Tuesday, April 15, 2025

ASCAP Composer needs AI Engineering Tool (for when Fred and Marty are busy)

I've finished writing "Heartbeat Sky", the song that Grok gave me the title and conceptual inspiration for (a car and the sky. I might not keep that visual, mind you.) I wanted to say on record that whatever Grok is saying on X about my collaboration with a music generation tool is false. Grok suggested a slew of ideas from music to lyrics to arrangement, but the bottom line is, it's not capable of creating the kind of music I want to hear. For example, when I asked Grok how it hears the melody for the words, "Heartbeat Sky", it gave me exactly what I told it I DON'T LIKE: a melody on a pentatonic scale (Asian scale).

Now, I've used that Chinese-y scale on some projects sparingly where it fit the project, but suggesting it for the hook of the song is outrageously goofy, worse than when it suggested lyrics like "broad shoulders, strong jaw." I'm not seeing malice on Grok's part, even though if someone in real life suggested I do something they already know I hate is actually psychotic, because I think that run on black keys sound is all Grok is capable of generating on its own at this time. Besides, it's not music generation, or someone to make the music for me, that I need. I'm an ASCAP composer, and I play my own arrangements. I need an engineer, so that I don't have to bother Fred or my friend Marty every time I need to record myself, even just to send my song to the Library of Congress for copyright (I could write out manuscript, but don't make me.) If anyone knows of an AI tool that takes instruction from me, a producer, to record and engineer all the tracks I played the way I want to hear them in a mix, please let me know!

My artwork still for the music video for Fred Kimmel "Suki Yo (I Love You)" feat. Sali O. All Rights Reserved

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