Like many classically trained musicians, I feel ambivalence towards the introduction of AI into the creation of music. It was partly for this reason that I enjoyed Maya Ackerman's nuanced keynote at the AI & Music Creativity conference at Wolfson College, Oxford, this morning. #aimusic #digital-scholarship
@andrewcusworth
Can you summarize some key points for us? I only compose occasionally, but as musician and especially as a music teacher I am very concerned about the future of AI music generation.
@voltronic Absolutely! I still have ambivalence for the technology itself, but I think the overall attitude was one that emphasised use in human creation (song-writing &c. by actual people, possibilities of teaching people these practices) rather than as a replacement for human creation.
@voltronic I think what interested me beyond the broad shape of that was that May specifically spoke to the idea that investors seek industry disruption (ie decimation of traditional music industry) as a means to generate maximum profit, and that musicians finding ways to harness it and join the conversation properly is a route to avoiding that decimation. There was a lot to think about and agree with in the talk, even if I am deeply troubled by the very real commercial risks to musicians.
@voltronic These were, of course, mainly seen through my filters on the talk. It was sponsored by Digital Scholarship at Oxford (the initiative I work for), and I think we are intending to make it available online. I'll post it when we do.