Special Edition: Is AI the Death Blow for Creative Music?

In this Special Edition episode, Lindsay and Alan tackle the massive disruption of Artificial Intelligence in music. They break down the controversy surrounding the first AI-generated Billboard charting artist, the fierce pushback from working musicians, and the surreal "uncanny valley" of algorithmic audio. Shifting to the jazz ecosystem, they analyze new tech like Neural Audio Synthesis and Stefon Harris’s Harmony Cloud, before subjecting themselves to some truly horrific Suno AI generations attempting to mimic modern jazz artists.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro: Going in blind on AI

01:13 - Meet Xania Monet: The first AI artist on the Billboard R&B charts

05:11 - Alan reacts to the cookie-cutter AI pop track in real-time

09:45 - The Gayle King interview and the ethics of "putting in the work"

16:18 - Kehlani’s backlash: AI stealing the spotlight from real musicians

24:00 - The "Uncanny Valley" effect of perfectly tuned AI audio

25:26 - Transitioning to the reality of AI in the Jazz ecosystem

27:22 - Neural Audio Synthesis and improvising live with AI models

31:40 - Stefon Harris’s Harmony Cloud ear-training app

36:39 - Suno AI Experiments: Prompting an Eric Dolphy jazz standard

43:24 - Forcing AI to simulate Tyshawn Sorey drumming for Steve Lehman

46:30 - Why jazz audiences won't tolerate fake, algorithm-generated music

49:09 - The Gen-Z analog revival and getting away from technology

50:09 - Birch Grove Media's official anti-AI label stance

51:04 - Outro: Podfuel and supporting human-made music

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