computer generated, even the vinyl record of the game is Live Gameplay Recorder (since it’s all situational). An AMAZING IMPRO JAZZ OST !!!!!
AI is able to generate synthetic photos of people on the fly on your browser. It’s able to clumsily (not for long) generate paintings. It’s able to generate blog articles. It won’t be too long before AI will write novels and compose music in what ever style you like. Fancy a new Harry Potter? Pronto! And as Paul said it will creep on us so fast we won’t even realise.
If a baby is crying, we wouldn’t say he’s not expressing himself but we wouldn’t call it art. It’s just something he knows how to do but he isn’t cognitively involved with the mechanisms he’s exploiting.
Stephen Colbert made a comment awhile back to the effect that he can't wait for artificial intelligence takes over, given how badly we so-called natural intelligences have screwed things up. I'm still fond of our species, though, warts and all. Love is the best thing that people do. Music is a close second.
@Fat Rat Way back in the ancient 8-bit days of the nacent personal computer revolution there was a program called Ractor, described as being the first product of the emerging field of artificial insanity.
As a musician i often wonder if there even is a "new" type of music as we already have so much of it. Maybe with conventional acoustics instruments we are about to hit a brick wall but we haven't even scratched the surface at what computers and synthesizers can do. 🙌
This was an odd video. Personally, I feel that music without human emotion and reaction is just "sound". Lifeless and bland. Look at the void that is currently popular music. It is all formulated, sampled, and arranged without emotion or creativity and is stiffled. I often ask people I know in their 20's what their favorite bands are...and I get blank stares and a "uh, I don't know"...ask that question to a 20 something from 2000 or earlier and you'll get a list of performers without even having to think about it.
Meh that has to do with music being a smaller part of modern life. Music is often used as a background noise, listening to music as a primary activity has largely been replaced with watching series, gaming and social media.
For some reason, your explaining AI making music in games made me wanna watch a silent movie at a movie theater with a Real Intelligence (or what's the opposite of AI ;) ) playing music to it live :)
Well there's a lot of worms in that can! Is music music, because it is so in the eye (ear) of the creator, or just a beholder? When is music not music? - I rather feel with some music you could attach a percentage to it - i.e. that is 78% music and 22% organised sound - or 60% music and 40% aural entertainment, with a beholder drift of 10% maybe. Is organised sound music? - well it certainly can be, though I would not define music as such - when is it not? A lot of these questions seem to circle round the significance of 4'33'' and the very definition of music.
LOL the opposite is happening. Conceptual Albums have been popular in the past several years. This is maybe due to streaming Shared & Auto Playlist. FYI not everyone uses Spotify.
What is your definition of music that excludes these sounds and devices? Because, I guarantee if you can define it, I can find some of your favorite songs that don't fit in your definition either. Just because you don't like a particular sound or technique, it doesn't mean it's not music. No need to be a gatekeeper.
The Hits do not represent the innovation and artistry of music. That is Music $$$ BUISNESS. It's sad people do not udnerstand the difference. Artist have been innovating and pushing amazingly in the past decade due to democratization of DAW Personal Studio. Then add onto Online Communities like BandCamp, SoundCloud and this place called RUclips. Music the art form is in a Renaissance, never has been concepts and taste been soo varied and complicated. tv.nrk.no/serie/kork-hele-landets-orkester/2015/MKKA71000615/ - LIDO, DJ Producer with KORK Orschestra.
I never thought I would not be able to listen to the end of one of your podcasts! This is just horrible! We have witnessed the extinction of popular music as art, and are now left with the dregs of the cesspool, once all else has evaporated. Now fortunately there is still wonderful music being produced, but you have to really hunt & search it out. I don't mind doing that, but for the 90-some percent who don't, they are left with the fecund remainder. As our art and culture devolves, so too does our society! You want proof? Look around! Never will manufactured product be "pretty darn good!" And I apologize if this is taken personal, that is not my intention, as a musician I just have strong feelings.
