How AI Is changing music: creativity, copyright, and the future of songwriting

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.