AI Generated Music
Jun. 24th, 2025 01:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenI read an article mentioning AI-generated pop music; apparently, AI can generate formulaic pop music, which, if not great, isn’t worse than similar music composed by humans. There is an issue, it seems, with the people owning the AI collecting royalties because (I am not giving any advice about intellectual property) you’re only supposed to obtain a copyright on something which you created, not something which a computer created.
It got me thinking: could a more advanced AI generate cantatas and organ fugues which sounded just as if they had been composed by J.S. Bach? Symphonies that Beethoven didn’t get around to writing, but which could have been his work? If we find the music beautiful, would it matter that it was the product of a neural network or a set of algorithms, instead of a man of genius?
It got me thinking: could a more advanced AI generate cantatas and organ fugues which sounded just as if they had been composed by J.S. Bach? Symphonies that Beethoven didn’t get around to writing, but which could have been his work? If we find the music beautiful, would it matter that it was the product of a neural network or a set of algorithms, instead of a man of genius?
