Ge Wang doesn't use computer systems to make music like most individuals use computer systems to make music. He makes use of computer systems to make… laptop music. Wang works at Stanford as an affiliate professor within the Heart for Computing Analysis in Music and Acoustics. He additionally leads the college's well-known laptop computer orchestra, co-founded music app maker Smule, and created a programming language known as Chuck that turns code into sound. He understands how computer systems, music and folks work together extra deeply than most. He additionally has some concepts about the place it's all going.
On this episode of The Vergecastthird and last in our mini-series on the way forward for music, we discuss with Wang about what's subsequent for laptop music. He tells us the best way to train his college students to play with expertise moderately than making an attempt to grasp it, and the way toolmakers ought to method their work in an age of AI.
This dialog goes to sudden and deep locations, as so many conversations about AI are likely to do. We discuss loads about what it means to be artistic, and even human, in a world filled with expertise designed to make all the things extra environment friendly, simpler and extra homogeneous.
Whether or not you're writing an e mail or a symphony, there's a software designed to make it simpler. However is the objective simpler? And if it isn't, how will we protect all of the issues that make laborious work price doing? What are we people even right here for? Like I stated, it acquired deep. However we cherished it and we predict you’ll too.
If you wish to be taught extra about Ge and his work, listed here are some hyperlinks to get you began: