But it seems ”making music” has become more of ”Arranging or organizing already existing music. And to some degree, that is what always been the case. We use instruments and tones and chords and rythm, to combine and arrange and tweak, to sound both as what our inner references allow, and a tiny pint of ”me”, whatever that ingredient is.
Same with painters etc. Using what is, and often the most creative we can come up with is using these tools in ways not intended or not in a standard way.
And offcourse one can create ones own tools, instruments and even try to create new musical language if one has enough of a playing God complex.
More snd more, AI is coming for us. One can see it as a threath or as another more advanced tool.
Being a director means others are playing, you directing, interpreting a written work on paper.
Will AI become both player, arranger, director and writer of the script?
What role is left for humans?
Are we the tweakers of creation?
Maybe that is just what we always been.
Reality comes back too bite us in the foot.
Do you remember when drum machiines entered the market? It was going to be the end of drummers. Now 2022, yeah, drums can be had through multiple brands. But are there any drummers left? Yes. We humans loves to drum so we will continue to drum until sun explodes. It is deep in our DNA. We love to hear drums but also cant get too passive as we love to create beats.
Will any AI guitarist or bassist make us stop playing these instruments?
But maybe even more interesting. Will auto-mixing and intelligent mastering make those tasks obsolete?
Super experts at their craft seem to be left.
But also the more available techniqes seem to make more people able to realize their dreams.
Democratization of art and music. Snobbery and elitism is what may be distinct. Innovation and creative ways to use AI will not go away.
That is my guess.
So I am carefully optimistic about the progress.
But also, things gone a bit slow. But probably we are at a bigger threshold where soon it will be a ketchup effect, many groundbreaking things might make old apps and famous plugins obsolete too.
Virtual instrumentalists that listen and sync with you, vary intensity and velocity depending on your intentions and ques. Just as in a good gig. Virtual instrumentalists that can answer you musicaly, who can adapt to the singers enotional expression etc. These things will happen some day. And that emotional singer, is not even you, it is a virtual AI singer. You are merely the band leader or manager.
What will happen next in 2023? Not too much I guess, but at 2030…wow.