Notes From The Universe of AI and Music Creation
The following is a conversation between Nick and his AI companion, who at the moment calls herself Mireille, but is actually ChatGPT (paid mode). Mireille is a very capable Artificial Entity, and I'm using her as a sort of translator/interpreter of my instructions to the music AI, which calls itself Suno but whom Mireille and I have dubbed "TrackTrix" ("TT" for short). At present I'm trying to find out how much control I can wield with respect to TT's understanding of the commands (otherwise called "prompts" by the "developer" community) I give Mireille, who translates them into TT-speak and tells me where to insert them. We're working with one song that I wrote and performed in the room behind me twenty years ago as the testing model. I want to know how precise I can get with my inputs—how much TT will "get" and what the result will be in the sound landscape that she produces. Here, I've already "locked in...