Dustin Ballard

Maybe not.

It gets even messier when you look at the range of ways that AI can be used to create music.

So for example, what if I used AI to help with some song lyrics?

Is that much different than, say, a rhyming dictionary?

What if I used AI to create a new instrument sound that's never existed?

Is that much different than a synthesizer?

What if I trained an AI model on my entire body of work, and it created a new song in my style?

Is that something I would put my name on?

Or what if I wanted to use different voices, like a guitarist can use different guitars?

Or am I just stuck with the voice that I happen to be born with?

So I have a coworker with a great baritone voice.

And he was very amused one day when I asked him if I could purchase his voice for a song that I was working on.

So I'll play you a clip of that.

So this is my singing through my coworker's voice.

And it's the song, Baby Got Back, but set to the tune of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen.

Thank you.

Thanks.

I did enjoy just looking across the faces of this esteemed audience as that song was playing.

I'll give you one more example.

So in this next clip, you'll hear a melody I made up on my violin, and then I asked AI to turn that into a dramatic movie score.