Good point! And nothing new really. Someone like Andrew Lloyd Webber is really an incredibly skilled musical technician who splices together bits of music in the style of past composers based on an ability to absorb everything he has heard before. But there is undoubtedly a human element as well that makes it work in a way that AI may struggle with.
Releases mastered specifically for 24bit and Vinyl for me for the foreseeable future. Wierd one "Selena Gomez Rare" is stunningly mastered in 24bit, it's soo smooth and warm.
just get an Arturia MIDI keybaord and Kork NTS1 synthesizers and a small guitar combo amp and you can make lots of nise songes. Atrutia aas ARPEGGIATOR AND SEQUENCES TO make compicate stuff and A swing to make notes longer. They can use online DRUMB MASCHONES LIEK THE ONE EMULATING volca beats. NO MORES GIBSONS OR YAAHES. recorded it a behginfer usb audtio interface to Audacity or use Rp pedal for amp and CABINETS SIMULTORES. mISTE pAULS IS SMARTS. i SAW T HIS PRIDCTS ON ps audio WEB SITE.waaaay too complcated for me. Im stuck in 1970s. THANKES YUOE AND THUMBBS UPES
I can't believe it, Paul has got some ATC SCM50ASL there on their premises. THINK IT'S TIME TO GET HOLD OF A PAIR ASAP. If they are good enough for PS AUDIO , they are definitely good enough for us mere music lovers, and forget about mixing and matching amplifiers and loudspeakers. All you need then is your preferred souce/preamp. Out of all the hundreds and hundreds of monitors out there, this says bucket loads about decent quality monitors, that Class A powered up to 2/3rds power, ATC SCM ACTIVE SUPER LINEAR, are the way to go forward, and be done once and for all, with the hifi mixing and matching itch. My current system in my 4 by 3.5 metre room, consists of a pair of UK made classic monitor audio gold reference gr20 special edition floorstanding loudspeakers, biamped with a classic pair of UK MADE mid 90's avi s2000mi class A /AB amplifiers, while my current source is a fantastic astell and kern kann direct dac line output using the tidal uncompressed hifi / master subscription, while my rca interconnects are two pairs of 0.6m nordost red rev 2, and my loudspeaker cables are two pairs of 2 metre nordost leif red dawn. This is the most smooth, balanced, detailed, transparent, wide open frequency response capable dynamic passive 2.5 way loudspeaker system 30hz to 30khz - 6 db each end of the frequency range, I have found over the years for my UK 🇬🇧 sized flat. No other amplifiers and dynamic passive loudspeakers has ever made the grade, in been able to tell it like it is in a balanced, open, revealing way, sounding natural, easy to listen to, while sibilant free, with speed, timing, dynamic naturalism, while making equipment like the toe tapping naim audio equipment sound bad, uncouth, and broken. For a dynamic 2.5 way loudspeaker passive system for my 4 metre room size room, nothing else has come close. The only way forward from my systems capabilities, can only be a set of high end quality class A powered active loudspeakers, full stop. ( Ian john horwood from the UK 🇬🇧 ).
Most todays music is crap. R&B is for weedheads who doesn't want to hurry things, Rap is for people who wants to argu but have no real interrest in music because Rap is no music. Conversations on rhythm. Bad times for people who love to listen to real music with harmony, melody and rhythm what btw used to be the basic components for real music. Music without one of those three ingredients is no music. That is why my conclusion is that Rap is no way music at all. Autotuned music is also terrible. The whole human aspect is thrown away by it. Live music with a band on stage, that is how i want my music to be sound like. Pure and honest and real.
I’ve seen people listen to Don McLean’ Vincent or John Prine’s Hello in there for the first time with tears in their eyes. A computer will never be able to do that to anybody.
music is all about human emotion. you can't teach a computer about human emotion example Beethoven 5th symphony. all the music for the last 100 years are garbage. to go to the future, you have to learn from the past.
