I know, everyone is writing and podcasting about AI at the moment – YAWN! But the AI generation of music (audio) has just taken another huge leap forward, and in this podcast I wonder what it means for the teaching and learning of music creation – composition, songwriting, producing, and so on. Can students just get AI to do their work for them? Should we be encouraging it or banning it? And if the really good technologies make audio, not MIDI, how easy is it to create a score for that audio (in school systems where a score is still required)? I’ve created a load of tracks with Suno.ai and I’ll be breaking them down. Here is the score of Broken Pieces, one of the tracks that I speak about:
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Here is a transcript also made by AI (so it won’t be 100% accurate!):
