{"id":1692,"date":"2021-10-01T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2024-08-06T03:11:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T00:11:50","slug":"what-do-artists-think-about-aimusic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/what-do-artists-think-about-ai","title":{"rendered":"What do artists think about AI?","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For a lot of them, this wasn\u2019t their first time collaborating with technologies. In fact, most musicians use technological tools at different stages of their creative process, from mixing and mastering to experimenting with AI Music. \u201cI feel that the contribution of AI is a given already since we are all using DAWs to make, record, produce, [or] master our music,\u201d Jay Glass Dubs states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a technical point of view, artificial intelligence accelerates the time it takes to go from ideation to implementation. \u201cFor me, technology as a method has always seemed to be built on the economy of time, which in turn increases productivity,\u201d Mlin Patz<\/a> shares. “Technologies created for commercial production allow musicians to eliminate routine work. This makes adaptation a subjective decision that depends on the task set.” Even though technologies as a structure are mostly open only to engineers, given the “complexity of knowledge required to develop it”, they are beginning to be designed with a lower threshold of entry. This opens the door for more musicians to tinker with the software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, it\u2019s easier to use than you think. Etch admits, ‘I\u2019ve fallen on my face quite a lot in the process,'” he says. “Learning to code with audio software and building patches with synths is challenging. It’s basically coding in itself. Although he became quite competent with things like Reaktor, which he uses in almost all of his work, he explains that Mubert \u201cerases a lot of the really difficult parts to this and lets you focus on the initial creation of sounds while it works on the rest for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only does AI assist in handling technical aspects of the songwriting process, but it also helps unleash the musician\u2019s imagination. \u201cCollaborating with Mubert<\/a> brought me back to the experimental side I\u2019ve been neglecting to tend to \u2013 and it feels good, man,\u201d Sim Hutchins says. Etch built a module at university using Max\/MSP that did a similar thing. In his words, it was “a lot more primitive.” It only worked with pitch scale and waveforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As someone who always begins with loops rather than just playing, it\u2019s been quite inspiring,” the artist continues. “Having fed loops and sounds I\u2019ve made into the Mubert AI, it\u2019s actually come up with compositions that I\u2019ve really enjoyed.” He adds, “I probably wouldn\u2019t have thought to come up with these myself.” \u201cOne of the hardest first steps is going from loops to arrangements and this really eases that along but it doesn\u2019t steal your creation from you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, it is the boundaries that stimulate creativity. \u201cOften I work with very strict rules \u2014 that\u2019s what makes it experimental,\u201d Richard Youngs says. \u201cWhat I liked about making music for the Mubert project was this discipline. I had to stick to a time signature, a key, a certain number of bars, certain frequency ranges. It became like very interesting work \u2013 what could I do within these very precise boundaries?\u201d In this case, each loop was a mini-experiment for Richard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking into the future, artists think it\u2019s a tool that many can use to enhance the various parts of the working process. \u201cLet AI generate things and sort through those things as a human,\u201d Sim adds. Mubert has also heard a lot of innovative ideas, from Jay Glass Dubs\u2019 sound deodorant (think perfume dispenser but in music) and Mlin Patz\u2019s acoustic spaces to Richard\u2019s Turing test to determine whether a composition is algorithmic or human. What is clear, however, is that artificial intelligence will become more and more present in the music industry. It already is.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While AI already has and continues to grow its palpable presence in the music industry, a lot of artists are still wary of its applications. We asked our artists about their thoughts and opinions on artificial intelligence, its role in music, and how working with Mubert\u2019s AI has impacted their creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":6,"featured_media":1693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3,81,80,44,82],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","tag-ai","tag-artist-interviews","tag-artists","tag-creators","tag-interviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}