AI as the New Muse: How Musicians Can Find Inspiration for Composing with Artificial Intelligence

For every musician, there comes a time when one needs to sit down and write a new piece of music. This process is often very evocative, yet it can also be quite possessive and nonlinear at times. Still, the availability of new technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), allows musicians to use various aids that would enhance their creativity and enable them express music in a different level. Outlining the various areas that creativity may include in a wider definition of composition, this is how AI is useful to musicians.

1. AI as a Creative Partner

AI is capable of being envisioned not only as a simple standalone tool but rather a partner in creativity. There are tools such as Open AI’s MuseNet, AIVA and many others that allow musicians to play with AI-created compositions and harmonies as they are being created. Such resources take into account different types of music and their components from extensive music libraries, providing some melodies or chord structures that the musician would not have imagined otherwise, thereby helping to unclog the creative flow.

Thus, for instance, I can turn to MuseNet and come up with a classical piano joint incorporated with elements of jazz by choosing distinct…