There hasn't been music for past 40+ years.....just manufactured, over-produced, soulless, crap.... I disregard pitch mics, auto-tune, digital machines, etc.... One should be able hear the bow touching a cello, or Eric Clapton playing a different solo every time he plays the same song.
Human imperfections are what make music special
I remember years back my friends band had this really great guitar intro. It was qwarky to say the least. I asked how they came up with it. My friend told the guy who came up with it played it on the guitar yet didn't know how to play a guitar at all. Sometimes not knowing what your doing is a blessing. Human error is something computers may never learn.
"There is a crack in everything - that's how the light gets in" . Will computers ever be authentic in conveying personal emotions? I don't think so. They are be capable only for making music background that follows some scenario justvlike in the computer game. The thessis about Price law or Paretto princip mention in Jordan Petersons' book is interesting but it is not entirely correct. J.S. Bach was forgotten until someone discovered his work years after his death...
Depends what you think it means to say "how to play a guitar"...
I love technology in music. Humans will always be making music, but I hope for the day where we’ll STOP idolizing music of the past and embrace the future.
Paul I'm glad you got into my field a bit (video game music). Indeed, there's a lot of music that changes behavior based on variables you input depending on "states" or player choice. There are also some, but not a lot, of programs like DirectMusic that can take information like chords and scales and adjust based on any number of variables for melody and harmony. However, 90% of music is still written by humans and the AI aspect is just how it's built in the game itself. We are a very long way from AI that can "write" on the fly.
Game music is also changing in that there's sung lyrics in games more now than there was. And licensed music that can blend with a game's score, not just exist independently.
Happy to discuss further particularly when it comes to better playback systems. We need companies like PS Audio influencing the expectations of our audience! So many games are being played on headphones!
The future of music is to rediscover how music of the past is often superior. It’s great we can make music on computers nowadays but we have lost some of the “human emotional magic” that made Carpenters, Elton John etc. successful ages ago.
Computers also make sounds and sequences possible that a human simple can't do. So computers are just a means to get a certain sound/melody/drum pattern and thus is in fact a instrument. The soul is in the one programming it. And if we build a "smart" enough AI it might be considered to actually have a soul. Haven't you seen Ghost in the shell? (the manga not that abomination of a Hollywood recreation...)
I disagree, there is no real superior music, if anything the future of music is to respect and enjoy music regardless of when or how it was made. I'm sure thats what the artists want us, the listeners, to do.
You like Steve Hillage/Gong? What about Sun Ra?
The complaint that modern music is crap has been around forever.
Back in the days of Elton John people probably complained about him and appreciated musicians like Art Tatum or Django Reinhardt.
Back in the days of Art Tatum people probably complained about Jazz music and wanted to go back to strives and ragtimes.
The only conclusion I can draw from that, is that *true* appreciation of popular music often comes decades later.
FullFledged2010 Yes, of course music made by using computers can also do something that we couldn’t do in the past. Actually I listen to a lot of modern EDM. Deadmau5 is one example that I enjoy but some times I get in a more relaxing emotional mood and listen to older music that has a lot more human passion behind it. Even old Jean Michelle Jarre music has something to it you don’t get from modern electronic heavily sequenced music. AI is a bit early stage on making music. I actually professionally work with AI.
Paul, you have ATC near field monitors in the studio! I like them!
Its time for me to get hold of a pair ASAP, when i have enough cash, either try and get new or an excellent used pair for sale, any way I can get my hands on a pair.
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, the Stones, Led Zep, Bruce, Carole King, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans and some other 20 - 30 names from the past is all I need to have a wide smile when I listen to music. I don't care for the Autotune generation!
Amen, Brother. I will have to add, though, a comment about how the recent album by Gary Clark, Jr. "This Land" uses a lot of Autotune. At first, I was put off by it. However, after a few more listenings I came to understand how it helped to express his anger at the continuing state of things in our country and the world. I'm good with it now. And after all, who am I to tell a talented musician how to play his music?
