Journey to Arcturus (an AI generated composition from prompts created by Robert Svilpa)

Robert Svilpa
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Published 2024-06-17
A quick visit to Udio.com and playing with prompts generated several music stems - I stitched the stems together into something interesting, added some processing to normalize the audio and some spatial effects to smoothen gaps.

My take on AI generated music:
There are still plenty of artifacts that can be heard - the drums on the death metal section have zero definition particularly the blast beat sections. Vocals sound in places like they hit notes that are impossible for humans to hit - harmony and doubled vocals in particular.

The intro and outro areas - instrumental sections that transition between the sections - are very interesting. One sounds like it could have been lifted from Bridgerton, others definitely reflact modern prog metal like Dream Theater, and still one more has a Gentle Giant vibe.

I dont know anyone who would write music like this - no one I've heard before does quite this thing, lyrics are somewhat lame (AI lyrics often are), and if I were to do this piece seriously I would actually try to transcribe sections and play them live to disc - pull out the vocals and port over to the new recordings since oddly enough they fit the pieces.
All Comments (3)
  • @ceetarya
    you are right it really sounds a bit strange but not so bad I know bands that are sounding worse :) greetz from Germania, Iain the Hawk :) Conclusion the death metal part sounds really strange...
  • @RobertSvilpaMusic
    additional thoughts on relistening with fresh ears today: - there are really cool sections even with the lame lyrics, but they're too short. Real human composer would have extended some of the sections and put more lyrical content in to really make them have impact in the overall composition. And it's consistent throughout each of the two root stems I used as source material for this - you can extend the pieces in 30 second increments, and in some cases with this genre in particular the extensions (intro/extro) are really divergent from the piece they're tacked onto. Great starting points for a real human songwriter/composer though - I still cant not hear the artifacts and strange sounding vocals and instrumentation. Definitely throws this into the AI bucket right away