For instance, the heavy distortion of Kobain’s grunge riffs were more difficult to recreate as new music than Hendrix’s more defined style.
#THE LOST TAPES OF THE 27 CLUB SOFTWARE#
He said the software had an easier time with some artists than others. Those fragments were then assembled into complete songs. “We put in 30 riffs from an artist and it would output 5 minutes of new riff and we’d be sitting there listening to it with our audio engineer and just pulling out moments,” said O’Connor. The program then spat out all-new music and lyrics that were assembled into songs. To create the music, AI programs were used to analyze dozens of songs by each artist, including rhythms, melodies, hooks and lyrics.
The four-song ‘album’ includes “Drowned in the Sun” in the spirit of Nirvana, the Jimi Hendrix-inspired “You’re Gonna Kill Me”, the Amy Winehouse take “Man, I Know”, and Doors-like “The Roads Are Alive”. That was the seed of the thought that we started with,” said O’Connor. “We just had this idea to sort of imagine the music that these artists could have made had they had the mental health support.
But in the music industry we always sort of glamorize it and romanticize it and it's always an idea of the struggling artist and the authentic art,” he told CTVnews.ca in an interview.Īccording to Over the Bridge, more than two-thirds of musicians have experienced instances of depression, and workers in the industry are twice as likely to attempt suicide as in the general population. “I think if this were any other industry we would be up in arms about what an epidemic this is. The goal of the project is to draw attention to those in the industry who struggle with mental illness and substance abuse and fight back against its often romanticized place in the music scene, says Sean O’Connor, a board member at Over the Bridge and a creative director at ad agency ReTHINK Canada. Winehouse, Cobain, Morrison and Hendrix are all members of the so-called ’27 club’ – artists, musicians, actors and athletes who all died at the age of 27, many due to substance abuse or other mental health-related issues. “The Lost Tapes of the 27 Club” uses artificial intelligence – and some human assistance – to create ‘new’ songs by Winehouse, Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix and the Jim Morrison-led Doors. For anyone who’s ever lost themselves in a Nirvana or Amy Winehouse song and wondered wistfully what music they would have produced if Winehouse and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain had lived beyond their 20s, a new project by mental health organization Over the Bridge has provided an AI-generated answer.
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