@@stephensmith3111 Thanks for telling me about Gary Clark, Jr. I had never heard of him before! I will listen to his music!
Also Gotye uses Autotune specifically for that robotic effect like his masterpiece "State of the Art". While vast majority of modern music does not use Antares Autotunes because you have to licence it for record release. Sorry music back then is not any better than it is in recent decade. It's on the same level IMHO. The Soundcloud & Bandcamp scene a child of internet communities truly has reinvented and pushed modern music. Pretending it does not exist is just ignorance.
@@Neojhun I fully respect your opinion on present-day and yesteryear artists but I do not share it.
Till the life on the earth, music too will be alive and existing.
i don't think music was made on the fly in those video games,
they are pre made just no one had heard it till someone went to that area.
As the story goes:
Eugene Ormandy, the conductor, was in an elevator with computer generated music coming from the speaker overhead. One of the other passengers asked him what he thought of this "computer music"?
Mr. Ormandy thought for a few floors and then responded, "I suppose computers might enjoy it!"
My first job out of high school was working at a big hotel in town setting up all the sound and lighting for the functions we hosted. Some were pretty involved, we had the Boston Pops on stage one night and that was pretty complex. Arthur Feidler was not an easy man o please.
In the control room for the main ballroom complex we had a dozen rack mounted amps thet drove speakers in different rooms. One amp handled the muzak that filled the lobibes and elevators, they came in every few weeks and loaded a new stack of records of what we referred to as pablum.
Given what aututune has done for music I hope I'm dead before the the next AI music app comes along.
I learned to play notes in school. I never learned "to play". That is the difference.
Sounds like you're talking about No Man's Sky?
No Man's Sky uses "procedural generation" to create the planets you visit in the game, and the same method also generates the in-game music.
Netherspark You’re right that the planets are procedurally generated but I’m fairly sure the soundtrack was written and created by 65 days of static. For procedurally generated music Brian Eno is one of the leading figures
@@r08zy The offical soundtrack - the one you can buy - is written like regular music but the game uses it as a base for procedural generation.
Just like all the creatures etc are cobbled together from hand-made art assets, the music also draws from the various parts of these tracks.
Netherspark I never knew that, I thought it was a premade soundtrack playing the whole time
I read your book full of what I assume are some “PMF’s”, but it was entertaining as hell, especially the stories of being a kid and your teens. I love that book. Reading it again right now. Computers will never have the true human soul and emotion needed to produce music, btw.
Thanks, Paul!
Wise words Paul. We might never be able to distill what makes a song a hit but once AI rolls in it will be able to spit out hundreds of songs (or tunes) and producers will sit down and sift through looking for a hit.
Interesting insight.... great video 👍
"souless computers' utterly laughable comment. There will always be music by humans using their own bodies "singing, clapping, whistling etc" and music created by humans using tools like "musical instruments" and that includes computers created by humans to produce music whether programmed or by using AI. The effect, as always, will be a good one.
Most he says it actually laughable, it’s precisely why I am here. Look up his video , what planar speakers are.. it’s hilarious
Always learning from Pauls knowledge! We need more of to your isms! I had no idea they made video game music on the fly! I'm not a big gamer but it has come along alot since the atari, tangy pc and old school Nintendo days! And yes some of it isn't too bad. Even heard forks use it in reviews of hifi and heaphone gear their testing. Thanks paul for a tidbit of your bottomless fountain of knowledge!
Interesting subject today 👍
Working as a software engineer, i have no doubt whatsoever this will come. There will be music composed by a computer and most likely we will not be able to hear the difference.
But my guess would be, that it won't change the music industry all that much, as we are still very focused on a (human) artist. So for the artists, who perform the songs written by their ghost writers, I think this changes hardly anythin. And for those artists, which write their own material, they will continue doing so because they want to.
