“I love AI but some musicians have this idea that it’s a bad thing”: Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess is a proponent of artificial intelligence in musicAI is a hotly contested topic in the world of music production and technology. While some welcome its ability to speed up their workflow, others have argued that it’s in opposition to creativity, and that legislation is lagging behind, meaning musicians are having their rights circumnavigated by exploitative tech companies.
Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess is a proponent of artificial intelligence, though, as he explains in a new interview with metal.it.

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His reasoning is primarily down to how AI is able to speed up his workflow, and mentions Moises – known for its AI track separation – as a company he works with “very closely”.
“It’s a very interesting company,” he says [via Blabbermouth]. “They’re mostly known for their work in track separation, and musicians all around the world use it. Basically the way it works is that you can upload to their system a stereo audio file or even a video, and then when it’s within their system, the system can take it apart…
“It’s like having access to all the individual tracks. It’s kind of a modern-day musician miracle, really, the way that it works. There’s some different companies that work in track separation, but Moises is pretty much the top of the game.”
He goes on: “The reason I bring them up is because I love the technology but also because all the musicians around the world that use this, some of them have this idea that AI is a bad thing, but they don’t even know that Moises is built on AI.”
Rudess says artificial intelligence, because it’s such a divisive topic, is often stigmatised by those who don’t understand it simply for what it’s referred to as.
“I believe more and more that artificial intelligence is a very bad name for this technology,” he explains. “There’s a lot of other ways to think about it. There’s nothing really artificial about it. We should go back in time, really, and change that. It’s leading people down the wrong thought process to think about what’s actually going on with the tool and how these things are put together.”
He does, however, acknowledge that the legalities of AI use in music are “really important to figure out”, and “need to be resolved in a big way”.
“There’s a lot of concern in the music business from people about their rights, how these models have been instructed or loaded in with different songs and styles, and rightly so. People, musicians are concerned. They feel like this is not fair. Maybe their music is being loaded into a computer without their permission. All these kinds of things are really, really important to figure out. [These are] all legal matters which need to be resolved in a big way. It’s gonna take time.”
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