It looks bad for career artists. Maybe it's an important step in terms of human expression and communication though, that visual and musical art won't require years of skill to convey your ideas or emotions effectively.
I don't have much of a solarpunk outlook on this, I don't think it's going to be that beneficial. It'd be nice to be wrong though.
I don't know. I've put out an album largely driven by modular synth, meaning that I've got many percussion elements driven literally by a machine, defeating the need for me as a human to play drums in perfect time (which I'm not good at)
But in doing that, I've spent years learning how the micro-timing of musical grooves work (some of it's very obvious, like how a heavy snare backbeat will lag slightly behind what the perfect time is, almost to the point of being a 'flam')
As a result, I was able to make an album that conveyed certain kinds of groove not immediately accessible to novice musicians (or drummers)… but given the same information, any schmoe could push a button and have a preset in his DAW produce the same effect.
I think to some extent if the person doesn't really understand the purpose or need for such an effect, their grasp of how to implement and craft it will be pretty loose. If you don't know why you're doing the effortless thing you're not going to guide it very well and your results will be kind of generic.
Rather than thinking of years of skill, maybe call it years of focus, or years of purpose? To some extent, we collectively respond to creations with a profound sense of purpose. If that purpose comes out of AI it will have to be something from the AI, and not simply a blind reflection of us and our crudest drives.
That's actually my point, without the requirement of years skill building, what's left for us to do? Also, imo, what makes art so human is also failure, it's part of the game. e.g. a successful musician releasing a bad record, or a not more relevant musician that after years of experimentation reinvent himself and publish a great record. I don't have a clear outlook on this too, only questions about the future
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It looks bad for career artists. Maybe it's an important step in terms of human expression and communication though, that visual and musical art won't require years of skill to convey your ideas or emotions effectively.
I don't have much of a solarpunk outlook on this, I don't think it's going to be that beneficial. It'd be nice to be wrong though.
I don't know. I've put out an album largely driven by modular synth, meaning that I've got many percussion elements driven literally by a machine, defeating the need for me as a human to play drums in perfect time (which I'm not good at)
But in doing that, I've spent years learning how the micro-timing of musical grooves work (some of it's very obvious, like how a heavy snare backbeat will lag slightly behind what the perfect time is, almost to the point of being a 'flam')
As a result, I was able to make an album that conveyed certain kinds of groove not immediately accessible to novice musicians (or drummers)… but given the same information, any schmoe could push a button and have a preset in his DAW produce the same effect.
I think to some extent if the person doesn't really understand the purpose or need for such an effect, their grasp of how to implement and craft it will be pretty loose. If you don't know why you're doing the effortless thing you're not going to guide it very well and your results will be kind of generic.
Rather than thinking of years of skill, maybe call it years of focus, or years of purpose? To some extent, we collectively respond to creations with a profound sense of purpose. If that purpose comes out of AI it will have to be something from the AI, and not simply a blind reflection of us and our crudest drives.
That's actually my point, without the requirement of years skill building, what's left for us to do? Also, imo, what makes art so human is also failure, it's part of the game. e.g. a successful musician releasing a bad record, or a not more relevant musician that after years of experimentation reinvent himself and publish a great record. I don't have a clear outlook on this too, only questions about the future