Hi-Phi Nation: Rise of the Music Machines

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On this show we explore three different AI and machine-generated music technologies; vocal emulators that allow you to deep fake a singer or rapper’s voice, AI-generated compositions and text-to-music generators like Google Music LM and Open AI’s Jukebox, and musical improvisation technologies. We listen to the variety of music these technologies generate, and two guitarists face off against an AI in improvised guitar solos. Along the way, we talk to philosophers of music Robin James and Theodore Gracyk about what musical creativity is and whether machines are more or less creative than human musicians, and Barry gives his take on each of the technologies and what they mean for the future of musical creativity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.4	From...
0:37.4	Flake, Flake, Flake, Flake.
0:39.9	Last year, 10 musicians got a call from Google to help them do one of the most mind-numbing
0:46.2	jobs you could imagine. The company had 5.5,000 clips of music from YouTube. Music that
0:53.9	sounded like this.
0:55.4	And this.
1:02.4	And this.
1:07.4	And the job was to listen to every single one of these clips and describe them in words.
1:16.4	Like, take this example.
1:26.4	The description one of these musicians came up with was, this is a remix of an R&B sole
1:32.4	piece. There's a male vocal singing in a laid-back manner, joined by an auto-tune male vocal.
1:39.2	The atmosphere of the piece is groovy, and there's a feel-good aura to it. This piece
1:44.4	could be used in the soundtrack of a sitcom.
1:52.4	Well, they finished the job, and I crunched the numbers. These 10 people listened to
1:58.4	38 straight days worth of music. 92 hours each.
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