"Break Free" is the first track to be released on the new album by American singer and actress Taryn Southern. The song, like the entire album as a whole, was created with the participation of a certain artist under the name Amper, but what from the outside might seem like an ordinary collaboration between artists, in fact, turned out to be not at all what it seemed.
Taryn is quite famous in her country and has been making music for a long time. She first appeared on television screens back in 2004, while participating in the American talent show American Idol. She has over 500 million views on YouTube and over 450,000 subscribers. For Ampere, the release of the album will be the debut. And the truth is that he (or it) is not human.
Ampere is artificial intelligence (at least that's what its creators call it), and also a composer, producer and performer. It was developed by a team of professional musicians and technology experts and is in fact the first AI to create a full-fledged music album. It is symbolically called "I AM AI" and went on sale on August 21st.
You can watch the song "Break Free" in the video below. According to the description of the video, the entire video sequence and music were created by artificial intelligence.
Drew Silverstein, film composer and one of the creators of Ampere, explained to TechCrunch that it does not work solely on its own and was created specifically for teamwork with musicians.
“We generally believe that in the future, music will be created with the collaboration of humans and artificial intelligence. And we want this shared experience to start as early as possible and move this creative process forward,”commented Silverstein.
The team notes that, unlike other songs created by AI algorithms, all the chords and instrumental of the composition "Break Free" were written and used exclusively by Ampere. According to the creators, Ampere ultimately destroys the model according to which the current AI algorithms used to create music work. Usually, in such cases, the result that is obtained using the algorithm then undergoes a rather serious alteration by people. In other words, in fact, all the main and complex work is done by a person. As the creators of Ampere point out in a press release, "the typical process of creating music with an AI algorithm involves the manual work of a person who makes significant changes, including even changes to chords and melodies in the compositions created by this algorithm."
But with Ampere everything is different. As stated above, he himself creates all the chord structures and picks the right sounds. In the future, a human composer is only concerned with "cutting", if it is necessary to adjust everything to the general style and rhythm. And most interestingly, thanks to machine learning technologies, Ampere can create music in a matter of seconds. An example of a created Ampere melody is here. Here you can listen to Taryn's arrangement.
Promotional video:
Despite the fact that "I AM AI" is the first studio album recorded with the help of artificial intelligence, this is not the first time that AI is engaged in creativity and creates music and other works of art (if you can call them that).
For example, Aiva's AI algorithm was trained to create classic melodies. And the DeepBach algorithm is capable of producing music that clearly takes inspiration from the German classic Johann Sebastian Bach.
The first studio album recorded by AI is just the first step into a new musical era, where people will not only share their artistry with artificial intelligence, but also to some extent be able to compete with it.
Nikolay Khizhnyak