popular opinion : Anyone paying the slightest moment of attention to the news from the last year would have noticed the whirl surrounding AI . From culture medium to finance , eastward - commerce and smart homes , contrived intelligence is having a disruptive encroachment on many industries .
Another industry that AI has its sights school on is euphony . One of the business circumvent artificial intelligence has always been that this ‘ invisible ’ force is here to take jobs from actual people , but that ’s not what DAACI ( label Dar - cee ) is about .
DAACI ( which digest for Definable Aleatoric Artificial Composition Intelligence ) looks not to supercede the man at the inwardness of the appendage but to drive efficiency , assistance and augment the creative cognitive operation .
I mistake to being rather questioning of AI . It tends to deduct rather than add – a causa of fellowship peddling a technology that cut costs in favor of automation . Anyone who has used the ‘ helpful ’ assistant for online banking will know that answers can be vague or just go round in circles .
A round-eyed – at least on the surface it expect wide-eyed – 20 - hour presentation of DAACI show that stilted intelligence can baby-sit alongside humans who are drive the process of music creation . DAACI is simply there to assist .
I ’m getting a bit forwards of myself as I have n’t explicate what DAACI is . DAACI is – at least for the moment – a medicine composition organization , a creative tool as such that allows for “ constituent and textures to be dynamically compose in genuine - meter ” . Composers can choose the instruments they want ( perhaps a kick drum there , a tinkling forte-piano here ) and instruct for how many bars they want those tone to last for , and then allow DAACI to take that info and make the resulting composition .
That composition can be tweaked , root out , whatever , and as beginner and discoverer Dr. Joe Lyske showed in a existent - meter demonstration , DAACI can show the results within seconds .
The feedback loop it offers is quick , which will avail things get done in a more efficient mode . And consider the event was hold at Abbey Road , there was a further monstrance to show how it could reduce the metre call for to ‘ find ’ medicine in the studio .
Another Dr was on mitt in Damon Minchella ( who elderly folk may remember as being part of the band Ocean Colour Scene ) . He was there to show how the originative cognitive process could be speed up for musicians , using a song written and do by a untried artist from The Brit School called Lydia . She sung a sampling of her song , Minchella asked her how she would envisage it as a record ; they picked out three chord that allowed DAACI to make a production environment whereby they had a selection of musical pick to refine the rhythm , style , and flow of the track .
The flexibleness DAACI allow for was impressive , changing speed from up - tempo to downtempo , changing the beats , etc ; and within twenty transactions , they find oneself a something they liked . grant to Minchella , that process in a studio would probably have take on two days .
Of of course , DAACI would extol the benefits of this physical process , and while they are advantages of empowering artists , especially young ones , in making music and perhaps even being more inclusive for those who do n’t have the knack for the more technical look of production , I marvel whether it can convert music for the well .
Having attend another music event a few days later , it could n’t have been more different from the show of artificial intelligence at Abbey Road . Listening to the first album by Speakers Corner Quartet at Portico Studios , this was a band that had been together ( in some pattern or form ) for over 15 - years , jamming and building a closeness that , perhaps , you might not get from convey unreal intelligence agency into the equality .
This was analog to DACCI ’s digital , a process that adopt years not twenty minutes . So , for all the good AI can offer , it progress to me ponder whether its adaptation into creative process is simply an economical one : the bang to hit deadline and repress costs by getting stuff and nonsense done quicker .
There is more to DAACI than just that , but there ’s something to be said about the taste of a rich stew that takes a while to make , rather than slurp on instant pot noodles , not to mention whether artificial intelligence is fixing a system or ignore aspects that appear a bit break by its own design .
That ’s not to say that DAACI could n’t top music creation into a bright new future . follow the 0s and unity in the flesh was exiting , but the old ways excite just as much . It ’s a intrepid Modern world , but perhaps we could still keep bit of the old one .
