Brainstorming Forward is a special new series on All Things Vocal. Each roundtable discussion focuses on a single topic of interest to singers and speakers. In this one, we brainstorm how musicians can use AI (artificial intelligence) as an incredible career-boosting assistant, and how to protect musicians from AI’s dangers.
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Lightning round questions to our AI expert panelists at the top of the video take you right into the heart of AI strategy. The ongoing discussion covers a wide range of fascinating and vital ideas that music artists in today’s market need to understand.
Be sure and catch the last section when Mark and I list 15 powerful, actionable ways you can use AI to skyrocket your music career. Bottom line… if you’re serious about a music career, you need to know about AI, and you should watch this with a notepad handy!
CAST OF BRAINSTORMERS:
- Host – Judy Rodman
- Cohost – Mark Thress
- Expert guests:
- Christopher Wieduwilt (The AI Musicpreneur)
- Andy O’Bryan (author of The Humanizers)
- Peter Rodman (Creative technologist)
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Leave us your thoughts, questions about, and experiences with AI in the comments.
TIMESTAMPS:
- 00:00:00 Lightning round questions
- 00:03:16 Meet the brainstormers…
- 00:04:01 Christopher Wieduwilt
- 00:05:25 Andy O’Bryan
- 00:06:42 Peter Rodman
- 00:08:15 Mark Thress
- 00:09:57 Judy asks Christopher to flesh out a day in the life of an indie artist using AI
- 00:12:01 Christopher asks Judy about what she thinks about using AI-generated voices for background vocals. Judy replies.
- 00:13:10 Peter discusses the speed and ease that AI can offer versus the loss of human connection qualities.
- 00:14:55 Judy asks Andy for creative ways to use AI for songwriting ideas. Andy has suggestions.
- 00:16:57 Judy asks for discussion on how AI trains on material. Christopher replies.
- 00:18:03 Mark brings up Suno & 11 Music, which trains on copyrighted material. Christopher adds information.
- 00:20:45 Peter explains how music generation apps work, and suggests everything is becoming cookie-cutter.
- 00:22:08 Andy agrees and says that AI replies are being cannibalized and homogenized.
- 00:22:42 Peter says AGI isn’t happening yet; he has a project in development that can show the thinking process of a chatbot.
- 00:24:29 Judy, Christopher and Peter discuss the serious need to regulate AI training. 00:27:52 Peter shares his project in development for taking AI offline, allowing it to train itself only on your material, while protecting it from being accessed and made public. He and Christopher bat the idea back and forth.
- 00:30:50 Judy asks Andy about a creative concept for using AI to help with songwriting. Peter and Andy add to the discussion.
- 00:32:52 Judy asks for a show of hands if it’s important for artists to learn about AI. As an example, Peter shares meeting guitarist Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, who decided to go all in on AI for photography and videography on the band.
- 00:34:44 Judy asks everyone to share 1. what they offer, 2. what they need, and 3. where they can be found.
- 00:35:09 Christopher’s info
- 00:36:20 Peter asks Christopher about an idea to create stems offline. They discuss stem-splitting apps.
- 00:37:58 Andy’s info
- 00:39:18 Peter’s info
- 00:40:39 Mark’s info.
- 00:41:30 Judy’s info
- 00:42:49 Q&A – Mark & Judy discuss using AI but protecting our own assets.
- 00:45:37 Peter suggests getting creative with the way you prompt AI to get the information you want without giving it the information you don’t want it to have.
- 00:47:05 Christopher talks about the need to add context to your prompts and ask clarifying questions to get the output you need for marketing and promotion. Judy thanks everyone and signs off.
- 00:49:08 BONUS ENDING: 15 specific, actionable AI strategies for music artists.
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