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There are still people that appreciate watching someone play a guitar or violin or piano, or make traditional art, because the character of the artist comes thr
by ristos 3y ago
There are still people that appreciate watching someone play a guitar or violin or piano, or make traditional art, because the character of the artist comes through. For example, with classical pieces, each musician plays the composition a little bit differently, and so their character comes through, their soul. I don't think a machine can really replace that, because there are still people that like to listen to live artists play at a classical concert or in a coffeeshop, when that same music has been able to be composed electronically for a couple of decades now.
The problem though is that fewer and fewer people are interested in this sort of thing and more interested in generic electronic garbage background music, as others have said. Classical concerts are getting less attendance over time, there are less acoustic or live performances, etc. People altogether seem to no longer buy traditional art because they can buy prints that look good on the wall. The point of buying traditional art isn't just it looking good, because like musicians, the character of the artist and their personality comes through in the paint strokes, color choices, design, composition, etc. Which is why people close to the artist often appreciate the work even more than a stranger would (ie: your 4-old child's school drawing), because the way it's created reminds you of that person and their soul/spirit.
- ristos 3y agoNot sure why I got downvoted. There's a false dichotomy here... I agree that there are really cool things with this technology, opening up a lot of possibilities for music creation for those that aren't well versed in music composition to get their ideas out. I think that's great. Just like how electronic music allowed us to have digital recordings to play the same song cheaply over and over again, and also allowed people to create great tracks with only knowledge of music composition and no need to learn an instrument. That still doesn't change some drawbacks, which is what you lose when you do that. It's mostly an economics thing. There's value to having artisanal products over industrial ones because of the craftsmanship involved. The artist or craftsman's personal touch ends up as part of the piece. That used to be common but now it's just a high end product for rich people to afford. There's a downside to these kinds of technologies, even if they bring benefits.
- dave333 3y agoNothing wrong with traditional art. But AI is already fairly good at imitating specific artists or writers, so why not performers? Also what if a new AI performance or style develops its own character that may be valid in the same way as human performers are?
- helboi4 3y agoElectronic music can involve virtuousity and high levels of knowledge and skill. If you actually learnt about electronic music production you would realise that as a whole its pretty highly technical and actually requires knowledge not only of music, but actual physics (yes I mean the science) and a great command of a computer or great skill with many digital instruments. AI music is not a continuation of the degrading of music away from the "one true music" that is classical. All types of music up until AI music have required skill to create. Being able to have a digital audio workspace on your laptop with a few presets did make it a little easier to make trash, sure. But most electronic music requires massive technical expertise in so many more fields than playing the guitar does. I know because I've learnt both. Electronic music production requires you to master software, multiple pieces of hardware, understand the physics of waveforms deeply, understand music theory, be a composer of an entire symphony and the performer of every part of that symphony at the same time, understand sound design (which is a whole job on its own), and then learn to dj if you hope to promote your music. Also people go to rock gigs all the time that are performed on live guitars etc so I dunno what you're on about.
- butlike 3y agoA little incendiary, but I agree with the underlying sentiment. It's gonna be a coexistence thing, not a zero-sum game. The important part is not to bemoan the other side, if they like acoustic singer-songwriters or "generic electronic garbage" I mean, popular electronic music.