As a musicologist, I had plenty of things to say about this.
The thing is, even when remixing was a thing in music, the music companies never ”solved it”. It was made to be a licensing thing, not an artistic thing.
The justifications were emotional, but no theoretical work was behind it. It was PR, propaganda.
Read my thoughts from 2023 here:
https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2023/04/20/ai-art-is-a-remix-the-djs-of-pictures/
#ai #musicology #art #theory
Toni Aittoniemi
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