HearMe - Album
The album is the product of my complicated relationship with AI over the last 30 years. As an AI-pilled enthusiast turned a worried declerationist, I created the album while interacting with the app HearMe - www.hearme.music. The app was designed to integrate AI into meaningful human-centered music making, encouraging playing musical instruments, singing, writing lyrics, and maximizing the cognitive, physical, and social benefits of human made music.
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Why HearMe
The album carries the same name as an application we developed at Georgia Tech where the AI meaningfully hears humans as part of a collaborative song-making process. It is also a reference to a proposal I wrote to fund the project titled “Human Ethics for Advancing Robotic Musical Intelligence” (HEAR MI). More generally, it reflects our human need to be heard in a world that seems to move towards AI-driven automation.
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What's the genre / mood
The album is a mix of Alternative Rock and Electronic. The mood is quite somber but with an unwavering thread of hope. The music is inspired by my long-time involvement in music technology and AI. At the beginning of my career, and up until recently, I was very hopeful for the positive effect that Robotic Musicianship and AI could have on my, and others’, musical experiences. I was excited about the potential for the inspiration humans can draw from interacting with musical algorithms and humanly impossible mechanical abilities. At the beginning results were promising, but in the last few years, I started questioning my efforts, as I witnessed how AI has been used to hinder rather than enrich human expression and creativity. Today, I’m a “decelerationist”, arguing that we need to take a break to rethink if and how to continue this work. The mood of the album represents these anxieties, but I believe that my initial optimism and hope still come through.
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What's the genre / mood
The album is a mix of Alternative Rock and Electronic. The mood is quite somber but with an unwavering thread of hope. The music is inspired by my long-time involvement in music technology and AI. At the beginning of my career, and up until recently, I was very hopeful for the positive effect that Robotic Musicianship and AI could have on my, and others’, musical experiences. I was excited about the potential for the inspiration humans can draw from interacting with musical algorithms and humanly impossible mechanical abilities. At the beginning results were promising, but in the last few years, I started questioning my efforts, as I witnessed how AI has been used to hinder rather than enrich human expression and creativity. Today, I’m a “decelerationist”, arguing that we need to take a break to rethink if and how to continue this work. The mood of the album represents these anxieties, but I believe that my initial optimism and hope still come through.
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What's the genre / mood
The album is a mix of Alternative Rock and Electronic. The mood is quite somber but with an unwavering thread of hope. The music is inspired by my long-time involvement in music technology and AI. At the beginning of my career, and up until recently, I was very hopeful for the positive effect that Robotic Musicianship and AI could have on my, and others’, musical experiences. I was excited about the potential for the inspiration humans can draw from interacting with musical algorithms and humanly impossible mechanical abilities. At the beginning results were promising, but in the last few years, I started questioning my efforts, as I witnessed how AI has been used to hinder rather than enrich human expression and creativity. Today, I’m a “decelerationist”, arguing that we need to take a break to rethink if and how to continue this work. The mood of the album represents these anxieties, but I believe that my initial optimism and hope still come through.