Making human music in an AI world

Ge Wang doesn’t use computer systems to make music the best way most individuals use computer systems make music. He makes use of computer systems to make… laptop music. Wang works at Stanford, as an affiliate professor within the Heart for Pc Analysis in Music and Acoustics. He additionally conducts the varsity’s famed Laptop computer Orchestra, was a co-founder of the music app maker Smule, and created a programming language known as Chuck that turns code into sound. He understands how computer systems, music, and people work together extra deeply than most. He additionally has some concepts about the place it’s all headed.

On this episode of The Vergecast, the third and final in our mini-series about the way forward for music, we chat with Wang about what’s subsequent for laptop music. He tells us about instructing his college students to play with know-how somewhat than attempting to grasp it, and the way instrument makers needs to be approaching their work in a time of AI.

This dialog goes some sudden and deep locations, as so many conversations about AI are likely to. We discuss rather a lot about what it means to be artistic, and even human, in a world full of know-how meant to make the whole lot extra environment friendly, easier, and extra homogenous.

Whether or not you’re writing an e-mail or a symphony, there’s a instrument on the market designed to make it simpler. However is simpler the purpose? And if it’s not, how will we protect all of the issues that make the arduous work price doing? What are we, the people, even right here for anymore? Like I stated, it obtained deep. However we loved it, and we predict you’ll too.

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