In the 70s that's going to be certain clubs, right? You know, it's not CBGBs. Okay, let's do 80s. People play music from a club in the 90s. Yeah, but again, it's definitely privileging what's going on. In the 2000s, this is the era of bling wrap. So if you went to a hip-hop club, that doesn't sound anything at all, like that. Do you want to try grunge? Sure. I mean, people argue about this to this day. That was a little bit more metal than I would have placed in. What do you think?
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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