I’ve generally been avoiding these new generative AI music platforms for obvious reasons, as a composer and maker of music. But a YouTube video caught my eye, and I found myself messing around with Suno, just out of curiosity.

I must say: I’m gobsmacked.

My composition Original Recording - Anima Silvae

And the AI remix : prompt - ‘Minimalist Classical Ambient’ -

Its totally frazzled my brain - its actually kind of a thrill (in the rollercoaster sense)

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I dropped in one of my solo piano pieces and is it to '“Make a contemporary classical piece based on this.”

What came back was honestly amazing. It completely carried the DNA of what I was trying to do musically. I didn’t tweak anything just let it run and the result stopped me in my tracks. It captured the spirit of the original and extended it in a way that felt musical, expressive, and somehow in sync with my intent.

It’s not all perfect some of it slides into the generic or derivative but there are moments that really shine. And even just as a way to spark new ideas, it’s incredibly exciting.

I’ve tried it on more song-based material too, and that was more or less what I expected. It’s good at pop production. We’re already seeing Spotify fill up with AI-generated tracks that sound decent to most people clean mixes, catchy structure, everything polished and in its right place.

But I didn’t expect it to handle classical music like this.
That’s what really caught me off guard.

Ethical questions on licensing aside, it’s got me questioning everything how I compose, how I listen, what it even means to call something “mine.” I’m still getting my head around it.

Here’s the original solo piano piece I uploaded to Suno, and the version it remixed based on that. (there are 6 other versions with different interpretations - all spat out in seconds!!)
Have a listen.

the possibilities are off the scale - what do you think?

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