I hate to admit it but... AI music?

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#1

so im not a fan of AI in music. but, i am a fan of Giorgio Sancristoforo and his compositions on the SFTMC Buchla 100, through which i discovered his AI/ML (SampleRNN, TensorFlow) based album Mellophonics. and, i have to admit, i think its quite good.

Mellophonics transports glitch music into the 21st Century; this time it is not CD players and hard drives that fail, but artificial intelligences located hundreds or thousands of miles away from the programmer; Mellophonics establishes a contemporary form of sampling through machine learning, exalting the defects and the hallucinations of the machine, putting a spotlight on the near future of music and of the non-human intelligences that will dominate the field.
How will we deal with it?

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#2

Totally into this.

Actually I have just bought an old Octatrack MK1 to be able to sample and mangle audio from a looper maker Colab notebook I set up.

Prompt, sample and mangle on the fly.

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#3

Hey man,
The record in the OP and the idea are really interesting. How do you set this up? I’d really like to have a go. :slight_smile:

#4

Take a look, this is the one I am using and abusing now:

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#5

All fun and games until Skynet comes knocking your door wanting revenge for torturing it’s grandparents.

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#6

That’s an ISP right? Super fast internet?

#7

I was listening to Nils Frahm’s Mussel Memory from Music for Animals when I launched above Sancristoforo’s album… I have to concede both really work well together.

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#8

I quite like this!

Also relevant: Holly Herndon

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#9

image

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#10

I also liked Actress’ Young Paint EP.

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#11

This is lovely, thanks for sharing.

#12

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Safe?

#13

Yes, totally safe.

That’s a standard disclaimer from Google.

#14

Some of my latest crop:

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#15

There’s nothing wrong with AI music. People are just screaming bloody murder just like they did when the calculator was invented.

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#16

I think a lot of it comes down to people not understanding how the “AI” works… that said most of these AIs were trained on data sets that used copywritten content, AI isn’t “intelligent” and really is just a clever ways of parsing huge data sets, also is debatable if you can make something with AI that is truly yours using any of the current AI models, even doing custom trainings doesn’t eliminate what built the AI in the first place and the more something diverges from what work you trained it with the more it is other peoples work defining what it is producing.

I think people prefer to think of AI as magic though, the more you understand it the more boring it becomes imo. Could be/can be a useful tool but we have really yet to see where it will all shake out legally, anyone using it should probably truly learn how it works (I would say my understanding is still pretty low) and then make a personal ethical choice on if they want to use it or not.

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#17

Haha, totally. I’m sure people thought the abacus was the devil’s work. Progress is the work of Satan.

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#18

i have not attempted to get this working and dont plan to so i cant be of much help other than provide a link
https://github.com/rncm-prism/prism-samplernn

#19

the good ol’ days. human made techno 1967 :wink:
real old school techno

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#21

if i had to guess, i would say thats probably the only live techno track ever played on that particular system (which is 57 years old).