Paul McCartney and producer Giles Martin used artificial intelligence to isolate John Lennon's vocals from an old demo to finally complete The Beatles' 'last' song, 'Now And Then.'
. The record has a long history, which includes a demo recorded by Lennon in the late '70s in his residence at The Dakota in New York.explains, a big part of why"Now And Then" has been in production limbo for so long is due to the poor quality of the cassette tape.."That's part of this technology — we could now extract John from the piano and from the television.""Essentially, what the machine learning does is it recognizes someone's voice.
Martin says he's well aware of the skepticism expressed by Beatles purists, as well as the ethical questions raised by the use of AI in music. He says its use in this case brings out a new vibrancy to the band's recordings. "It was important to me that the changes we made were authentic ... Paul said, you know, we need to follow George's rhythm. It was really interesting how he worked. It was like, we need to concentrate on The Beatles and what they're doing, like they're in the room," Martin said."That was the magic of it. It comes from heart and from the right place and desire to collaborate with John, even though he can't.
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