Can music generated by the really excite us?
In the world of music, the author’s identity has always been fundamental. Behind every song that made us cry, dance or hear less alone, there was a voice, a face, a story. Dylan and his protests, Billie Eilish and his generational fragility, Vasco and his burned loves: the song became collective experience because before it had been personal experience. But in an era in which artificial intelligence can generate musical songs in a few minutes – and often of surprising quality – what happens to that emotional bond between artist and listener?
The cult of the author in crisis?
The music revolution is already underway. Tools such as Suno, Udio and Musicgen allow anyone, even without technical skills, to generate music based on a simple text prompt. A bit like asking a trusted bartender: “Let me play something that sounds a little indie-pop with a nostalgic 90s touch, but electronic”. And he needs the cocktail in a few seconds. But if the music is good – or at least pleasant – even without a human author, what changes for those who listen? After all, music is not just sound. AND projection, empathy, shared biography. The artists become myths, mirrors, symbols. Songs like “Nothing buy 2 u “ They would not be the same if there was no story of Sinéad O’Connor (in the photo above) behind. So can, can a song created by an algorithm, heartless and without scars, excite us in the same way?
Purple Atlas: the human and the algorithm that write together
Fortunately, AI is not just a threat to artistic identity. There are projects that use it in a way hybrid, aware and creativeand which open new possibilities instead of closing them. This is the case of Purple Atlas, Music group that has recently published on Spotify “Writing Love Instead “a song born from an unprecedented collaboration: texts written by them, music generated with AI. The result is surprising. Not only because the piece works – has a dreamy, well -kept, coherent sound – but above all because it succeeds in tell something authentic while using unconventional tools. In this case, the AI does not cancel the author, but becomes a creative prosthesisa wider palette for those with something to say. NOn I am alone in this path. Other artists are also experiencing artificial intelligence as creative allies. For example we can mention Holly HerndonAmerican electronic musician, created Spawna neural network trained with its voice, used to generate “non -human” but profoundly emotional vocal harmonies. His album Proto It is a pioneering example of collaboration between AI and human body. Or again Arkproducer Venezuelana and collaborator of Björk, has repeatedly used algorithmic tools to destructure and reconstruct the song form. In some songs, AI is used to generate rhythmic or unpredictable transitions, at the limit of the glitch, but always personal. The German collective Dadabots He then created models that generate Death Metal, Jazz or Ambient in continuous streamingas if the Ai had its own musical consciousness. A conceptual project, but with strong artistic implications: what does it mean to “compose” when there is no more pause? Also emerging artists, such as French Skyggeembraced the paradigm AI. His album “Hello World “made with the support of the Flow Machines Team, contains songs composed in collaboration with algorithms, but sung and lived by human beings.
New myths, new ties?
Perhaps this is precisely the most interesting future: not the elimination of the author, but his metamorphosis. Ai could create new forms of artistic identity: musical avatars, hybrid collectives, narrative projects where the artist’s history is built, but shared, experienced together with the public. Let’s think about fans: what they often seek is not the absolute truth about the artist, but an image to identify with. If tomorrow a character generated entirely by Ai will be born, but with a coherent, exciting, fragile story, could he really touch deep strings? Maybe yes – if those who create it (human or not) know where to put their hands, and where to make them tremble.
Authenticity as a sensation, not a certificate
In an era where real artists often work with ghostwriter, beat purchased online and viral marketing strategies, Authenticity has long been built for some time. But this does not make it less real for those who listen. The emotion, after all, does not ask for a birth certificate, but a shock. AI can generate music. But It is up to us to give her a soul. As the Purple Atlas do, mixing human voice and artificial intelligence in a new dialogue, where it doesn’t matter much who has done whatbut if in the end something came to us. And he stayed in it.
