AI is another nail in the coffin of compositional creativity. The knowledge I've taken a lifetime to acquire - how to modulate to a remote key, how to use mixed meters, apply varied styles of accompaniment, etc. etc.... - is duplicated and surpassed in milliseconds by a computer processor.

I’m aware that my negative, “nail in the coffin”, comment might make me sound like a Luddite, and I appreciate how others (in particular John Isley) have opened my eyes to the possibilities of AI for processing beyond, or in addition to, music generation. Technology has always influenced composition — Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes would not have been created on a fortepiano, let alone a harpsichord. And I don’t imagine Bach turning over in his grave when Wendy Carlos used a Moog, though I’m sure he would have preferred the natural acoustics of strings to the oscillations of electronic circuits. And I must confess to a guilty pleasure when listening to obviously-AI-generated “Istanbul Jazz”/“Turkish Jazz” YouTube videos. But that music has no human author. I guess it comes down to WHY we compose music. If I were a working composer with clients and deadlines, I have no doubt that I would make use of AI just to get through the day. Personally, when and IF I record my own compositions, I want to put them “out there” as works of art, like a Rembrandt oil or a Picasso print. Granted, that’s not likely to happen anytime soon, as I’m seventy-five! ;-)

Beautiful. I especially love the surprising modulation at bar 82.