A friend of mine who deals with electronic music had a saying: “One day, everyone will make their own music.” This sentence, which refers to Andy Warhol’s famous quote “One day everyone will be famous for 15 minutes”, made me think for a long time. Technological tools developing day by day began to fulfill not only Warhol’s prophecy, but also my musician friend’s, and he even gave it a name: “Custom music”.
Most of us probably heard an artificial intelligence composition by chance in a video we came across on the internet or in the middle of a movie, and it did not attract our attention. But my conscious encounter with this happened by chance when I downloaded and used an application called Mubert on my phone. These days, the internet offers us more options than we would like, and this pushes us to be much more insatiable consumers than we were in the previous year, let alone previous generations. For me, Mubert was like this: I started listening by saying, “Everything is over, there is only one artificial intelligence left.”
This experience not only pushed me to look at artificial intelligence music differently, but also raised a question in my mind: “Can artificial intelligence offer everyone who loves music, whether they are musicians or not, the opportunity to make their own music?”
I knew that there were some programs used by those involved in electronic music and that unlimited things could be done with them, and that those who purchased and learned to use these programs could create their own original works. But since this is something that requires money, time and effort, and of course, since I am a person who loves comfort, I knew that I would not bother with this, so I searched the internet for “online music composer” and “listen to AI music” and came across countless options.
While I was examining these online sites and artificial intelligence music platforms and researching how they work, I realized that our perspective on music is also rapidly transforming.
Moreover, it offers this in a way that even those who have no musical knowledge can easily do it. For example, after you become a member of Ecrett Music, which I tried, you can adjust your liking with various settings on the free templates and download the music you created to your device.
Even though what I have said seems to paint a pessimistic picture and I have encountered countless comments such as “As a composer, this situation worries me very much”, I confess that all of these innovations have aroused great excitement in me and that I think they will provide us with much more diverse musical experiences. Most of us have rewinded and listened to some parts of the composition over and over again and skipped some parts in a song we listened to with great pleasure. Because most of us have listened to the works pouring out of someone else’s mind and taste, and once they emerged, they could no longer be touched. Our part was to find the artists and music closest to our taste and to adapt ourselves to what we listened to. Up to the present.
As someone who does not believe that any branch of art can disappear or become worthless, I liken this situation to the transformation in our perspective on painting and visual arts after the invention of the camera. Contrary to fear, the camera did not kill painting; on the contrary, it opened the horizons of painters by forcing them to look at different perspectives and create new things. On the other hand, it enabled the birth of new branches of art, both in the visual arts and in other fields, and became a tool for the talents of thousands of people to emerge. Who knows, maybe this artificial intelligence software are the cameras of music.
