The drummer thinks the results will be “fascinating” to hear.
Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason is willing to use AI to generate new songs for the band. In fact, the drummer thinks the findings will be “fascinating” to hear. Mason told The Sunday Mirror that artificial intelligence has the capacity to repair the gap left by David Gilmour’s long-standing feud with former member Roger Waters by creating new music as if the bassist had never departed.
“It would be fascinating to see what AI could do with new music,” he said. “If you tried to run it as a sort of ‘Where did Pink Floyd go after?'” “The solution would be to create an AI scenario in which David and Roger rekindle their friendship. We may be like ABBA at the end of it.” During the interview, Mason also highlighted Gilmour and Waters’ feud, expressing disappointment that it has obscured the band’s achievements and happy moments.
“In a 55-year career, most of it was great fun,” he reflects. “We were extremely fortunate to be in a successful band, tour the world, and interact with such interesting people.” It’s a gold card to meet all of your favorite athletes and actors.” Despite Mason’s openness to AI-generated music, Pink Floyd fans may not share his enthusiasm. The band had previously faced criticism for selecting an AI-generated movie as one of the winners in their Dark Side of the Moon 50th anniversary animation competition.
The move was criticised by one fan as a “spit in the face of actual artists who poured their heart and soul into each frame of work they made and submitted for this competition,” while many expressed their frustrations at how “a band with almost 60 years of history creating art” is allegedly “fucking over actual artists and rewarding this slop”.
