Music Made of Plastic (Cont)

 

There's a difference between music for music's sake and music for recording's sake, or AI's sake. It has a connection with the whole robot idea and how real pets interact with robot pets: at first, they are annoyed by them, and then they develop a relationship--even though the organic factors aren't there, such as the olfactory and pheromonic. I've developed that same kind of relationship with AI music. It's sometimes difficult to interact with in real time because it's just churned up samples in an LLM appearing to be music. You look under the hood, and it's just a plastic replica of an engine, which is now essentially just a battery. 

New technologies always challenge the idea of our relationships with the world and the objects in it. From Rob Kitchin's Code/Space: "Coded objects are objects that are reliant on software to perform as designed. Coded machine-readable objects might not have any software embedded in them but rely on external code to function." AI music runs on a code other than music theory. Potentially, you could write a prompt to say "Use modal interchange in the harmony" and it will give you bVII, bIII and bVI chords in the mix--or "put chromatic extensions on every chord" and you'd get jazz. 

Excerpt Library (Technology): "Discuss how new technologies challenge the idea of our relationships with the world and the objects in it."