This will be another tool some musicans will want to use and some don't. We don't have to worry, that in the near future composers will be obsolete, the same way as drum computers didn't displace acutal drummers, autotune didn't displace talented singers, sample libraries didn't displace actual instruments and playback didn't displace actual live performances. Don't get me wrong, as with all these examples, many artists will choose to use these tools. And good for them. But there will always be a niche for "real" musicans.
Hi Paul - where would you place DXD 32/352.8 Tidal has this available to listen to. I'm told it's ultra high fidelity. The future? 360 Reality Audio ?
It's been around for twenty years, created to mix DSD. Very few labels record in DXD but it's unlikely you will tell any difference between a 352.8/24 and 44.1/16 cd version of the same thing but see what YOU think (or hear I should say) Make sure it has been recorded in DXD in the first place.
AI Music is already here. Composing is formulated and the maths engine end of things has to attempt to create emotion in compositions. But it does it like a sociopath and can only guess what the listener wants or expects. I’m a musician and the industry isn’t affected by AI. It’s affected by copyright and lack of sales of media. Musicians only really make money for themselves if they (a) self-release, (b) utilise all online platforms in one go - Spotify, Last FM, ITunes, and others who take a fee. (c) perform live gigs, and (d) sell merchandise or get sponsors.
I’m also a wedding photographer & videographer. And that “Robot Photographer” contraption isn’t going to cause any upset either.
Great answer 👍
hey ! where can I send my questions ? I have a simple one, but I can't find any convincing answer on interner. The question is : Do speakers age ? is It risky to buy vintage monitors ?
I couldn't imagine not having live gigs with bands.I'm sure AI will have It's place in generating hits though.
Ape Out is 100% computer generated, even the vinyl record of the game is Live Gameplay Recorder (since it’s all situational). An AMAZING IMPRO JAZZ OST
!!!!!
AI is able to generate synthetic photos of people on the fly on your browser. It’s able to clumsily (not for long) generate paintings. It’s able to generate blog articles. It won’t be too long before AI will write novels and compose music in what ever style you like. Fancy a new Harry Potter? Pronto! And as Paul said it will creep on us so fast we won’t even realise.
If a baby is crying, we wouldn’t say he’s not expressing himself but we wouldn’t call it art. It’s just something he knows how to do but he isn’t cognitively involved with the mechanisms he’s exploiting.
I'll parrot your comment. ruclips.net/video/VRbl0QE3KWA/видео.html
While Paul on the left makes everything clear to us again, the other Paul on the right of the screen is doing business. Always doing well Paul's
Stephen Colbert made a comment awhile back to the effect that he can't wait for artificial intelligence takes over, given how badly we so-called natural intelligences have screwed things up. I'm still fond of our species, though, warts and all.
Love is the best thing that people do. Music is a close second.
@Fat Rat Way back in the ancient 8-bit days of the nacent personal computer revolution there was a program called Ractor, described as being the first product of the emerging field of artificial insanity.
The way music's going these days I'm sure it wont be too long beforfe it's completely un-recoginisable AS music. it's practically like that now!
IRCAM has been here for more than 40 years
As a musician i often wonder if there even is a "new" type of music as we already have so much of it. Maybe with conventional acoustics instruments we are about to hit a brick wall but we haven't even scratched the surface at what computers and synthesizers can do. 🙌
This was an odd video. Personally, I feel that music without human emotion and reaction is just "sound". Lifeless and bland. Look at the void that is currently popular music. It is all formulated, sampled, and arranged without emotion or creativity and is stiffled. I often ask people I know in their 20's what their favorite bands are...and I get blank stares and a "uh, I don't know"...ask that question to a 20 something from 2000 or earlier and you'll get a list of performers without even having to think about it.
Meh that has to do with music being a smaller part of modern life.
Music is often used as a background noise, listening to music as a primary activity has largely been replaced with watching series, gaming and social media.
@@QoraxAudio That's the saddest statement I've read in a long time.....
@@stonefree1911 Ah yes, but I'm afraid it's true... or at least quite close to the truth.
