Within minutes, AI creates everything from emotional piano pieces to magnificent orchestral music. The important thing is that AI music is no longer awkward. Rather, it is quite natural. I think this change is not simply a matter of the composer disappearing. Rather, the bigger change is that the standards for composition themselves are changing. In the past, making music itself was a specialized field. In college, I had to learn music theory and harmony and study structure. But now, even without going through that process, you can quickly create decent music with the help of AI.
 

# The flow of music is becoming increasingly similar

I had a strange feeling while listening to several songs composed by a student some time ago. The genres were different and the instruments used were also different. However, as I continued listening, I got the feeling that the songs were moving in a strangely similar direction. The flow of raising emotions and the way of creating an atmosphere were strangely similar. It was definitely a well-made song. But surprisingly, after listening, not a single song remained for long. I think this is connected to a more fundamental problem in the AI ​​era. The point is that people are increasingly beginning to accept structures that already sound persuasive, rather than making choices based on their own judgment. In the past, there was a time when composers would confront themselves about why certain harmonies were awkward or why certain flows were uncomfortable. But now, you don't have to worry about that for a long time, and you get pretty complete results quickly. So you gradually stop doubting your own choices. I believe that what will be standardized first in the future AI era will be the ‘direction of musical judgment’ rather than ‘skill’. Your skills can actually get better. It can be made faster and produce more refined results. But the problem is that everyone begins to organize their emotions in increasingly similar ways and choose music in similar directions.
 

#. How AI creates emotion

AI does not compose music by actually feeling emotions. Instead, it learns the flow and response patterns of music that people have found moving in the past. We analyze which harmonic progressions heighten emotions and which flow people are immersed in, and then recombine them in the most natural way. So AI is very good at creating music that is familiar and reliably persuasive. Of course, this does not mean that we deny the value of AI music. Rather, in areas where mood and emotion must be conveyed in a short period of time, such as advertising music or video music,AI can be a very powerful tool. The ability to quickly create an atmosphere that anyone can easily like is also one of the areas that AI excels at.
 

#. Why human composition will remain

But I think that's where the role of human composition becomes clearer. As AI quickly creates already effective emotional structures, human composition will be asked to do more than simply create ‘good-sounding music’. If you think about it, important composers in history were not people who created music that was easily consumed from the beginning. Beethoven's later works were perceived as unfamiliar and difficult to understand music by people at the time, and Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' also caused confusion and shock when it was first performed. It remains a great work now, but at first it was music that shook our existing senses. One of the important roles of art is not simply to provide repeated feelings that we already like. It also helps humans gradually accept sounds and flows that previously sounded unfamiliar and awkward with a new sense. Of course, new sensations must ultimately be connected to human emotions. However, art sometimes expands people's senses little by little in directions they are not yet familiar with. And ironically, as time passes, humans eventually become accustomed to that unfamiliar sensation. Art history was also a repetition of that process.
 

#. Future music education and composers

So, music education will inevitably change in the future. Rather than simply the ability to quickly create a high-quality song, you will focus more on developing a musical perspective that can explain why you chose this sound, and the ability to question the music with your own judgment rather than following a flow that already sounds familiar. As technology standardizes perfection, in the future, only those who are able to think about what to leave in their music until the end, rather than those who are simply good at making music, may remain as true human composers.