Should we be worried that AI is taking more importance everyday in music production?
Good question. I guess every innovation in the field of music production is always controversial when it appears. Think of multi-track recording, which took away the art of bands playing together but allowed more creativity, as demonstrated by the beatles in their evolution between 'Love me do' and 'Strawberry Fields Forever'. Both are amazing, and both show a band using what they have available to them to create interesting and new things. Think of the advent of Auto-tune with Cher's 'Believe', which lead to the overuse of the 'robotic' vocal sound in a lot of cheap productions but also allows singers to focus on emotions when they record, knowing the tuning can be adjusted afterwards, without it sounding artificial. Think about Amp modeling, quantization, etc, the list is very long.
At the end of the day, all those innovations are there to be used by humans and it is they who decide what to do with them. That ultimately makes the result interesting or not. It will be the same with Artificial Intelligence in music. Used by interesting people, it will be interesting. Used by talentless people, it will produce featureless boring music that won't stay with anyone and will ultimately fail.
David Goffin 26 Jan 25
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