Artistic Intuition and Algorithmic Prediction in Music Production
Mads Walther-Hansen · Focal Press eBooks · 2024
Recently, many music producers have integrated AI-based technologies into their workflow. Still, AI’s role as a component in the artistic process of making new music in the recording studio is poorly understood. This paper examines the relationship between human intuition and AI prediction to outline the conditions for innovation in sound in the recording studio. It discusses AI’s role in the decision-making process and the possible future consequences for the art of music production. It is further argued that introducing still more advanced AI tools in the music production environment will require music producers to learn to navigate between three metacognitive strategies: internal, offload, and outsource .