How A.I. Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art
Using neural networks, he and his team are crossbreeding sounds from very different instruments — say, a bassoon
and a clavichord — creating instruments capable of producing sounds no one has ever heard.
As Mr. Eck says, these systems are at least approaching the point — still many, many years away — when a machine can instantly build a new Beatles
song or perhaps trillions of new Beatles songs, each sounding a lot like the music the Beatles themselves recorded, but also a little different.
“This is a totally new aesthetic.”
In 2015, a separate team of researchers inside Google created DeepDream, a tool
that uses neural networks to generate haunting, hallucinogenic imagescapes from existing photography, and this has spawned new art inside Google and out.