Put Down your Instruments, Give Up, A.I Generated Music is Here

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Tom Tye

02 Oct 2018

Well, almost...

As humanity charges forwards toward the singularity, you can cast your worries aside in the knowledge that infinitely-generated versions of your favourite bands and artists' music are just around the corner.

Tech collective Botnik Studios have just demonstrated the possibilities of musical AI by releasing a song based on The Strokes' lyrics, written by AI, as part of their mathematically perfect pop album, The Songularity.

Generated by algorithms, the lyrics to "I Don't Want To Be There" were collaboratively written between a human and a computer, and genuinely sound like something the Strokes may have come up with if they wrote and recorded infinite tunes.

CEO Jamie Brew in an interview with Medium said, “I expect we’ll continue to see AI tech that tries to help people do things as fast as they can while making the fewest possible decisions.” Dazed recently launged a campaign called AGE OF AI, which is exploring the future relationship between musicians and AI, and it's impact on the future of creative industries.