@Fat Rat Every neighbor likes the booming sound of a music listening boomer! 😅
AI won't be able to compose music until it is able to appreciate music, maybe in a hundred years or so.
No Man's Sky .. all things procedural
AI is not bad for ambient music but actual songs and lyrics .. we'll see
For some reason, your explaining AI making music in games made me wanna watch a silent movie at a movie theater with a Real Intelligence (or what's the opposite of AI ;) ) playing music to it live :)
Voiced with a real Wurlitzer organ.
AI is good at a lot of things. Music is not one of them.
Well there's a lot of worms in that can! Is music music, because it is so in the eye (ear) of the creator, or just a beholder? When is music not music? - I rather feel with some music you could attach a percentage to it - i.e. that is 78% music and 22% organised sound - or 60% music and 40% aural entertainment, with a beholder drift of 10% maybe. Is organised sound music? - well it certainly can be, though I would not define music as such - when is it not? A lot of these questions seem to circle round the significance of 4'33'' and the very definition of music.
Future 2 minute songs.......online streaming like Spotify.....2 minute song = lot of replay = a lot of money ........ also the end of cd and vinyl.
LOL the opposite is happening. Conceptual Albums have been popular in the past several years. This is maybe due to streaming Shared & Auto Playlist. FYI not everyone uses Spotify.
1980's 8-bit games had some of the best soundtracks. Check out the Ninja Gaiden soudtrack from 1988...;)
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“The hits” aren’t really music anymore...it’s auto-tune & auto-rhythmic devices...combined with a pretty face & sexy shape
And that's just the cute guys!
What is your definition of music that excludes these sounds and devices? Because, I guarantee if you can define it, I can find some of your favorite songs that don't fit in your definition either. Just because you don't like a particular sound or technique, it doesn't mean it's not music. No need to be a gatekeeper.
The Hits do not represent the innovation and artistry of music. That is Music $$$ BUISNESS. It's sad people do not udnerstand the difference. Artist have been innovating and pushing amazingly in the past decade due to democratization of DAW Personal Studio. Then add onto Online Communities like BandCamp, SoundCloud and this place called RUclips. Music the art form is in a Renaissance, never has been concepts and taste been soo varied and complicated.
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I never thought I would not be able to listen to the end of one of your podcasts! This is just horrible! We have witnessed the extinction of popular music as art, and are now left with the dregs of the cesspool, once all else has evaporated.
Now fortunately there is still wonderful music being produced, but you have to really hunt & search it out. I don't mind doing that, but for the 90-some percent who don't, they are left with the fecund remainder. As our art and culture devolves, so too does our society! You want proof? Look around! Never will manufactured product be "pretty darn good!" And I apologize if this is taken personal, that is not my intention, as a musician I just have strong feelings.
Good point! And nothing new really. Someone like Andrew Lloyd Webber is really an incredibly skilled musical technician who splices together bits of music in the style of past composers based on an ability to absorb everything he has heard before. But there is undoubtedly a human element as well that makes it work in a way that AI may struggle with.
The future music for me is, CD'S and Records that I bought 😎
Releases mastered specifically for 24bit and Vinyl for me for the foreseeable future. Wierd one "Selena Gomez Rare" is stunningly mastered in 24bit, it's soo smooth and warm.
just get an Arturia MIDI keybaord and Kork NTS1 synthesizers and a small guitar combo amp and you can make lots of nise songes. Atrutia aas ARPEGGIATOR AND SEQUENCES TO make compicate stuff and A swing to make notes longer. They can use online DRUMB MASCHONES LIEK THE ONE EMULATING volca beats. NO MORES GIBSONS OR YAAHES. recorded it a behginfer usb audtio interface to Audacity or use Rp pedal for amp and CABINETS SIMULTORES. mISTE pAULS IS SMARTS. i SAW T HIS PRIDCTS ON ps audio WEB SITE.waaaay too complcated for me. Im stuck in 1970s. THANKES YUOE AND THUMBBS UPES
A computer will have a hard time to create a tune like Roger Waters 4.50 A.M. (Go Fishing)
Don't think a computer will bee able to do it while I live.
