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Source Music
Background jazz in a restaurant, rock playing in a bar, music coming from a radio, club, store, vehicle, or other environment within a scene. In some productions, creating custom material with AI assistance may provide a practical alternative to licensing existing recordings while still allowing the music to be shaped specifically for the project.
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Rapid Musical Prototyping
AI-assisted tools can be useful for exploring arrangements, instrumentation, stylistic directions, or variations before developing the final music through a more traditional composition and production process.
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Tight Budgets & Schedules
For projects with unusually tight budgets or schedules, hybrid techniques can provide additional production flexibility while keeping the composer's creative direction, editing, arrangement, orchestration, performance, and final decision-making at the center of the work.
The appropriate workflow will always depend on the project. Some music is best created entirely through traditional composition and production; other situations may benefit from selectively incorporating emerging tools.
Audio Examples
These are complete songs, yet each one was created in a fraction of the time a traditional composition and recording process would take, because several of the instrumentalists are AI.
The song form, harmonic progression, motivic evolution, and overall musical direction were all written by hand, by me, to fit specific needs.
And because every one of these is still a completely custom composition, there would be no additional cost associated with using it as music in a project.
The first several pieces were also an experiment in low-key, ECM-inspired chamber jazz, built around a small ensemble with cello as the primary solo voice. The goal was an intimate, sparse, and deliberately understated sound, while the full-length song forms allowed for substantial motivic development and evolution throughout each piece.
Each of these is a one-minute example of electronic underscore.
Because they come out of a hybrid composition pipeline, they were created very quickly. They also remain fully editable. I can rework an entire layer, or go all the way down to the smallest detail, adding, removing, or changing a single chirp or blip, because every element is still in my hands as the composer.
That is the practical difference between a hybrid approach and music generated entirely by AI, where a targeted revision at that level is, at least for now, far more difficult. When a note comes back on a cue, I can change exactly what the note asks for and leave everything else untouched.