AI Music - When it's Actually Good

[vixen1700]

Listening to stuff on Youtube last night and a mix inspired by Portishead/Tricky/Morcheeba came up. Obviously AI and was passable but hardly inspiring.

Then another channel popped up that included '60s and '70s psychadelic bands popped up and looking at the comments, people weren't sure if these bands were actually obscure lost bands or AI generated.

Which lead into more comments like, I know it's AI, but I like it even though I shouldn't etc.

This got us talking about how wrong it is for proper musicians and how easy it is to put a musical 'recipe' into AI and to come up with something really good and why aren't people coming up with stuff that's truly original using AI.

Also if you think AI is purely writing this stuff, why not get some humans to go out and play it live as it's so good. Instead of marketing it as 'old' music, market it as 'new' music.

Then the scarey notion of eradicating 'old' music and replacing it with 'new' old music so royalties no longer need to be paid. Great for the record companies!




The Fossils and other cool stuff on this Youtube channel:

https://m.youtube.com/@synforgerecords

Opinions?

[cherryowen]

Despite being a guitar player, I do watch a lot of piano lessons on YT to scrub up on chord progressions & theory and such like.

Anyway, David Bennett is pretty good and this is his take on things AI:-



I've used the "Suno" software before, and - after telling it to use a chord progression I've come up with and detailing the style of music to be used - the results are astonishing.

[marcosgt]

To be honest, what I listened to if the original link sounded like generic lift music versions of 60s music.

I got bored pretty quickly, I'll admit, but it sounded exactly what it was, something someone (or a machine) would come up with if given a load of 60s psychedelic music and told to come up with 'something similar'.

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[RSTurboPaul]

SethDrums has some amusing AI songs on his channel, as well as some that are remarkably good.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZbZyok79ZU




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piNujLi91js

[Robertb]

Showing my age, but so much modern music sounds so derivative, overproduced and boring I'd struggle to tell it apart from something produced with AI.

AI music generally reminds me of one of those cheap-ish New Zealand sauvignon blancs... all wow! grapefruity! for the first mouthful, then gets boring and gives me a headache.

[Cold]

Promptgenix has been saturating my socials recently. It's got a pleasant enough funk/blues/steampunk vibe to it, although some might suggest there's a lot of similarity between the various pieces, but that could be said for many artists.
"Alien music you’ve never heard"

There are plenty of audio tracks to be found on his Youtube channel which just makes it a pity he doesn't seem to upload full length videos to Youtube, just a selection of tasters via YT Shorts, such as:
https://youtube.com/shorts/gCi8vlAXeWY?si=Ctv5nEzq...
or https://youtube.com/shorts/-DS9RDBiPdI?si=PUNM05ci...
or https://youtube.com/shorts/HVBEQm6RQH4?si=npQqW7bN...

The Youtube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/@Promptgenix666/featured but you can find him mostly on TikTok and Insta.

[Frimley111R]

Saw this on social media and thought "This guy sounds really good" so looked him up on Spotify. he had 770k monthly listens...and he's AI!

Honestly 'he' sounds amazingly good. Check this out, super cool track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSGhyrF7YVo

How long before this is like ABBA Voyage and you go to concerts where its all AI?

[DodgyGeezer]

RSTurboPaul said:

SethDrums has some amusing AI songs on his channel, as well as some that are remarkably good.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZbZyok79ZU




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piNujLi91js

SethDrums is rather good in places - I recently heard his Motorhead/Ace of Spades 'dark country'

https://youtube.com/shorts/9ErZXKvCU_Q?si=-PexQXWV...

[Tracklover]

I am sure everyone on PH has long enjoyed music changed by autotune, or with a synthetic drum beat. AI is just a progression of this trend, albeit a big leap.

On a similar note, I read recently that a human audience preferred AI poetry to human written poetry. And were poor at distinguishing the two.

[Hoofy]

I enjoy creating my own music but inspired by this thread, I decided to pass one of my songs through an AI to see what it would do. Dunno why I bother trying to create music.