The most interesting thing to me about Google music LM is that it translates words into sound, which means that you can translate sounds into words. You're listening to The Painting Starry Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. This is the sound of The Scream by Edward Munch. And this is Google LM's interpretation of Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory. It may not be a radio hit, but the idea these pieces express is fascinating.
On this show we explore three different AI and machine-generated music technologies; vocal emulators that allow you to deep fake a singer or rapper’s voice, AI-generated compositions and text-to-music generators like Google Music LM and Open AI’s Jukebox, and musical improvisation technologies. We listen to the variety of music these technologies generate, and two guitarists face off against an AI in improvised guitar solos.
Along the way, we talk to philosophers of music Robin James and Theodore Gracyk about what musical creativity is and whether machines are more or less creative than human musicians, and Barry gives his take on each of the technologies and what they mean for the future of musical creativity.
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