Get ready for an AI country music explosion
TL;DR
Songwriters in Nashville are experimenting with AI to create demos, potentially revolutionizing the competitive country music industry by improving efficiency and increasing the chances of hits.
When songwriter Patrick Irwin moved to Nashville last year, he was entering a lottery. Each day hundreds of sessions take place where writers create a song demo to pitch to a publisher. Publishers then share those songs with labels and managers, who may share those songs with the artists. Even if a major country star records ("cuts") the song, it still takes a stroke of luck for that song to become a No. 1 hit.
The odds of winning are extremely low. Recently, Irwin was in a room where his cowriters Sam Fink and Duane Deerweater tried something new. Instead of booking studio time or calling a "track guy" to produce a demo, one cowriter open …