u/SensoriRumeMusic

We’ve never been more connected, more informed, or more certain. So why can’t we hear each other?

“Teach Me Your Sky” is about a father realizing that understanding his daughter doesn’t mean teaching her to communicate like everyone else - it means learning how she experiences the world. In the album’s sci-fi story, that realization becomes the key to understanding alien civilizations whose voices have been dismissed as meaningless noise. It’s basically the moment where he stops asking her to come into his world and asks if she’ll show him hers.

A lot of generative AI is just fun disposable stuff like memes, funny songs, weird AI videos, interesting pictures etc. I've done tons of that and that's probably what most casual users use it for. But I wonder what happens when people start using it for things that are like a lot more personal.

So I recently finished a 9 song concept album using AI. I'm not linking it because I'm not trying to promote it, but it's just what got me thinking about this.

I've played guitar for something like 37 years, so music isn't new to me, but there's no realistic or practical way I could have made something like this on my own. Multiple voices, numerous instruments, arrangements, production, all of it. What surprised me wasn't really that AI could generate the music (which it's getting even scarily better at, hence the new changes in ToS for all the major AI music players), but more what happens when we start putting something actually personal into it.

The album is loosely based around my relationship with my daughter, who is mostly nonverbal, and autistic. I turned that into a rock opera science fiction story about communication and had an album built around it.

Interestingly, it got way more emotional than I expected. There were parts I worked on over and over, because they weren't saying what I wanted them to say, or it did say what I wanted but not how, for example. A lot of it frankly caught me off guard emotionally. I cried making some of it given the personal nature of it. But not because I thought the AI understood what it was making, but because I did and how it made me feel.

I just think there's something interesting and emergent happening here that gets lost in all the daily arguments about AI slop. People use ChatGPT to talk through incredibly personal things all the time. So why couldn't somebody use generative music, video, images, writing, whatever, to build a larger experience around something they actually care about?

Not just "look at this cool thing AI made" and especially not with hopes of turning it into some kind of "side hustle". It's more like, "this was something in my head that I didn't have a practical way to make before, and now I do."

I really believe we're going to see some really interesting and profound things once more people start experimenting with that.

PS I probably should've asked ChatGPT to make it sound less like ChatGPT. I'm old, I like to write sentences.

why do I love making cheesy pop songs

Considering how Suno (aka a 5 billion dollar valuation company) just bent the knee for WMG on strictly limiting downloads (how strict one feels is dependant on their individual use cases) it makes me truly wonder if anyone might look upon Udio's situation with a softer light in regard to what they were forced to do, being a company that was a mere fraction of the size.

Thoughts? Especially for those who jumped ship to Suno last fall believing they were somehow immune to the imminent changes?

The other interesting thing is that UMG is still in litigation with Suno, and we know with absolute certainty that they want ALL downloads shut down, given what happened here. Udio's agreement with WMG barely registered on the radar in light of the UMG agreement.

Universal Music Group, for those who aren't aware, is the largest music company in the world. It commands roughly 32% to 38% of the global recorded music and publishing market and they have yet to settle. 🤔

I can't believe my most popular Suno song was made 30(!) months ago! It was such a Wild West back then. There were no profiles or categories, just one big list and if you managed to get on it your views skyrocketed lol.

I did my best to change/update the terrible echoes/neon/AI-isms from the original song

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You've been warned 👮

I think a lot of people underestimate how different the AI music conversation will look in just a few years. Right now, most people are judging AI based on original generations. I don't think that's what ultimately changes public opinion.

When licensed remixing platforms kick off, they're going to reshape the landscape and change how people view AI-generated music.

People will be hearing their favorite songs performed in the convincingly authentic voices of other artists, all through licensed AI covers.

For example, imagine someone generates a Maroon 5 version of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, but instead of a cliched karaoke version, it sounds from start to end like a genuinely great recording. Catchy enough that as it gets shared, millions simply add it to their playlists alongside the original.

I believe that's when public perception changes. AI won't just be making boilerplate "AI music" as much as it will be expanding the catalog of popular music people already love on the whole, but now driven by our own endless appetite for covers and mashups. And more importantly, being able to both reconnect with, or discover depending on your generation, traditional artists in new ways.

Interestingly, future artists may find themselves competing with (creatively speaking) licensed AI versions of themselves. However, these versions aren't bound by what we historically consider a reasonable amount of time to produce a song, or even an album. Production is effectively instantaneous, and the well of creativity and ideas is fathomless.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think this is the moment that fundamentally changes how the public thinks about AI music.

Curious whether anyone else sees it this way.

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Hello empty subreddit!

Drop any comments or thoughts about the upcoming app in here, or even just share your thoughts about a future where traditional artists are properly compensated for allowing their music / likenesses to be used for the purpose of making new music/remixes/whatever with what Uncharted Labs has been cooking or any other AI music generator that may or may not be letting users use real likenesses *coughtreblocough*