Concerning the Question of Determining the Role of Artificial Intellect in Music

In the present article the issue is raised about evaluation of the use of artificial intellect in the creation of musical compositions. By means of an interdisciplinary approach, the authors assert the thesis about the distinction between “creativity” and the “creative process”, thereby distinguishing the results of the composer’s personality from those created by means of artificial intellect (weak neuronal networks). The authors dwell in great detail on the process of creating musical compositions by using electronic computers and the latest neuronal networks. Special examples from music history show that modern computers possess unique sound generation technologies: for example, NSynth is able to synthesize a completely new sound, which simultaneously is partially a flute sound and partially resembles a sitar. Can we regard these latest digital processes in music as creativity? The authors of the article defend the position that in the present day they can only be described as a variant of the “creative process”, which leaves the right for authorship to the composer. The issues raised in the article are particularly relevant in the modern era which, considering the accelerated development of digital technologies, may well pass into the era of transhumanism, when the ongoing connection of the human and the artificial intellect would only exacerbate these problems to a greater degree. Keywords: music, musical composition, creativity, harmony, art, figure, artificial intellect, neuronal network, algorithm

Cognitive science · Epistemology · Intellect · Diverse Musicological Studies · Music and Audio Processing · Philosophy · Psychology

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