Video, 3 mins
How AI Is changing music: creativity, copyright, and the future of songwriting
Discover how music and technology meet in this episode. From drum machines to AI tools, explore what counts as music today.
27 Aug 2025 09:05
In this episode, Nikki Dibben, Professor of Music, and Guy Brown, Professor of Computer Science, dive into the fast-evolving relationship between AI and music, asking the big questions about where creativity meets computation.
From drum machines and synthesizers in the 1980s, to today’s AI-driven composition tools, they explore how technology continues to reshape the role of musicians, forcing us to ask: what even counts as music anymore?
They discuss their collaboration with John McClure of Reverend and the Makers on a cutting-edge project to develop AI tools that support the songwriting process.
Credits
- Professor Nikki Dibben (Professor of Music at the University of Sheffield)
- Professor Guy Brown (Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield)