Can AI ever produce a band like Tool? Recombination vs lived experience
krishnabrodhi · reddit · 2026-11-07
A Reddit long-form exchange on whether AI threatens the birth of future bands like Tool. Key points: AI can mechanically mimic Tool's 11/8 signatures and polyrhythms, but it works by recombination, not innovation — it sees only the outputs of human experience, never the inputs (trauma, decades of practice, jam-room friction). The real risk is homogenization: when bedroom producers get instant perfect backing tracks, they lose the "happy accidents" born of human friction. History suggests a counter-cultural pendulum — just as punk and grunge rebelled against polished 80s pop, a raw human backlash to AI art is likely coming.
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