Hi-Phi Nation

Rise of the Music Machines

May 16, 2023

53:06

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

AI Music: The Future of Music

3min

How to Classify Vocal Emulation

4min

AI Freddie Mercury Covering Terror

2min

The Future of AI Vocal Emulation Technology

3min

AI Music Technology: The Next Level of Complexity

4min

The Retro Club in the 70s

2min

AI-Generated Sound

2min

AI-Generated Music: A Populist Art Form

3min

10.

AI Music: A Participatory Activity

2min

11.

Google Music LM: Translating Words Into Sound

5min

12.

How AI Music Technology Can Model Human Creativity

4min

13.

Fabrizio and Kishow's Human Improvised Guitar Solo

3min

14.

The Improvise Solo

3min

15.

AI Solo: A Heavy Metal Backing Track With No Rhythm

4min

16.

The Blues Solo: A Story Telling

4min

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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