I'm excited to watch this! I've been loving watching Geebz' content on Twitch and KZfaq for the past couple years, so this interview should be great. He has such great insight into music and life, and his positive energy is always so welcome. Really fun seeing him learn about video games along the way.

Loved this discussion! I can relate to a lot of the viewpoints discussed regarding AI and music licensing in general.

Another great video Paul, thank you! Keep the good stuff coming! Best, Andy

Thanks for the amazing insights into Geebz's life! I was hoping he'd mention adopting AI technology, similar to how his father embraced new tech, but he never did! I totally relate to what you mentioned at 1:02:29. That's precisely what new AI technologies are addressing! They transform your musical ideas into content with incredible speed and quality. Today, AI might seem like a threat, but tomorrow, it'll be an integral part of every composer/artist's creative toolkit. Today, we are just prompting with words, but tomorrow we'll prompt with chords, melody, and voice to shape your track exactly as you envision, directly inside your DAW. With deeper musical knowledge, you'll gain even greater creative control over the output. So, let's embrace AI and learn to use it rather than fearing it. Btw, we can already extract stems from AI-generated music using tools like SpectraLayers 😉

This was a fantastic conversation, with many well-informed, coherent points that I hope reach as many ears as possible. I'm no musician or composer, but I am a visual artist, and a working one for over 30 years. The conversation surrounding generative AI artwork has been very similar to the one you're having about AI music tools being on the rise. There is too much vitriol and misinformation being spread by people refusing to do the research, unwilling to accept the benefits that various forms of AI provide to the artistic community. Obviously, the random internet image scraping without compensation to artists or the choice to be used in AI training needs to stop. And it will, eventually...already being worked on, as we speak...because this tech is in a fledgeling state and things are advancing quickly. People are too focused on the tech, itself, condemning it as "soulless, lazy, etc." There is no metric for what makes anything art, much less respected art, and that includes AI. So what they should focus on are the people behind the tech, and the people using the tech. Are THEY soulless, lazy, etc? Tools aren't ruining art or music...only the people wielding them can do that. The mention of all the various synthesizers, effects modules, editing programs and the like is an exact parallel to the innovation in the visual art world, with photography, the printing press, and then digital tools like Photoshop or ProCreate. All of these are just tools of the trade, to be used at the discretion of those interested in using them. There will always be those with negative or greedy motives, using these tools for destructive or otherwise self-serving ideas. But there will also always be creatives, using those same tools to innovate and break boundaries. So hopefully people can lighten up and go with the flow a bit...because fighting progress rarely has positive outcomes. Thanks for a great podcast.

Really nice episode, it would be cool to know both of your takes on how AI generated music becomes integrated in how people consume, iE someone like brian eno - would love to hear his AI compositions, etc