AI-generated blues misses a human touch — and a metronome
by Wes Davis from The Verge - All Posts on (#6KJGT)
Suno will happily sing you a tune. | Image: The Verge / Shutterstock I heard a new song last weekend called Soul Of The Machine." It's a simple, old-timey number in E minor with a standard blues chord progression (musicians in the know would call it a 1-4-5 progression). In it, a voice sings about being a trapped soul with a heart that once beat but is now cold and weak.
Soul Of The Machine" is not a real song at all. Or is it? It's getting harder to say. Whatever it is, it's the creation of Suno, an AI tool from a startup of the same name focused on music generation. Rolling Stone said this song's prompt was solo acoustic Mississippi Delta blues about a sad AI." And you know what? I doubt I'd glance askance at it if I heard it in a mix of human-recorded Delta blues tunes. The track is technically...