The intro song of Dutch DJ and producer Armin Van Buuren’s annual mix album ‘A State of Trance 2023’, released earlier this month, is titled “Am I AI". The album marks the 20th year of his trance music mix, and AI found its way into it as well. While the song is not AI-generated, a number of music artists embraced AI this year, highlighting the technology's ubiquity in the creative field.
Interestingly, 60 percent of musicians are already using AI to make music. Here are some of the artists who leveraged AI to enhance their creative process.
David Guetta
French DJ and producer David Guetta played a song in one of his sets earlier this year that featured rapper Eminem’s voice. With the help of an AI-generating website, Guetta explains how he created the voice using AI. The track was a big hit at the show, but Guetta clarified later that it won’t be used for commercial purposes.
Grimes
Canadian musician and producer Grimes, has been openly propagating the use of AI in music creation. Grimes launched her generative AI software Elf.tech earlier this year, and has allowed others to use her AI-generated voice. She also said that she’ll take a 50% royalty on any successful AI-generated song.
The Beatles
This year witnessed the release of iconic British band The Beatles' last unfinished song, ‘Now and Then’, where John Lennon’s voice was resurrected. The last song, originally a demo given to McCartney by Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and recorded on a cassette while Lennon played the piano, has been worked on by McCartney with AI. Benefiting from AI assistance featured in the 'Get Back' documentary, the song was mixed by McCartney, enabling a joint performance with Lennon during his recent tour.
HYBE
Hybe, the Korean music powerhouse responsible for BTS, had employed voice AI to debut their news artist Midnatt, in various languages at the same time. The songs were launched in six languages including Korean, English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese.
Taryn Southern
Taryn Southern, an American singer-songwriter, holds the distinction of being the first popstar to create and produce a full album entirely with the assistance of AI, titled ‘I Am AI'. Southern utilised a blend of tools such as IBM’s Watson Beat, Amper, AIVA, and Google Magenta. In each instance, AI was responsible for composing the notation, and in the case of Amper, the AI also produced the instrumentation.
Shawn Everett
Canadian music engineer and Grammy-winning producer Shawn Everett who is known for creating unique sounds for music production, has been experimenting with AI for quite some time now. He explored Open AI's Jukebox during the creation of an unreleased song by the Killers.
Everett entered a chord progression written by Brandon Flowers and directed the AI to extend it in the style of Pink Floyd.
Armin Van Buuren
Dutch DJ and trance music king, Armin Van Buuren has dabbled with various music compositions and AI too. His track, ‘Computers Take Over the World,’ had vocals that were generated by the voice assistant of a Macbook, and all the promotional assets including artwork, and the music video for the track were co-created using AI.
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