I had a discussion today with a music teacher and we got talking about performing musical instruments (not counting sequencing - drum machines, etc) will not ever be something that AI will be able to do. BUT, as a practice tool, I think that we're not far from an app that could accompany a performing musician in a way that is not currently available. Imagine an app that you could ask to accompany you as a certain set of players that would be sensitive to what and how you play. A saxophone player could potentially sit in with the Ray Brown trio and "those musicians" would respond to what and how they play.
That would be interesting! Kind of a real-time audio transformer! But you are right, it would only be able to mimic the sounds, not actually play any instruments!
Replies
I had a discussion today with a music teacher and we got talking about performing musical instruments (not counting sequencing - drum machines, etc) will not ever be something that AI will be able to do. BUT, as a practice tool, I think that we're not far from an app that could accompany a performing musician in a way that is not currently available. Imagine an app that you could ask to accompany you as a certain set of players that would be sensitive to what and how you play. A saxophone player could potentially sit in with the Ray Brown trio and "those musicians" would respond to what and how they play.
That would be interesting! Kind of a real-time audio transformer! But you are right, it would only be able to mimic the sounds, not actually play any instruments!