This is a playlist I’m continually adding to as I get a from a quick inspiration recorded on my phone, or weeks in protools, spanning over a decade with some early Garage Band recordings from when first was learning a Daw. Recordings spanning over a decade. These are my songs and Ideas If you’re curious of how I have remixed them using Suno check out my Borg With Songs Playlist. I made them able to remix or sample and there is a variety of genres and instruments. Backwards guitar to electric guitar with a bow, drums and more. There is not a consistency in the quality because these were recorded in many different circumstances, but that is what I’ve used a Suno for to explore different ways I’ve envisioned them. 

I think most of us when we play one of our songs raw on an acoustic guitar there is a lot of instrumentation timbres & tones accompanying them in our heads, but we all don’t have millions of dollars or infinite time & most of us that are musicians and that use our own audio I think are using Suno for exploration into our own art. Most of us are not interested in the commodification of our music we make it because we enjoy it or enjoy performing with friends. There are moral questions about AI with data centers and such, but as far as defending the old paradigm of the commodification of music I couldn’t give two 💩💩 a system that was always full of exploitation and most musicians even successful ones had to squeeze out a living through live performances. 

TBH the age of streaming harmed most of us more. I’m old enough to remember touring in the age CDs and knowing as long as you had a box of cd’s some headphones and a disc man and some ambition, you could make it to the next town even if it meant being friendly and approaching strangers with headphones.

Whatever this new paradigm holds I would say one benefit is human performance and live music has gone up in value as people’s distain for AI grows. Eventually that distain will pass and be forgotten, maybe AI will destroy us all who knows but I ponder a lot about how human artists will evolve and still be able to push new boundaries, there will always be and has always been an appreciation for the traditional, there will also be others layers of something new that is still human. The thing I find most disingenuous about haters that are quick to credit robots for anything where AI tools are used is the lack of nuance of recognizing the human parts & ingredients that are often involved. I get it though there are real ethical questions about these big tech companies. Including Spotify drones in Gaza. Or our phones cobalt batteries and the Congo. 

People are free to have their opinions but I think artists experimenting and learning about new world we are navigating are not the villain. This new world is coming and if all artists & musicians refused to explore new tools and inject their own ingredients then homogenized low effort slop becomes even more prevalent and most the music future generations get exposed to might be lacking any human involvement. We already a lot of cookie cutter slop even before AI as the music industry tried to repeat successes of trends & now that anyone can recreate million dollar sounding productions who knows what will happen. Using Suno it is hard to fight the homogenized sounds and voices and is actually getting harder in opinion with every new generation and it is challenge to create something original, I mean easy to mash up different styles and say yeah that sounds original but I mean the sounds and textures themselves. I think anyone who has explored Suno deeply throughout its evolution understands.   
If you know you know. 

I hope Eventually Suno we be left in the dust and it will be small models trained on our own audio that can be ran locally on our own computers, that will emerge as the tools we find most useful if using AI and the unique quality of the things built on our own human ingredients made from our own audio that produce the unique quality that will edge over the homogeny of big tech. Some will choose abstain completely but as always others will explore and Artists will evolve and that we should fight keep human involvement. 

“Suno is built on stolen works” honestly I just see as a talking point for big tech to gain regulatory capture because they will be able to pay legal fees and fines and regulatory capture using the stolen works talking point’s might lead to laws that prevent the rise of the world I just described above where we use our own models ran on our local computer without huge data centers or giving money to big tech with military contracts, because at least for these are the ethical dilemmas that weigh heavy. I don’t have a problem with people having strong feelings about AI and its use I have a problem with allowing those emotions to be used to make people pawns for the very thing they are trying to fight against. 

[Indie Uploads] by @Vinyl_Idol, No AI, 100% my original uploaded audio, sung with my voice and played on physical instruments with my own two hands (feel free to sample)