80% of music is familiarity, 20% novelty, yet the majority of peoples' time goes into getting the 80% down so that they can add their 20%.
Look at current music production and compare it to past. Older music seems so much simpler. It was so much easier to come up with that 20% 'novel' when pop/recorded music was new. Ironically I think AI freeing people to focus on that 20% is going to add a lot of creativity to music, not reduce it.
I say this as someone who hates the concept of AI music. I'm actually really excited to see what it enables/creates (but I don't want to use it, even though I really could use it for vocals that I currently pay others to do for me).
I'll be here making my bad knockoffs of bad synth pop bands having fun and taking weeks to do 5% of what kids these days will start off as their entry point, with my 20% creativity ignored because my music sounds 'off' when I can't get the 80% familiar down.
People thought synthesizers were the end of music, yet Switched on Bach begot Jean Michel Jarre begot Kate Bush and on and on.
I would agree when AI gets to a point where it's possible to do that 20%. It is just not possible yet to combine it in such ways. Right now you basically get whatever music, but there's no way to add that 20%. Same with image/video generation. AI advancements have obviously been amazing and far beyond what I would've expected, but there's still ways to go.
Look at current music production and compare it to past. Older music seems so much simpler. It was so much easier to come up with that 20% 'novel' when pop/recorded music was new. Ironically I think AI freeing people to focus on that 20% is going to add a lot of creativity to music, not reduce it.
I say this as someone who hates the concept of AI music. I'm actually really excited to see what it enables/creates (but I don't want to use it, even though I really could use it for vocals that I currently pay others to do for me).
I'll be here making my bad knockoffs of bad synth pop bands having fun and taking weeks to do 5% of what kids these days will start off as their entry point, with my 20% creativity ignored because my music sounds 'off' when I can't get the 80% familiar down.
People thought synthesizers were the end of music, yet Switched on Bach begot Jean Michel Jarre begot Kate Bush and on and on.