I am interested in discovering what makes music a uniquely human expression. I think it would be relatively easy to use AI to create a pop song. Pop songs tend to have a current rhythm, a current set of chord changes and melodies… that’s why they are pop songs. Five or six guys in Sweden have written most of the huge pop songs in recent times, whether they are sung by Rihanna or Bieber. Every once in a while a song may come out of left field but in general pop music is fairly homogenous. So that’s a perfect playing field for AI.

What kind of music would be difficult for AI to create? I imagine anything to do with improvisation and momentary creation. Too many variables, too much to react to. So, I would like to create music that goes in a direction that is more personal, more of the moment. A melody that has a flavor one can taste. A melody that has a note that is unexpected. A note that can be felt.

I shall endeavor to follow random thoughts and ideas, because computers can’t do random.

I do believe that ideas and intelligence are distributed and exist outside our skulls and outside of humans. More than thirty years ago I wrote My soul is my antenna, I am the instrument + the guitar is my amplifier. Today I would choose different words, but the meaning would remain the same. This body is my antenna, I am the instrument, and the guitar is my amplifier. I will aim to deeply listen to the antenna. I will aim to improve the instrument and its conduct from the antenna to the guitar. Try to keep up, AI.