'It was always the plan to put the world in your hand', or so Bo Burnham gibed in his lockdown musing on performativity and creativity. The latest wave of the digital revolution, Artificial Intelligence (AI), has been quietly colouring the world of song writing and music production for some time. How to introduce students to the ever-growing array of tools for music creation, while combating the omnipresent challenge of plagiarism, is a task that requires us to rethink traditional notions of authorship and creativity in the digital age.
Looking at software options is a good place to begin.
Splice quietly released their new AI feature, Create, in Beta at the end of the summer, and it has been making subtle waves throughout the music production community. For anyone unfamiliar with the platform, Splice.com is a hub for music production, bringing together freemium sample libraries, loops, instruments and plugins, projects, and sounds from over two million artists to create an online community of music-makers. Create, the latest addition to Splice's impressive arsenal of creative tools, is their first foray into the murky world of AI.
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