The effect of Artificial Intelligence, the ability for technology to help the creative and productive process, is being felt everywhere. It is used to expand the writer’s abilities, push the boundaries and capabilities of a graphic artist’s work, and give music makers access to a palette of sounds that they might otherwise have at their fingertips, not to mention to merge and mould, match, and meld those sonic elements into new sounds and styles.
AI Village: Vol. 1, as the name suggests, is a collection of songs forged at the intersection of songwriting traditions and technology’s potential. Robert Mosby offers ten songs garnered from the realms of R&B and neo-soul, the chilled end of the nightclub dancefloor, and the gentle shores of commercial pop, and the results are quite remarkable.
It is remarkable that, as a listener, it is hard to tell just what the exact mix of analogue sounds and digital creation is. The AI element may be merely the poise and polish, the icing on the cake. Perhaps it owes its entire existence to such a nonhuman creative process. The fact that you really can’t tell where the dividing line is shows us just how successful such a formula is.