Great post on how AI will shape the music industry for times to come. Chris hit some great points on how AI will upend the industry. If I can broadly summarize the two areas covered here that the music industry will change that is in the Music Production space and Music Consumption space. That is where we can see immediate change due to AI...
... Think capabilities such as Muzak, royalty free libraries, on-demand sounds, stem seperation functionalities, virtual mixer boards and DJ Software, Playlist and Song recommendations.. all point to how AI will augment the Music Production and Music Consumption areas.
Bigger question is: How does AI change Music Distribution? The industry never really recovered from the revenue dilution due to Napster and torrent networks.
Also let's not forget DJ software such as Virtual DJ and Serato. Such have added scratching automation functionalities (from experience these are quite convincing), real-time key match and of course stem separation. Another subindustry that is very much influenced by AI these days.
Some of these GenAI music tools are simply mind-blowing. A few months ago, I started incorporating such programs into my production workflow. Definitely useful; but you still need a solid background to make them work.
as an exercise it might be interesting to take music that is out of copyright and synthesize with modern rhythms and synthesizer tones. see what happens. this would be akin to an assist for composers.
Great post on how AI will shape the music industry for times to come. Chris hit some great points on how AI will upend the industry. If I can broadly summarize the two areas covered here that the music industry will change that is in the Music Production space and Music Consumption space. That is where we can see immediate change due to AI...
... Think capabilities such as Muzak, royalty free libraries, on-demand sounds, stem seperation functionalities, virtual mixer boards and DJ Software, Playlist and Song recommendations.. all point to how AI will augment the Music Production and Music Consumption areas.
Bigger question is: How does AI change Music Distribution? The industry never really recovered from the revenue dilution due to Napster and torrent networks.
Also let's not forget DJ software such as Virtual DJ and Serato. Such have added scratching automation functionalities (from experience these are quite convincing), real-time key match and of course stem separation. Another subindustry that is very much influenced by AI these days.
Interesting. I’m not as familiar with the DJ tech
Some of these GenAI music tools are simply mind-blowing. A few months ago, I started incorporating such programs into my production workflow. Definitely useful; but you still need a solid background to make them work.
as an exercise it might be interesting to take music that is out of copyright and synthesize with modern rhythms and synthesizer tones. see what happens. this would be akin to an assist for composers.
Great piece thanks for sharing. As a former screenwriter the future of media is definitely getting interesting. Would love your thoughts
https://open.substack.com/pub/matthewharris/p/the-future-of-media?r=298d1j&utm_medium=ios