AI Has Been Creating Music and the Results Are...Weird

Daren Banarsë agrees on the benefits of collaboration. "I always find it daunting when I have to start a large-scale composition. Maybe I could give the computer a few parameters: the number of players, the mood, even the names of some of my favorite composers, and it could generate a basic structure for me," he says. "I wouldn't expect it to work out of the box, but it would be a starting point. Or it could output a selection of melodic ideas or chord progressions for me to look through. And somewhere in there, there's going to be a computer glitch or random quirk, which could take me in a completely unexpected direction."