How One Student Used AI to Transform Her Music

Have you ever thought of how AI and music can collaborate? Although purely AI-generated music can be controversial, a newly developed app called Suno (in collaboration with mainstream labels such as Sony) can help visualise what an arranged and engineered piece of music can sound like.

 

I was always interested in writing pop music, so I benefited a lot from this software during summer. By utilising it to transform melodies I wrote previously, these demos became polished versions with tracks of different instruments. I never knew how precise tracks had to be. Half a beat too early or too late could mean that the work was flawed. The remixes are at the professional-sounding level where it can be published straight away on platforms such as Spotify and YouTube. Furthermore, the AI can take recordings of your voice and apply it onto the tracks – meaning that even if one is not a confident singer, it is equally possible to hear their voice in a song! 

 

I think with the growing development with AI it is important to be aware of originality (and therefore even though the app allows prompt (word) based requests it would show more creativity if a personal melody was submitted). However, through collaborations with the software during it was possible to see a dimensional version of my work.