{"id":13458,"date":"2023-08-14T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T11:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1398979"},"modified":"2023-08-14T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T11:45:30","slug":"composition-co-written-by-ai-performed-by-choir-and-published-as-sheet-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=13458","title":{"rendered":"Composition co-written by AI performed by choir and published as sheet music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span>Ed Newton-Rex, a <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/how-creative-ai-can-change-the-future-of-music-for-everyone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">creative AI pioneer<\/a> and VP Audio at Stability AI, says that he\u2019s become the first author to publish a piece of classical music that uses generative <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI<\/a>. The musician and entrepreneur wrote his \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boosey.com\/shop\/prod\/2596366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span>I stand in the library<\/span><\/a><span>,\u201d a piece for the choir and piano, to a poem produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/openai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenAI<\/a>\u2018s generative AI model GPT3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Written back in 2022, the 15-minute composition has been premiered at the Live from London online classical music festival, performed by a choral group VOCES8. The full version of the performance is available (behind paywall) on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/livefromlondon.org\/voces8-foundation-choir-orchestra-to-sing-of-love\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span>the festival\u2019s website<\/span><\/a><span>, but here\u2019s an exclusive preview to give you a general idea:<\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n<p> <iframe srcdoc=\"\n\n<style>*{padding:0;margin:0;overflow:hidden}html,body{background:#000;height:100%}img{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;transition:opacity .1s cubic-bezier(0.4,0,1,1)}a:hover img+img{opacity:1!important}<\/style>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wSdBoXt7vBY?feature=oembed&amp;autoplay=1&amp;mute=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;theme=light&amp;playsinline=1'><img src='https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/wSdBoXt7vBY\/hqdefault.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/themes\/cyberdelia\/assets\/img\/ytplaybtn.png' style='top: 50%;left:50%;width:68px;height:48px;transform:translate3d(-50%,-50%,0)'><img src='https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/themes\/cyberdelia\/assets\/img\/ytplaybtn-hover.png' style='top: 50%;left:50%;width:68px;height:48px;opacity:0;transform:translate3d(-50%,-50%,0)'><\/a>&#8221; height=&#8221;240&#8243; width=&#8221;320&#8243; allow=&#8221;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#8221; allowfullscreen frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243;>[embedded content]<\/iframe> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p> <!--resp-video-container--><\/p>\n<p><span>Talking to TNW about writing the piece, Newton-Rex said that the idea came when he got access to GPT3 as one of the early testers. The prompt he gave the model was simply \u201cbelow is a poem about music and solitude\u201d. Based on that, the system came up with the first line \u2014 \u201cI stand in the library where a voice soars,\u201d \u2014&nbsp; which the musician found appealing enough to encourage the model to keep going.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cProbably some five to 10 times I would delete a line and tell it to regenerate because it would get stuck in a loop,\u201d Newton-Rex recalled. \u201cSo, I curated it, but I really didn\u2019t do that much. 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Sign up now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>All in all, he said, the poem \u201cis not going to win any poetry competitions. But it\u2019s not bad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The AI writing room<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>An important question about creating art with the support of AI is understanding what role it actually plays. In the case of \u201cI stand in the library,\u201d the GPT-generated lyrics had quite some influence on the human composer\u2019s creative process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat GPT3 really did here was provide inspiration,\u201d Newton-Rex said. \u201cIt just randomly chose to mention a piano. And because it did that, I ended up thinking, \u2018well, I\u2019ll write this piece for choir and piano,\u2019 which I don\u2019t usually do. Choir and piano is not a very common combination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut what I found super interesting is that I enjoyed that process so much that I ended up writing a bunch more choir and piano pieces, and it\u2019s now become one of my go-to styles. And that\u2019s interesting, because if I didn\u2019t use GPT3 on that one particular day, and this stochastic process did not randomly output the word piano, my writing style would now be quite different.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How do you publish AI work?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>Newton-Rex has been composing choral music for many years now. Most of his work is published by UK-based sheet music publisher Boosey &amp; Hawkes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt is not the biggest industry in the world, my royalty checks are very small,\u201d he remarked with a laugh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With the latest piece, the publisher had a hard time working out the legalities, Newton-Rex added. It was not able to get guidance from the UK\u2019s Performing Rights Society (PRS) on registering the copyright on both the music and the text if the latter is generated by AI.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As a result, \u201cI stand in the library\u201d is published as an instrumental composition, meaning that the lyrics aren\u2019t protected by copyright laws. This is not the first time AI generated music has been afforded intellectual property rights. For example, soundtrack composer AIVA <span>(Artificial Intelligence Virtual Artist), is registered under the France and Luxembourg authors\u2019 right society (SACEM).<\/span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI would guess that it\u2019s not ideal for a music publisher to not be able to protect the text,\u201d Newton-Rex said. \u201cI suspect that actually wouldn\u2019t be something that could really scale, which may be good for human creators.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Although working with AI on his day job at Stability AI, Newton-Rex doesn\u2019t consider changing his creative process for now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s much more of an artistic experiment and artistic statement than it is a question of [large language models] replacing poets,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like I\u2019m going to use GPT for all of my texts \u2014 I\u2019m going back to normal poetry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There\u2019s definitely a role for AI to play in creative endeavours, as it adds random (or pseudo-random) inputs to spark human creativity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAI can get us out of creative loops, it can just give us new ideas,\u201d Newton-Rex said. \u201cIt\u2019s like being in a writing room with someone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The AI\u2019s poem<\/h2>\n<p><span>If you\u2019re curious about the text generated by AI for the choral piece, here it is in full:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>I stand in the library<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>where a voice soars,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>and I am taken back<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>to my childhood,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>to the days when I first<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>heard the sound of the piano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I was too young<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>to understand the meaning<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>of the words I was singing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yet the sound of the music<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>was in me, and I was moved<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>by the purity of that sound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>As I was borne along by the music, a solitary tear ran down my cheek. I did not understand why I was crying. I did not know that the voice I heard was my own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>III<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Crouching by the window<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>in the library,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I hear a voice that is not mine<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>rise up from my chest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>IV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>It is the sound of this voice<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>that I hear<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>through the window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is the sound<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>echoing through the trees<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>in the courtyard<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>that makes me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>crouch down<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>and hide my face<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>in my hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>V<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>In the darkness<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>of my mind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>there is a place<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>that I cannot reach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>in that secret place,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>that the most beautiful music<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>resides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>VI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>I stand in the library.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I am surrounded by books.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>They are my friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>They are my teachers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>They are my protectors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I can find comfort in their pages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I can find knowledge in their words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I can find safety in their presence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I am never alone when I am with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>They are always there for me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Standing tall and proud,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Guarding their secrets,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Waiting to be discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>VII<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Knowledge is like a river<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It flows through our minds<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And fills us with its wisdom<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Its waters are clear and pure<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And they quench our thirst for understanding<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We drink in its richness<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And it sustains us on our journey<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Without knowledge, we would be lost<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the desert of ignorance<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But with knowledge, we can find our way<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To the oasis of enlightenment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIII<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>I am at war with the world,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And all its inhabitants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>They take and they take,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And they never give back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But I find solace in books,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the library\u2019s quiet corners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I can lose myself for hours,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And forget all my troubles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I stand in the library,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And I am at peace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/composition-cowritten-ai-performed-choir-published-sheet-music\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Newton-Rex, a creative AI pioneer and VP Audio at Stability AI, says that he\u2019s become the first author to publish a piece of classical music that uses generative AI. 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