Video, 3 mins
How AI Is changing music: creativity, copyright, and the future of songwriting
Discover how music and technology meet in this episode. From drum machines to AI tools, explore what counts as music today.
Part of Beyond the algorithm: Shaping AI for people, not just progress, Artificial Intelligence, 2025 Research Highlights
27 Aug 2025 09:05
In this episode, Nikki Dibben, Professor of Music, and Guy Brown, Professor of Computer Science, dive into the fast-evolving relationship between AI and music, asking the big questions about where creativity meets computation.
From drum machines and synthesizers in the 1980s, to today’s AI-driven composition tools, they explore how technology continues to reshape the role of musicians, forcing us to ask: what even counts as music anymore?
They discuss their collaboration with John McClure of Reverend and the Makers on a cutting-edge project to develop AI tools that support the songwriting process.
Credits
- Professor Nikki Dibben (Professor of Music at the University of Sheffield)
- Professor Guy Brown (Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield)
