Suno issued its model version 5 a few weeks ago. Reason enough to spend a few hours on the platform again and generate some great covers of my songs!
I started this journey in May this year with Suno v4.5, see here if you want to take a look. As before, the songs are available under Creative Commons by-nc-sa. Since algorithmically generated works are not copyrightable in almost all countries, I am taking again the liberty of making the covers generated by Suno available here as well.
Let’s start with two excerpts from our (Beat’s and mine) 2001 Esoteric Funk album, with which I already tried my luck in May with Suno 4.5, but was not satisfied with the outcome. But this time, it’s a completely different league!
Here is the original track, from which I took two parts (two minutes each) to cover: EsotericFunk Track01.
And here are the Suno covers of part B in ascending “weirdness” (I like the weirdest ones most, of course):
And here the part A covers, all pretty wild and great suno arrangements:
Here are a few covers of our 2014 AfrIndIcho album.
The following are covers of this track; this time Suno let me upload the whole 8 minutes, so it had more material to use in the arranement; again ordered in ascending “weirdness”:
And here is a cover of our ubaba song from the said album. The style is inspired by Africa, like the original, and puts you in a good mood:
Here is a 5/4 time track from my 2024 recording series, where I play the whole band myself, live with no overdups. And here are two covers:
Here is a cover from our 2012 Spanish Weather album. The original song is an excerpt of a longer piece with a nice upright bass theme. And here the cover:
I keep hearing and reading from people who deny that AI-generated music has any “human quality” or emotions, expecting some kind of robotic, cold output without soul. This not only completely contradicts my own experience as a composer, producer, and practicing musician, but also current scientific studies, 100% of whose participants were unable to distinguish between computer-generated and human-generated music in A/B comparisons. Each of the above pieces touches me deeply, and the musicality of the arrangements and solos is simply stunning.
I think Suno itself is a work of art and an enrichment for humanity.
So let’s hope that Suno can improve the technical sound quality, and, above all, not be crushed by the rich, soulless record monopolists.
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