For almost a century people have been fascinated with using electronic machines to make music. Artists like Bruce Haack, Kraftwerk, and Daft Punk have embraced machines as an essential theme, with their creations being a composition by humans, but sounding like it was performed by robots.
But what if things went the other way around? What would it sound like if artificial intelligence composed music in the style of humans?
What the? Yep, this is what it sounds like when a computer composes pop music in the style of the Beatles. Titled “Daddy’s Car”, it’s kinda beautiful and creepy at the same time. Although it was composed by a program, it was arranged and produced by (a human) composer, Benoît Carré.
The Flow Machines software trawls through a database and 'studies' artists' back catalogues, figuring out what makes them unique. It then composes a melody and harmony based on what it's learned from its searching and analysing. Pretty crazy, right?
It's not the first time a computer program has been asked to get creative. Artificial intelligence has written a short film, and can generate strange art too
I can only wonder what the future of creativity might be like. Will our kids' music, painting, photography and design stand a chance or will their creative efforts be made irrelevant by future machines?
Like DJ Lance Rock jamming with Plex, I hope the future is a peaceful and creative co-existence with our robot buddies!
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