The concept of interactive AI music is gaining traction.

Lately I’ve been meeting many AI musicians. I enjoy that first day when I don’t yet grasp their artistic practice or fully follow what they say. But as we interact, our language becomes similar. Especially in how we refer to concepts/ideas. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad.

AI should be used to create art in ways that are both ethical and compelling. Ethics are important, but being compelling is just as important. If it isn’t, there’s little reason to use AI for artistic creation.

I would modulate that by saying that it's possible to create AI art that draws attention to its process, mechanics and biases - its artefacts and politics. But I think you probably agree with that already, there just aren't enough characters in posts to say it all in one.

Repetition is a human invention. Nature rarely repeats itself. Yet, we play the same music and films over and over. Generative art changes every time you experience it. What if generative AI ends up feeling more NATURAL than the static media of today?

Got the Pixel—the AI is built-in and great. I don't understand the need for separate AI devices. Maybe glasses could work to help our posture, but having a camera on your face is awkward.

Many AI artists/scientists using the term ML (machine learning) instead of AI to avoid pushback.

@GANTASMO | AI Music Interviews artintech.substack.com/p/gantasmo-a... Uniquely address the AI live performance challenge with XR and explore AI music through the uncanny sound.

FYI: computers have been used to create art before.

I'm against BAD (AI) music. I'm against BAD (AI) art.

FREESOUND TO THE RESCUE Celebrating 20 years of Freesound in an essay. artintech.substack.com/p/freesound-...

Why Artists Don’t Use AI 1. Tools 2. Narratives 3. Power asymmetries Apart from these, what else do you think holds artists back? artintech.substack.com/p/why-artist...

The best (and worst) part of being in a band is the instant feedback. Alone, it takes much longer to know if you’re on the right track.

The more I think about it, the more I feel AI’s biggest mark on music will be through interactivity: • Personalized playback experiences • Unique, ephemeral live concerts • Artistic agency through also “composing” the interaction All thanks to the generative abilities of AI.

Never thought I’d be promoting my music in LinkedIn. Weird times.

Meet our AI Song Contest 2025 entry! We submitted an interactive & generative AI music piece. We used AI for: - Sound design - Interactive playback More details about.. - Human-AI co-creation process - Name of the song - Videoclip - Live performance 👉 artintech.substack.com/p/our-ai-son...

We analyzed 337 AI music artworks (2017–2024) to uncover how artists are creating with AI. 📄 Paper (arXiv) 📂 Database (GitHub) 🎥 Video 👉 artintech.substack.com/p/report-art...

Everyone is thinking of using AI to make music. But what if it’s more interesting to use AI at playback time? Music will no longer be distributed as MP3 files. New generative AI formats are emerging that will enable interactive music experiences.

🔥🔥 Beefs in AI Music 🔥🔥 ➡️ Drake's 'Taylor Made Freestyle' w/ Tupac and Snoop Dogg AI voices ➡️ Metro Boomin AI beat 'BBL Drizzy' ➡️ Drake rapping over 'BBL Drizzy' in 'U My Everything' ➡️ Legal beef targeting Suno ➡️ Academic beef between Wiggins and Cope artintech.substack.com/p/beefs-in-a...

Beef has always been part of music culture, and AI music is no different :) artintech.substack.com/p/beefs-in-a...

Most artists already know how to make music—they're not looking for AI to do it for them. 👉 artintech.substack.com/p/ai-music-i...

What’s an artistic medium? It’s the thing artists use to make art. Like canvas for painters. Clay for sculptors. Video for directors. Or recordings for musicians. This post explores how to use generative AI as an artistic medium: artintech.substack.com/p/ai-as-an-a...

I’ve been studying AI and gastronomy—sharing my learnings here: artintech.substack.com/p/ai-makes-d... Delicioso Algoritmo (Delicious Algorithm) by Eneko Axpe gives a nice overview of the field. Know any other books, papers or blogposts? I'm having trouble finding beginner-friendly resources.

Lately, I’ve been learning to mix music. And it feels overwhelming when you are a beginner. Following this checklist helped me. With this list you don’t need to remember everything. Just need to do what’s next. Details and a PDF of the checklist in: artintech.substack.com/p/mixing-mus...

Now thinking that I did not include live coding music, pure data, max MSP, supercollider.. Any good references out there?

This post wraps up my time studying the history of generative music and AI music. ➡️Generative Music OGs artintech.substack.com/p/generative... Previous posts.. ➡️Algorithmic Music OGs artintech.substack.com/p/algorithmi... ➡️History of Neural Networks for Music artintech.substack.com/p/the-forgot...

Today we release Stable Audio Open Small 🫂 Based on adversarial post-training, it does not rely on distillation or CFG Runtime is reduced to milliseconds with GPUs or seconds with CPUs Weights huggingface.co/stabilityai/... Blog stability.ai/news/stabili... Paper arxiv.org/abs/2505.08175

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the pioneers (OGs) of neural networks for music. But many of you rightly pointed out that I missed some key names :) Previous post: artintech.substack.com/p/the-forgot... New post: artintech.substack.com/p/algorithmi...

Today I installed the ChatGPT app for my mum. She used it to make jokes about my dad. I'm not sure she is more productive now.

I’m deep down the rabbit hole of (pre-AI) generative music. This is better than YouTube.

Making AI music without knowing Xenakis' work is like playing jazz without having heard Coltrane. In the language of their time, 'indeterminacy' is akin to what we now call 'generative'—where some aspects of the composition are left to chance (not determined). rohandrape.net/ut/rttcc-tex...

Does listening to audiobooks count as reading?

I'm experiencing a déjà vu with FAD metrics. Five years ago, we were all complaining that SDR metrics were useless for source separation—yet here we are, still using them.

Authors fall into two camps — the acronym abusers and the good writers.

The real story of AI music starts in 1988. On humble VAX-11/780 workstations. Full article here 👉 artintech.substack.com/p/the-forgot...

What is the mindset of an AI artist? Thinking of art more as 'seeds' than 'artifacts' — and AI not as a 'tool', but as a 'mirror'. And also to be aware that the line between audience and author blurs. More ideas in the full article here 👇 artintech.substack.com/p/the-ai-art...

Last year, copyright drama dominated the conversation. This year, let’s focus on AI art. Beyond Copyright Battles—AI Art 👉 artintech.substack.com/p/ai-art-bey...

I listened to all 165 AI Song Contest entries and found 5 trends that are shaping current AI music 🐝 Embrace the uncanny 🐝 Multi-genre AI music 🐝 AI music that reflects your culture 🐝 Lazy artwork 🐝 Not much Chinese and African AI music 👉https://artintech.substack.com/p/my-top-5-ai-music-picks

Stable Audio API is now up! platform.stability.ai/docs/api-ref...

Generative music from the 18th century! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK2M...

What are your favorite AI videos?

Stable Audio Open now runs on your phone! CPUs go brrrrrrr

If this whole AI thing goes wrong, it’s not our generation’s fault. It’s the fault of the previous generation for writing the wrong books and making the wrong movies.

Researchers are trained to doubt, and this is not good for selling.

What do you call fully AI-generated music? Made by one-click generative models? For Duchamp were "readymades". The CTO of Kits.AI calls them "slops". Their genre being "slopcore", made by "slop jockeys". kd-blog.notion.site/the-future-o...

I listened to all AI Song Contest entries, and identified 5 trends in music AI. 1. Embrace the uncanny. 2. Multi-genre AI music. 3. AI music that reflects your culture. 4. Lazy artwork. 5. More (!!!) Chinese and African AI music.