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Image Credit: Vinicius Amano<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lost Tapes of the 27 Club uses AI to create an album of songs that the artists never had the chance to write, to draw attention to music\u2019s mental health crisis.<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A newly released Lost Tapes of the 27 Club<\/a> <\/em>compilation features unheard tracks by Nirvana, Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix and The Doors \u2013 except they\u2019re fake songs, generated by an AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eerie similarities to the artists\u2019 existing hits were made possible with Google\u2019s Magenta<\/a> artificial intelligence software. The AI studied the work of the musicians to create entirely new tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a serious point behind the gimmick of hearing \u201cnew\u201d songs from the famous artists. Toronto-based organisation Over the Bridge<\/a> sought to create songs that the featured artists might have gone on to release, had they not died at a young age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/jh3dNJIYO2M\n<\/div>
“Lost” Amy Winehouse song “Man, I Know”<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The aim of Over the Bridge\u2019s project is to draw attention to the ongoing mental health crisis <\/a>in the music industry \u2013 if the featured artists had access to mental health support,<\/a> would things have turned out differently?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The music on Lost Tapes of the 27 Club <\/em>was created by Magenta. The program analysed 30 songs from each artist as MIDI files; the pitch and rhythm were turned to digital code and fed through a synthesiser to create musical elements. An audio engineer then took the riffs and melodies to compose the song. The lyrics meanwhile were generated by an AI in a similar manner, using lyrics from the artist\u2019s back catalogue. Vocals-wise, in the case of \u201cDrowned in the Sun\u201d the Kurt Cobain-style performance is provided by the lead singer of a Nirvana<\/a> tribute band, Eric Hogan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tortured artist is still much-romanticised in popular culture. Notions that great art is only created after a struggle are encouraged with ideas such as the \u201c27 club,” made up of talented artists who struggled with mental health issues<\/a> and all died at the age of 27. The fixation on the age and talent of the artists risks making becoming a member of the club an exclusive, aspirational thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Drowned in the Sun” – a fake Nirvana song<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The novelty factor of the AI does have the distracting effect of the listener focusing more on analysing the similarities to the original artists rather than thinking about the sombre connotations. They are<\/em> passable imitations, though \u2013 “Nirvana<\/a>‘s” song \u201cDrowned in the Sun\u201d suitably echoes \u201cCome As You Are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experiments with artificial intelligence continue to surface in the music industry. Earlier this year robot rapper FN Meka<\/a> released a single \u201cSpeed Demon,\u201d written by an AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Music Minds Matter Helpline: 0808 802 8008<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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