[florilegiumson]

The author is right that there is nothing new about making music with AI. However, earlier uses of AI were for symbol manipulation, whereas currently AI has the potential to be a new kind of sound synthesis method. I’ve heard demos where sounds come from these interstitial regions of latent space and so it sounds like I’m listening to two things at once. I wonder if quantum computers will have the ability to do something similarly freaky.

It’s really cool to use quantum computers to compose music, but I’d love to see them used for things other than control of “frequency modulation (FM), additive synthesis, and granular synthesis.”