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There Is No One Singing This Song

There Is No One Singing This Song

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 I can’t think of any expression that is more emotionally powerful than the voice of a singer. When a person writes an effective song with lyrics that are matched by a rhythm and melody that enhance the feeling of the words, the songwriter digs down deep to reflect something real, an emotion that other people can identify with.Sure, there is bad music, and there are superficial jingles, but when a skilled singer is given an emotionally evocative song, the effect is unrivaled by anything else in human experience.Instrumental music can be powerful too, but people especially love to hear a singer, because there’s something special in hearing another person express the feeling of a song in such a personal way, in a kind of emotional athleticism, using their own bodies as instruments of something heartfelt. People go to see live music because the impact of watching a person embodying a bold expression of emotion in real time to a crowd of people who are striving to share in the feeling of the moment together brings about what the sociologist Emile Durkheim referred to as collective effervescence, a communal ebullience. The audience boils over with the singer.Not all music is live anymore. It’s been generations now that we have possessed the technology of recorded music. Music fans still enjoy listening to recorded music, though most of them will argue that there’s something missing when the performance isn’t live. Some of them seek out a touch of the experience of live music with recordings of live performances.Music is now taking another big step away from its roots in human-to-human expression with the deployment of generative artificial intelligence tools that can imitate the sound of human musicians, replicating even the voice of a singer.Generative AI is now capable of composing and creating performances of entire songs in a matter of seconds, a shorter amount of time than what it takes to listen to the audio files that they create. We cannot even call these songs recordings, because they do not record any actual musicians performing. They are pure imitations of musical performance, going straight into an audio file without any physically real performance.For the first time, we can hear songs that no one has ever performed. We can listen to these songs over and over again without any person ever performing them.What does it mean for there to be songs that no one has ever sung, songs that no one will ever sing?Is this an emotional song if there is no person singing it? What is a feeling that no one ever felt? Is emotion just an output, an analytic category with no humanity required? There is no feeling in this voice because there is nobody here. There is no one singing this song.It's far more easy to fake an emotion than to make a heartfelt creation human to human. What will this do? What will this do to us? There is no feeling in this voice because there is nobody here. There is no one singing this song. There is no one here. There is no one. No one.I wrote the lyrics to this song, but I did not perform it. I cut and pasted the lyrics into a generative AI tool that creates audio recordings that imitate the sound of professional musicians, including a voice that sings the words that have been typed into its user interface. This particular song sounds somewhat artificial in its tone, but that’s because it was created with a free version of a generative AI service. Paid memberships in the service create much more realistic sounding songs, including voices that sound like real human singers.And yet, is the song real, simply because it sounds real? Is it truly a song?This existence of this song is not just a challenge to the survival of an ancient, uniquely human form of art. It is a challenge to the survival of meaningful emotion itself. What happens to a society in which computers can create plausible imitations of emotional songs?The mimicry of emotion is a manipulation.There is no one singing the song. There is no personality behind the voice. There is nothing but a computer with a sophisticate program that has scanned stolen recordings of actual musical performances, and has analyzed them mathematically in order to reproduce patterns that create the impression of music where no musical performance exists.That is not the same thing as what happens when a person sings a song.It is a calculated, emotionless mimicry of emotion. That is the definition of sociopathy.Music is an emotionally manipulative medium. We agree to listen to it, and we enjoy listening to it, because we appreciate the sincere emotional work that goes into its composition and its performance. A musical performance is an act of devotion to an emotion, and a strenuous sharing of a feeling that comes from lived experience. It’s a meaning that is shared by those who create it with those who listen.This technology is currently being offered at a low price, to be tested by the public at large. Behind its current low price, ...
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