Electronic musicians return to hardware as AI threatens to replace the creative process

teropa · x · 2026-09-06

Musician @thelau argues AI in music making is fine as a tool, but not when it replaces the whole creative process. He points to the electronic scene's ongoing return to hardware and modular synths as evidence: making things is pleasurable in itself, and removing that pleasure means musicians won't come along.

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