“I’m in the library where it turns up.” This is the first verse of the first piece of classical music composed by a generative AI, highlighted by technology pioneer and Vice President of Audio for Stability AI Ed Newton-Rex.
This musician and entrepreneur declared the work’s innovation as a revolution, since he wrote his “I Stand in the Library”, a piece for choir and piano, with a poem produced by OpenAI’s GPT3 generative AI model, just a few months ago and with a total duration of 15 minutes. .
The work has already premiered at the online classical music festival Live from London, performed by the choral group VOCES8, and which was created with a simple directive to ChatGPT3: “Next, a poem about music and loneliness”, as it is possible to descend to the posterity they came out in the first place.
“Actually, it’s just that I didn’t do much. I’d decide where it ends, I’d get to the end of Pete and think, ‘Okay, that’s a good ending.’
“Artificial intelligence can pull us out of creative loops and give us new ideas.”
Newton-Rex believes that AI can help humans be more creative: “I enjoyed the process so much that I ended up writing a bunch more pieces for choir and piano, and now it’s one of my favorite styles. And that’s interesting, because if I don’t use GPT3 on that very day, my writing style will be very different now.”
In this sense, the composer insists on the power of tools like ChatGPT to overcome mental barriers: “Artificial intelligence can get us out of creative loops, or it can simply give us new ideas. It’s like being in a studio composing with someone.”
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