I love Keiki Kobayashi’s music and the Ace Combat OSTs. There’s a joke that when you choose a two-seat fighter, Kobayashi himself is sitting in the back seat playing the BGM while you fly 😂
Then AC7 introduced a boss whose backseater is literally an AI. With that joke in mind, it adds a symbolic duel between human and AI.
Interesting take. But the main point is elsewhere. The machine should always be the instrument, never the composer. That is for the simple fact that, while AI can understand music and its canons and can replicate a statistical average version of it, machines have no purpose and are not willing to break the rules unless they are told to. To mix synthesized metal with Baroque classical music would be wrong for the tradition of each of these styles, but in Keygen Church they are merged together to create something new. The machine doesn't need to break rules or to do something different, because it has no self-consciousness or will. It doesn't have the experience, the struggle, the despair, the joy of a human being, which are what push an artist to compose in a certain way, to use one sound instead of another, one reverb or effect instead of another, one mix or EQ, one note instead of another, and so on. The machine can replicate everything but can't take any decision on its own. I think the real future of AI applied to music is instead to create increasingly advanced and customized tools, aka instruments, controlled by the creator in order to render music, which is different from generating. Generating means no control. Rendering, on the other hand (live or as a file), is the opposite, because it is a tool specifically designed to do what the creator wants. Praise The Code
I love Keiki Kobayashi’s music and the Ace Combat OSTs. There’s a joke that when you choose a two-seat fighter, Kobayashi himself is sitting in the back seat playing the BGM while you fly 😂
Then AC7 introduced a boss whose backseater is literally an AI. With that joke in mind, it adds a symbolic duel between human and AI.
In hindsight the plot of AC7 was shockingly prescient
I wonder which country is building an Arsenal Bird or Falken 😆
> “We have Arsenal Bird at home”
> C-17 full of LUCAS drones
Interesting take. But the main point is elsewhere. The machine should always be the instrument, never the composer. That is for the simple fact that, while AI can understand music and its canons and can replicate a statistical average version of it, machines have no purpose and are not willing to break the rules unless they are told to. To mix synthesized metal with Baroque classical music would be wrong for the tradition of each of these styles, but in Keygen Church they are merged together to create something new. The machine doesn't need to break rules or to do something different, because it has no self-consciousness or will. It doesn't have the experience, the struggle, the despair, the joy of a human being, which are what push an artist to compose in a certain way, to use one sound instead of another, one reverb or effect instead of another, one mix or EQ, one note instead of another, and so on. The machine can replicate everything but can't take any decision on its own. I think the real future of AI applied to music is instead to create increasingly advanced and customized tools, aka instruments, controlled by the creator in order to render music, which is different from generating. Generating means no control. Rendering, on the other hand (live or as a file), is the opposite, because it is a tool specifically designed to do what the creator wants. Praise The Code