Will AI bring to the demise of music or usher in a new age of artistic expression?

Will AI bring to the demise of music or usher in a new age of artistic expression?

Gdansk/London: Researchers are experimenting with cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) techniques inside a recording studio at Queen Mary University of London in order to produce what they refer to as a "new virtual world" of music.

Together, Andrea Martonelli and Max Graf, together with over thirty other PhD students, are investigating computational creativity and generative AI under the guidance of Dr. Mathieu Barthet, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media. The group has created a future laboratory where cutting edge technology and music are combined.

Graf told Reuters, "It's like extended reality, XR, is a way to extend the physical reality that we live in," as he showed off his virtual gadget, "Netz."

With the use of an augmented reality headset, Netz records motions and emits accompanying sounds or chords.

Martonelli performs on "HItar," an advanced guitar equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) sensors that interpret his movements to produce drum and synthesizer sounds. Although AI has been used in music production since the 1950s, more recent advances in generative AI have resulted in robots performing as digital pop stars, a development that has divided opinion in the industry.

Generative AI, made popular by the ChatGPIT language system last year, can create content on its own, which include original sounds, lyrics, or entire songs, but artists often use relatively easy AI to enhance their sound. Youngblood, a UK alternative rock singer-songwriter, told Reuters he considers AI could help take his music "in another direction"; however, other musicians worry that the innovation may be going too far. Amy Love of the alternative rock duo Nova Twins responded, "I think if you need AI to help you write a song, especially when it's for a comparison, it's not good." Voices are "not on." The Beatles released "Now as well as Then" in November, which was billed as their last song as well as featured John Lennon's voi

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) director of global legal policy, Abbas Lightwala, stated that "illegal development is what will jeopardize the opportunities for generative AI." However, regulation of generative AI is still in its infancy. Dr. Barthet stated, "I think AI will make music better." "Producing can make its way into series a second time it's directed in the right way as well as we make sure that the composers have a certain amount of control, as well as the artists too." "But there could be situations where (AI) The music generated works to create new things that haven't even appeared yet, new virtual worlds."