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Rise of the Music Machines

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May 16, 2023
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INSIGHT

Language Can Translate To Music

  • Google trained musicians to describe 5,500 YouTube clips and used 370,000 words to teach MusicLM how words map to sounds.
  • This enables text-to-music translation that can turn any descriptive language into new musical outputs.
ANECDOTE

Fan-Fiction Tracks Recreate Dead Artists

  • Online producer 'hip-hop intelligence' made a Tupac-style track using a vocal emulator to sing his own lyrics in Tupac's timbre.
  • The creator used his own performance but swapped the voice's timbre to imagine Tupac rapping about his death.
INSIGHT

Vocal Emulation Sits In-Between

  • Vocal emulators replace an artist's timbre while preserving the performer’s words, notes, and rhythm.
  • These tools function like machine impersonators and sit between sampling and human imitation legally and conceptually.
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