How people and AI could make music collectively

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 Middle for Laptop 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 referred to 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 fairly than making an attempt to grasp it, and the way software makers must be approaching their work in a time of AI.

This dialog goes some surprising and deep locations, as so many conversations about AI are likely to. We speak quite a bit about what it means to be inventive, and even human, in a world crammed with know-how meant to make all the pieces extra environment friendly, simpler, and extra homogenous.

Whether or not you’re writing an electronic mail or a symphony, there’s a software on the market designed to make it simpler. However is simpler the objective? And if it’s not, how can 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 received deep. However we loved it, and we expect you’ll too.

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