The Chaos Between is a project to use AI (Artificial Intelligence) as a tool to create music. Specifically metal music. The instruments and vocals in the songs are not from real people but rather AI generated instruments and vocals. AI can easily create new songs but then those songs would be from the “inspiration” of AI (if thats even real). In this project AI is a tool that can be used to create songs that are from human inspiration. The songs are made by Christopher Chaos while using AI to generate the songs. The ideas for the songs come from human inspiration to tell a story. Using AI to help write the lyrics for each song, Christopher Chaos edits and modifies the AI results. AI then uses those lyrics to build a song. The results are often not the best and can take several attempts to get an outcome that can be worked with. When an acceptable song is made, it is then modified in audio editing software to create the end result.
Using AI to create songs takes away from the real art!
I would agree, depending on how its being used. Someone could use AI to just automate the process of making music. If AI is being used as a tool in order to express someone’s creativity then the art is just being created in a new manner. Take for example how many things are made today. A long time ago everything had to be made by hand. To speed up the process we started to use machines to assemble the items. Often that assembly is still guided by people to make sure its being done right but they did not actually assemble the item themselves. Are hand crafted items better than items built using machines on an assembly line? Sure, they can be, but in this case the project is not to try an make better music than a band that is made up of real people collaborating together to write and record new music, its meant to create new music in a different and interesting way with hopes to entertain and inspire others to make their own music. That inspiration cold be to inspire someone to learn to play an instrument, learn to sing or use AI as a tool that could turn their inspiration into a reality.
Why not just form a band and make music?
In the case of the person behind The Chaos Between (Christopher Chaos), he has done that before. That created some challenges though. There was a process to find band members with similar interests to make the music. There was the challenge to have space where everyone could come together to work on the music. There was the challenge of making sure that everyone had time to get together to work on new music. At the time of Chris’s first band he was serving in the US Army and dedicating time to practice and create new music did not always line up with when the other members had time to create and practice. In his second attempt Chris had a full time job and a family. Can it still be done? Sure it can. There are tons of bands in the same situation that make it happen. For this project Chris has just decided he would like to take a shot and being able to create his music on his own terms. Create music he wants to create, when he wants to create and how he wants to create.