The Illiac Suite - Music and AI

The Illiac Suite: A Podcast on AI-Driven Music:

Join me as we dive into the ever-evolving world of AI-generated music, where algorithms become the composers and machines become the virtuosos. Yes, this music and text was written by a computer and I am not real, but

I am and my name is Dennis Kastrup.

- Hello human listeners, welcome to the Illiac Suite, named after the first song ever composed by a computer in 1957
- Let me introduce you:
- I am a journalist from Berlin
- I work for public radio in Germany and Canada
- In the last 25 years my focus was on music in general, interviewing musicians and bands from all over the world
- I got hooked on music and new technologies like robots, wearables, prosthetics, VR/AR, drones and artificial intelligence, especially in 2016
- To see emerging new ways of making music and interacting with music was and is fascinating for me
- Since then, it was an amazing ride on waves of resistance, development, excitement and discussion
- Especially in the field of artificial intelligence
- From the moment AI got into my focus, I had to explain audiences on radio in the beginning a lot: What exactly is an AI? What does it do? How does it work? And I also had to calm them down: No, it will not replace musicians, it is a tool
- The magic word “tool” was always part of any interview I did with artists who experimented with artificial intelligence
- tools like synthesizer, drum machines, vocoder or sampler, they all were in the end an add on to the great variety of music that is out there
- AI will play the same role
- Yes, it will shake the industry and some music makers will have problems to get paid, I am aware of that
- But the creativity in AI music will have a lot of amazing songs for us on the plate
- I am sure that music will surprise us ….again
- As Kraftwerk said it in their song “Techno Pop”: It will go on and on / Music as a carrier of ideas
- I want to celebrate that with the Illiac Suite here with you
- I will only play songs that have been written by an AI, or an AI took a major role in producing a song
- I will present you also interviews I have already done and more interviews that I will do in the future
- Just like a normal radio show, but with AI music in the focus
- Disclaimer: There is a risk that in the first episodes, weeks or even months the music is still not that good, we are at the beginning
- I am aware of that
- But with time we will get there, AI music will dominate the charts, I am 100% sure
- And I will talk to you soon in the first episode of the Illiac Suite with the makers of “OperAI”, the first label that signs only AI musicians
- So: I hope I got you hooked on
- Follow this podcast to be updated, when the first episode will be out
- My name is Dennis Kastrup, and I am human