In my last post I mentioned that I heard AI music in the past. I’ve tried a service to generate this music a couple of times, but I’ve never really liked what it produced. It all sounds vapid. It’s got the surface criteria of a music: it’s chromatically correct, there what appears to be build up of tension. Yet, it all sounds like fluff to my ears.

My theory is that good music needs to have repetative elements, but enough variation to avoid it sounding boring. It could be variations to one or more theme; could be lyrics (chorus as verses); could also be the orchestration, where instructions come and go. AI music has none of this: none of the music has a central theme one can use as a hook, nor is there any variation to the instrumentation. I’ve only tried generating instrumentation songs so maybe music with lyrics sound better. But nah, not for me.