Hans Zimmer: 1; AI: 0: How a Disney director tried - and failed -to create an iconic soundtrack
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Hans Zimmer performs on stage accompanied by The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra during The Sound of 007 in concert at The Royal Albert Hall on October 04, 2022 in London, England.
Synopsis
Gareth Edwards had asked an unspecified AI music company to use the tech to create a soundtrack in the style of Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer. “The AI system generated a track that was maybe a 7 out of 10… But the reason you go to Hans Zimmer is for 10 out of 10,” he says.
By Melissa Heikkilä When Gareth Edwards, the director of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, was thinking about the soundtrack for his upcoming movie about artificial intelligence, The Creator, he decided to try composing it with AI—and got “pretty damn good” results. “The cheeky part of me thought it’d be even better if we didn’t tell anyone—and we did the soundtrack and we kept it secret, like we invented a person’s name or something, and then when
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