AI composition: What will it bring to pop music?
Author：Eve Cole
Update Time：2024-11-22 19:54:01
In recent years, with the development of science and technology, AI (artificial intelligence) has penetrated into various fields of literary and artistic creation, and has gradually given rise to a revolution in artistic creation models. In the field of popular music, a batch of AI composition software has been rapidly iteratively upgraded, effectively promoting the structural optimization of new works, enhancing the ability to expand melody, and promoting the survival of the fittest in popular music works to a certain extent. The threshold for AI creation is getting lower and lower, making it possible to become a “national producer”. Against this background, the impact of AI on pop music creation has become a hot topic.
A band is performing at Miaoxi Primary School in Ganji Township, Hengyang County, Hengyang City, Hunan Province. Xinhua News Agency reported that compared to other music forms, AI has a more profound impact on popular music. Currently, AI composition software has emerged in large numbers and is gradually becoming popular among musicians and music lovers. Take some AI composition software as an example. To create a popular song, the user must first enter a description of the song on the website, which is the meta tag of the AI composition, which can include jazz, rock, electronic and other music styles, as well as mysterious, lyrical and other music. You can also specify the accompaniment instruments and melody structure of the song. You can also input a piece of music within 60 seconds and ask the AI to create a song similar to it. In this way, you can create a song in a few steps. This mode not only reduces the difficulty of operation for users, but also gives them full creative freedom. As a directive existence, meta tags determine the basic direction of music creation. The more specific and accurate the meta tag is, the closer it is to the creator's ideal music. After completing the setting of the meta tag, as the creator enters lyrics, selects vocals, and clicks the generate button, a complete pop song can be created within a few dozen seconds. When the song creation is completed, the AI composition software will provide two versions of the work for the creator to choose. The creator can rewrite and continue writing any version of the work, and continuously enter meta tags to repeatedly adjust the song. Although AI composition is not an artistic creation in the traditional sense, it still follows certain rules, which is consistent with human-led artistic creation. Specifically, the structure of pop songs created by artificial intelligence is usually relatively fixed, basically follows the rules of harmony, uses more electroacoustic instruments, and is often accompanied by an obvious sense of rhythm. In addition, compared to music types such as light music, orchestral music, and Chinese ethnic music, AI is better at writing pop songs, and the group of creators using AI are also more inclined to create pop music. Because of this, artificial intelligence composition technology has a more profound impact on popular music than other music forms. First of all, AI composition has changed the traditional pop music production model, transferring the skills of music creation from professional musicians to ordinary fans, and realizing the transformation of pop music from production to consumption. Secondly, AI composition technology has improved the production speed of popular music. The optimized and upgraded AI composition software can create unlimited times in a day and avoid generating the same music while ensuring the basic creation quality. Finally, AI composition has a low threshold and can be participated by all people, inspiring more people's enthusiasm for music creation, increasing the influence of pop music from the audience level, and realizing the popularization of pop music through the participation of all people. AI composition maintains a high level of musicality. AI composition is helpful in solving some existing problems in popular music. In the era of streaming media, with the rise of short video platforms, the music market has been plagued by saliva songs for a long time. As we all know, the underlying logic of AI composition software is to learn and imitate the various inherent data, styles and patterns of popular songs. The database for AI learning is often high-quality songs created by outstanding pop musicians. Slobbery songs and other vulgar pop songs are not. will become their learning object. This also indicates that AI composition in the future will still maintain a high level of musicality at least, which to a certain extent can squeeze the living space of saliva songs and promote the development of pop music towards higher quality. In addition, during the process of composing with AI, the author found that if a real composer is mentioned in the meta tag instruction given to it, the prompt "Generation failed, the artist's name cannot be included in the description" will be received. This shows that these current compositions The software has a strong sense of protecting the copyright of musical works. Some AI composing software officials have pointed out that they have review methods for identifying and detecting AI music works. Although the accuracy of this function still needs to be investigated, at least it can conduct timely review of the most complex copyright issues in popular music. Regulation. However, there are still obvious areas for optimization in AI composition. For example, although the work can be rewritten repeatedly, the music is not innovative enough. The rewritten music is not much different from the previous version, has low ability to process accurately, and has a certain degree of randomness. From an auditory point of view, AI composition has a recognizable "fragmentation" feeling. The connection between the various parts is not very smooth, which easily creates the feeling of two or more songs spliced together. The above problems are expected to be improved and solved with the iterative upgrade of artificial intelligence, but new problems brought about by technological innovation also need to be faced squarely. As mentioned earlier, the emergence of AI composition has broken down the barriers between ordinary people and popular music creation, making popular music creation accessible to everyone. In this process, some popular musicians and music lovers have become over-reliant on AI composition. For example, due to the fun of AI composition and the sense of accomplishment it gives to creators, some people have become obsessed with AI composition. They use AI to create at least one popular song almost every day and publish it on the Internet, share it widely, and never tire of it. This has brought about The result is that music creation seems to have become entertainment and child's play, dispelling the seriousness of creation. For another example, due to the extremely efficient characteristics of AI composition, some professional musicians, after experiencing the "sweetness" of using AI, are always accustomed to using AI to find "inspiration" first. Over time, they will be led by the AI, which will lead to their creative ability being compromised. of reduction. Make good use of AI and don’t let it lead you by the nose. Will AI composition replace human creation? This is the most discussed issue since the emergence of AI composition. The advancement of science and technology has brought more or less worry and panic to people. Many people have said that "pop musicians will lose their jobs collectively." Indeed, with the upgrade of artificial intelligence, the gap between AI composition and musician creation has gradually narrowed, even surpassing the works of many musicians. In fact, AI will accelerate the survival of the fittest in musical works, but as long as a musician maintains his passion for creation and insists on his unique thinking about artistic creation, he will never be replaced. On the one hand, although artificial intelligence is developing rapidly, fundamentally, it is people who determine the height of its development. A small step forward for technology often means a big step forward for mankind. To a certain extent, the logic of AI represents human logic. It transforms popular music into a pattern based on human creativity. To put it simply, people innovate in music creation models, and AI understands these innovations into a working model. Therefore, composers must clarify where the boundaries of human creation are, fully understand and give full play to the creativity and innovation of artists, and use and control AI to better promote the innovative development of popular music. On the other hand, people have rich experiences and emotions and grow up in different family environments, school environments and social environments. The creation of each song reflects a person's true experience of life and emotions. AI learns the results of human creation rather than the process, and it cannot learn the human process. This is the most fundamental difference between humans and AI. At present, the music created by AI is ultimately a copy of previous works, which cannot reflect the understanding and interpretation of art in the creation, let alone accurately express people's emotions and feelings. From this point of view, AI can change the creation model of pop music and empower pop music creation, but the true artistic creation still needs to be completed by humans. To sum up, the impact of AI on popular music is complex and profound. It is accelerating the change of the development model of popular music that has been fixed for decades. At the same time, it is forcing musicians to think about how to deal with challenges and how to bring into full play the irreplaceable artistic creation of human beings. To the extreme. It revitalized pop music and activated a pool of spring water. Therefore, the development of AI is both a challenge and an opportunity for pop music. On the one hand, we must use AI to continuously find new possibilities for pop music; on the other hand, we must always be vigilant and respond to new problems brought about by technology, and we must not be let down by it. Lead the way by the nose.
