DJ performance remixing AI-created music- which is then live-remixed by a 2nd AI

Do you or anyone else know which software I'm talking about?

I have listened to so much generative music the last 25 years and there was one piano piece that was really good and something that felt like a unique style. Not good enough though that I even remember the name of the piece.

Generative music is really no different than what you get when a human starts noodling around with music making software. It is almost literally the same process.

I tried to make it in as many styles as possible. "Crossing The Channel" is a favorite, because the tempo is so unique. I think the GPT made a mistake early on, and then completed the most likely "not-mistake," which caused the piece to have some pretty unique timing.

Maybe someday I'll dig up the model off my old laptop. I thought everyone would be making nice-sounding AI music, but I guess nobody can match a Gwern-trained model. He's the Hattori Hanzo of ML.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFVGwGQcB0

It's ... simple, right? It's just a few really good choices in an unbelievably enormous nearly-Hilbert space. I could listen to that stuff forever.

Most of Nirvana's songs have a similar quality. Judging from where OpenAI Jukebox was a couple years ago, I imagine in a decade we might have AI that sounds as good as Nirvana.

On the other hand, my favorite piece ever is Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. We seem to be very far away from any kind of Stravinsky algorithm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMkyIJ0g5sg

Its like movie scene with a KONG FU FIGHT where the opponents puts on a wheelhouse show with impressive moves. But ultimately get knocked out with one simple effective counter punch when they clash. And ultimately you know who the real master always was.

I’ve heard some DJ really elevate tracks with the way they’ve mixed them. I myself would typically have two or more tracks playing at once (more than 3+ deck mixes when playing on vinyl turntables or up to 5 channels when playing from Ableton) and using that to layer percussion loops over older electronica and industrial tracks to make them sound fresher and more club friendly.

I’ve also heard some DJs completely ruin songs by badly mixing a sparsely engineered track (ie something set at a particular tempo but sounds a lot slower) after something heavier and more pounding, thus sucking the energy out of the second track.

Even with pop songs where there isn’t a whole lot you can actually do with them, I’ve heard some DJs take average or even bad pop songs and drop the hook between some really good songs and do so in a way that really compliments both. Resulting in the otherwise average pop song sounding better than it normally would if it were played in full.

Not to mention there’s DJs who spin their own remixes of tracks. DJs who seek out bootlegs. DJs who bring fx and synths to gigs. And all the other creative stuff going on beyond just spinning other peoples records.

I remember spending a few weeks trying to track down a song I’d heard on a mix tape one weekend, only to discover it was actually two different tracks. an instrumental electro with an a cappella layered over it. It sounded perfectly mixed as if it were originally released like that.

I also remember spending months tracking down a remix of Leftfield’s Space Shanty, which I heard then play on a Radio1 essential mix. Turned out that was a one off pressing they made for a few gigs in ‘93.

DJing is a really diverse scene and those that play the in bars of your local high street pub or the guys that entertain your drunk uncles at your sisters wedding are really only the upper most tip of the iceberg in terms of DJing.