Melodious Ocarina

If you’re someone who hangs around music discourse on the internet then you would have seen the debates, videos, threads, forums, articles and even songs about AI generated music. From instruments to artists, as AI comes for everything else it’s also coming for music creation and bringing up equal amounts of love and a lot of hate.
(we have zero stats to back the ‘equal amounts of love and hate’ statement up and we’re not going to go looking for love or hate on the internet, so let’s just roll with it.)

Like the old argument of is a DJ a musician? or is sampling copying or creativity?, the same debates popping up with Ai and music.
Is it destroying the soul of creativity or is it offering something more through accessibility?

Or both?

We asked ourselves all these questions as we played on the new Google AI instrument playground ‘game’ - we came to no conclusion but we did want to share because it’s kind of fun and a prompt to create, which is never a bad thing.

The ability to play something like Melodious Ocarina (what?) is dipping your foot into a very interesting world of creativity via AI and it’s up to you to enjoy swimming or suffering the anxiety of feeling like you’re about to drown.

Start playing

And if it’s a bit too gamefied for you then may we recommend Koala to you if you want to dietch AI in favor of a return to the struggle of creating on your own.