Generative AI Will Soon Disrupt Music
That happened to graphic design; now it’s the turn of the music
A few times, I’ve had a dream where for no reason, I find myself playing the lead guitar with an unbelievable speed and inspiration in front of an audience. Well, that was a dream, wasn’t it? So when I wake up in the morning, I realize that my guitar playing level isn’t even intermediate in real life. Ups, that’s humbling.
But, shortly, situations like this won’t be pipe dreams anymore.
Oh, by the way, if your dreams involve more like a classic orchestra that you are conducting, it’s roughly the same.
You know, what sets real musicians apart from us amateurs is that they can master complexity. Complexity mastery can take the form of finger dexterity, knowledge about how to set up instrumentation properly, or being able to handle musical notation as second nature. But in all cases, musicians have such a title because, through a long and sometimes painful process, they got familiar with the intricacies of so many details involved in a musical piece.
We’d wish music was less complicated, but it’s precisely through frequent exposition that what used to be difficult becomes easy little by little.
Some readers will say, “Well, that’s the way any trade is; tell me something new.” But that’s not…
