{"id":4514,"date":"2023-09-07T16:22:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2023-09-07T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:23:02","slug":"troys-music-department-seeing-ai-creep-into-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/09\/07\/troys-music-department-seeing-ai-creep-into-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"TROY&#8217;s music department seeing AI creep into classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 It\u2019s no secret that artificial intelligence, also known as AI, is taking the world by storm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s even affecting students in the Troy University music department.<br><br>Some composers use computer programs to essentially transcribe their music for them.<br><br>\u201cWhen a composer or arranger is entering music into a music printing program, depending on which program it is and how it\u2019s set up, the music can manifest in different ways,\u201d said professor of clarinet Timothy Phillips.<br><br>However, these programs can sometimes make it difficult to read the music. Though these programs can be useful for composers, they aren\u2019t foolproof.<br><br>\u201cIt kind of guesses what configuration of notes that you want,\u201d Phillips explained.<br><br>Phillips says that you can write notes in different ways, and some of the ways that these computer programs write the notes make them difficult to read and understand.<br><br>\u201cSometimes they\u2019re in awkward ways that you don\u2019t see so much as a musician,\u201d he said.<br><br>Phillips says he often sees students struggling to read music that has been transcribed by AI.<br><br>\u201cThey come in here with music that\u2019s been generated this way by the composer with good intentions, and the composer hasn\u2019t made edits, and then they come in here and they\u2019re struggling to play it because it doesn\u2019t look like most of the music that we\u2019re traditionally used to looking at,\u201d he said.<br><br>Phillips says composers should be going back and making edits to music that is generated in this way, so that it is easier for musicians to understand.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 It\u2019s no secret that artificial intelligence, also known as AI, is taking the world by storm. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s even affecting students in the Troy University music department.<\/p>\n<p>Some composers use computer programs to essentially transcribe their music for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a composer or arranger is entering music into a music printing program, depending&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/09\/07\/troys-music-department-seeing-ai-creep-into-classrooms\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":4520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[554],"topics":[5,17],"class_list":["post-4514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-school-of-music","topics-college-of-communication-and-fine-arts","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}