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A late-night close-up portrait of a weary gamelan teacher seated beside a gleaming bronze…
★ Featured · Ai Music · 5 min read

AI Music Generation vs Human Musicians: Where the "Just Use It as a Tool" Advice Holds and Where It Snaps

A gamelan teacher in Kuala Lumpur said the sentence to me like it was a seatbelt: "AI is just a tool. Use it, keep your soul." He'd read it in a dozen op-eds.

By Theo Brandt · July 2026

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