I can't believe it, Paul has got some ATC SCM50ASL there on their premises. THINK IT'S TIME TO GET HOLD OF A PAIR ASAP. If they are good enough for PS AUDIO , they are definitely good enough for us mere music lovers, and forget about mixing and matching amplifiers and loudspeakers. All you need then is your preferred souce/preamp. Out of all the hundreds and hundreds of monitors out there, this says bucket loads about decent quality monitors, that Class A powered up to 2/3rds power, ATC SCM ACTIVE SUPER LINEAR, are the way to go forward, and be done once and for all, with the hifi mixing and matching itch. My current system in my 4 by 3.5 metre room, consists of a pair of UK made classic monitor audio gold reference gr20 special edition floorstanding loudspeakers, biamped with a classic pair of UK MADE mid 90's avi s2000mi class A /AB amplifiers, while my current source is a fantastic astell and kern kann direct dac line output using the tidal uncompressed hifi / master subscription, while my rca interconnects are two pairs of 0.6m nordost red rev 2, and my loudspeaker cables are two pairs of 2 metre nordost leif red dawn. This is the most smooth, balanced, detailed, transparent, wide open frequency response capable dynamic passive 2.5 way loudspeaker system 30hz to 30khz - 6 db each end of the frequency range, I have found over the years for my UK 🇬🇧 sized flat. No other amplifiers and dynamic passive loudspeakers has ever made the grade, in been able to tell it like it is in a balanced, open, revealing way, sounding natural, easy to listen to, while sibilant free, with speed, timing, dynamic naturalism, while making equipment like the toe tapping naim audio equipment sound bad, uncouth, and broken. For a dynamic 2.5 way loudspeaker passive system for my 4 metre room size room, nothing else has come close. The only way forward from my systems capabilities, can only be a set of high end quality class A powered active loudspeakers, full stop. ( Ian john horwood from the UK 🇬🇧 ).
The future of music, with more word's less meaning is horrifying. Somehow down the line the point of music has been lost. Why don't they think how.
Most todays music is crap. R&B is for weedheads who doesn't want to hurry things, Rap is for people who wants to argu but have no real interrest in music because Rap is no music. Conversations on rhythm.
Bad times for people who love to listen to real music with harmony, melody and rhythm what btw used to be the basic components for real music. Music without one of those three ingredients is no music. That is why my conclusion is that Rap is no way music at all.
Autotuned music is also terrible. The whole human aspect is thrown away by it. Live music with a band on stage, that is how i want my music to be sound like. Pure and honest and real.
I’ve seen people listen to Don McLean’ Vincent or John Prine’s Hello in there for the first time with tears in their eyes. A computer will never be able to do that to anybody.
next big thing would be feeding DSD stream directly into brain via neurolink
creepy!
There is non, next question.
Clearly you didn't watch the video.
@@-T-O-N-Y- clearly you don't understand a joke.
We stop listening to music lol
There is no life with out music 🎶 one love
Music has been de-evolving for the last 60 years. In the future it will be just grunts (of course they will be autotuned).
The trash can.
And if you download their stuff without paying for it they will know it instantly and get up in you like a bicycle with no seat.
sounds like planet dystopia- soros and kill gates dreamland
@PC Random you seem to be one of the first Gates Biorobots NPCs released if you like that... makes your ROM chips vibrate *lol
music is all about human emotion. you can't teach a computer about human emotion example Beethoven 5th symphony.
all the music for the last 100 years are garbage.
to go to the future, you have to learn from the past.
It’s here, it sucks
There hasn't been music for past 40+ years.....just manufactured, over-produced, soulless, crap....
I disregard pitch mics, auto-tune, digital machines, etc....
One should be able hear the bow touching a cello, or Eric Clapton playing a different solo every time he plays the same song.
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