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AI and ChatGPT is changing our world and it’s creeping into creative art forms such as music. Maybe it’ll potentially benefit some artists, but there is a fear that it could impact both artists and creative industries negatively as well.
Take this instance for example, someone has made a fake episode of the the Joe Rogan Experience podcast using AI technology! Things are getting out of control and I'm asking the question ‘what the heck are we doing?’ This type of action raises huge questions of legality, ownership of copyright and the world of the creative arts as a whole.
AI technology is already capable of using voice recognition to create voice duplication. This allows it to reproduce the voice of your favourite singers. Pieces of music are being generated with artificial voices singing lyrics that were generated by a computer. Some of these AI voices sound scarily close to the voices that you know and love, like Taylor Swift, Arianna Grande, Adele, Ed Sheeran, Frank Ocean or Bruno Mars.
I'm arguing that this is wrong. It’s the wrong way to be utilising this technology. It’s also blatantly disrespect and in poor taste to mimic other people’s voices, other people’s work, in such an egregious way.
But the cat is out of the bag and its opened up a bag (or can) of worms. This is the biggest technological change in society since the advent of the internet. And from a creative arts perspective, this is arguably the biggest technological change ever.
This is going to change the trajectory of not only us as a species but also of our creative endeavours. From now on, there will be the pre-AI period and the post-AI period.
When considering the history of music, we can draw a line in the sand and say that basically everything created up to the year 2023 was made by people without the overarching influence and impact of AI. So that means that all the music we've had until now is irrefutably human, in the sense that it'll always exist as an entirely human creation. It'll always be there and those original recordings will always exist.
The future will be different - it will likely be an amalgam of our human creative intelligence combined with some sort of an artificial kind. Utimately, there'll be music made of an entirely artifical nature and I find that concept both unfortunate and abhorrent.
But one thing is for sure, our human-created music up to this point is now set in stone and it will last as our enduring human legacy forever.
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In this episode I talk about the missing drum kits within modern pop music.
I miss hearing the sound of real drums being played in modern music and I was reminded of just how much I miss it when I heard En Vogue's 1997 single 'Don't Let Go' being played on the radio at a shopping mall.
Long live real drums!
In this follow-up episode I answer 20 more questions related to music and me.
In this episode I answer 20 questions related to music and me.
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This episode is a continuition of the key music that has shaped my life. Moving on into early adulthood, I experienced many changes with respect to what I was listening to.
New worlds were opening up, my horizons were expanding, my tastes were gaining more depth and flavour, and many ideas about what music was were being blown apart.
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Have you ever gone to a live concert on your own? If yes, then good on you for making the decision to actually go and experience the music of an artist or band that you love.
Don't miss out just because someone else's schedule doesn't align with yours or no one else likes a particular musician that you do. Go your own way! (Pardon the Fleetwood Mac reference).
Live music is one of the great things that you can experience, irrespective of whether you are attending solo or with friends. When you go solo, you are not really alone anyway, because the minute you arrive at the venue you are surrounded by people. You are part of a community that wants to be there, a community of music lovers who are all there for the same reason and to experience the same thing.
Don't hesitate the next time someone is playing live in your city, if you really want to go and see them. Get there, be there, and be part of the real thing that is live music.
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In this episode I talk with Arthur Turnbull, the lead voice of The Music Snobs Podcast.
We explore many topics including the definition of a music snob, generational differences in music taste and discovery, the evolution of music and the influence of TikTok.
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And you can follow The Music Snobs on Twitter and Instagram.
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In this episode I talk with Daniele Bolelli, host of The Drunken Taoist and History On Fire podcasts.
Daniele is also a writer and university professor with a passion for philosophy, history and music.
We explore the interesection of those subjects in this episode of OBM.
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