Jessica Powell

In-person music creation has been exceedingly tough the last two years, but innovations in virtual collaborative writing, new social networks, AI-generated music, and more have made this an exciting time to make music.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are changing the way we interact with the world on a daily basis. The potential of AI/ML to transform music creation and how we experience it is being increasingly realized as musictech startups and global powerhouses release groundbreaking technologies. Whether it is stem isolation used by Kanye West’s Stem Player, deep user analytics used to enhance music discovery by Spotify or Google’s Magenta, which generates new music with minimal user interaction, the world of music is being affected in profound ways by these technologies.

This panel seeks to specifically explore the evolution of careers in the music industry as they are disrupted by this automation. Will studio drummers be out of work when drum machines get so good that it is hard to tell the difference? Are mastering engineers’ careers threatened by the advent of AI mastering tools? Is the music creation process going to be replaced by computers? We explore these questions and much more.