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 Artificial intelligence is the final frontier

Stephen Hawking

We are going headlong into a relentless music overproduction, because you, yes, are a potential composer. I translate the verse: you can do whatever you want in music without knowing a single thing about almost anything, you just have to know how to click where you should. Use Suno, yes, as if this were a commercial: use Suno and beat everyone around you.

A few hours ago, the AI sent me an email. It congratulates me because I made a hundred songs; I didn't even realize I had co-written so many. Because this tool, as far as I've been able to feel, is one of the best, it gives you credits that you spend in a day, but when you wake up, the AI gives you back those credits and, like the dinosaur, it's still in the garden.

Suno, based in Cambridge, was created by former members of Meta and TikTok. With it, artificial intelligence bursts into the world of music, but not as an algorithm to propose playlistsbut to make new songs.

The AI with its Create button gives you the possibility to make your theme, if you have text you place it in a box that puts it in front of your eyes; if not, it does it and that's it, you only have to choose if you want a son or a bolero, but it doesn't stop there.

If you don't like the way bolero sounds, you can do it in acoustic Chicago blues, afro-jazz mode, ambient houseArabic reggae, Arabic reggae, electro-jungle, Hindi southern rock, Portuguese breakbeat, Korean pacific reggae, surf flamenco or a bluegrass instrumental; otherwise you could make it a Cajun griot, Celtic choral, Afro-Cuban jazz, hypnagogic pacific or a koto gnawa.

Hundreds of genres or intergenres that appear and give the, let's say, co-author, the possibility of creating versions and versions and, if that's not enough, you can download it as an mp3 or make a sort of video where you place the text as a karaoke.

I have already told several musicians not to be afraid of it; if I were singing I would already be involved in it, doing repertoire. To run away from that truth is like refusing the printing press, the internet or the autotune. There have always been denying heads, but those disruptive pieces end up imposing themselves, as T-Pain or Cher know.

With Suno I have written traps, boleros, sones, blues or bachatas that I used to send to Spain, and from Spain they went to Mexico, so that my friends not only enriched themselves, but also recorded instruments and put vocals. They, for their part, have Chat GPT so they don't write to me asking for four verses.

The world has turned again and Suno is a tool that shows the way. AI allows you to increase the ability to multiply ideas; if you write songs don't hesitate, you can put your verses and make your music; the other is up to you. The machine is just another tool, like the guitar or the computer.

You will not be a cyborgYou've been one since you've been wearing glasses, clothes or a hat. Technology has us. The future has been here for a long time!

P.S: (To the apocalyptics): I thought it was awful at first too. I just ask you, if you write songs, to give it a try. Then you'll tell me.

Rogelio Ramos Domínguez Writer of verses and songs. Full-time journalist and especially father of Claudia Ramos. More posts

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  1. Rafael Carballosa says:

    Es otra faceta de la inteligencia artificial, es una poderosa herramienta en manos de creadores musicales que deben aprender a usar, ya que en segundos puedes probar como se oiría tu canción con diferentes géneros musicales, lo cual te costaría mucho tiempo por la via tradicional. No hay que dar la espalda al desarrollo y aprender a usarlo convenientemente.

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