The Artist
Martin Clancy · Focal Press eBooks · 2022
Holly Herndon shares her vision of the trajected development of AI technologies in music. This chapter explores how AI has inspired Herndon’s collaborations with different artists and musicians. Holly Herndon reflects on how contemporary artists can navigate challenges within the music industry and shares her perspective on the future development and implementation of AI within creative music practice. Holly Herndon explores how music production can be improved by technology. She reviews the human-centred approach and assumes significance of AI being a supplementary tool for creative process. This chapter will investigate the impact of the ‘misleading’ nature of the term AI and the possible consequences it might bring to the art. Holly Herndon will share her personal experience of going through the COVID pandemic in 2019 and reveal the inspiration and project drawn from that. This chapter will discuss copyright and diversity issues. Holly Herndon addresses the copyright court cases and connects the possible implications in law and ethics to the disruptive nature of AI in the music industry. She emphasises her fascination for human voice and its important part in music-creation practice.