There is a Thing called Impossible Music and Artificial Intelligence Can Make it

Impossible Music, the phrase itself sounds like a misnomer. Only a trained ear or experienced music composer understands what it would possibly sound like and the word impossible applies to the process of creation. Technology-aided tools, however, are bringing this genre of music out from its shade. To date, AI-created songs haven't been that good to listen to when compared to songs created by real-life musicians. For example, "Daddy's Car,", a 2016 AI-penned song meant to mimic the Beatles turned out to be a chaotic combination of psychedelic rock tropes, that do not fall in place together, to make it a meaningful composition.

Claire Evans of Los-Angeles based electropop band YACHT has a different view. She believes algorithms are like Dr.Luke, a yesteryear music producer who would create pop hits using specific formulas. The band's 2019 album 'Chain Tripping', an AI-generated number is the case in point. She says the job of progressive musicians is only to ensure the opposite, ie., work against the siloed ways of making music, exploring ways they wouldn't have all by themselves. Chain Tripping is a pop number that pulsates with glitchy synth sounds, deep and intoxicating bass riffs, and the melodious vocals of the lead singer Claire.

For this YATCH number AI algorithm put together pieces together so well that it is difficult to tell the difference from the human-created song. To make the AI song the club converted their entire music catalog into MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) data and fed it to the machine learning models, piece by piece and maneuver with the output to compose the coherent song out of those intriguing bits.