Virtual musicians

[Robert Brown (RLBrown)]

Hello SVMUG members and friends,

The virtual music scene is rapidly expanding. Several fully or partially synthetic music projects have achieved massive viral success.

I have watched many of the Aeysa videos. These are quite good, and I would like to hear a trained musician's critique. One notable flaw: in one video, her arm and neck tattoos vary from frame to frame. But many videos are hard to detect as being AI.

Aeysa: "Nordic voice, old Norse spirit." Aeysa released her debut single "Valkyrja" in August 2026, followed by tracks like "Ek Geng Fram" and "Undir húð". While her music is distributed across major streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music to mimic a traditional human artist, her entire visual identity, presence, and vocal tracks are the product of generative AI technologies.

IngaRose: An AI-generated R&B, soul, and pop vocalist. Her viral track "Celebrate Me" shocked the music industry by climbing to the Number 1 spot on global streaming charts.

Masters of Prophecy: A massive synth-rock project created by James Baker. It holds the record for the highest social media presence among AI acts, exploding to over 36 million followers across platforms. It combines Suno-generated vocals with hours of human production work.

Thong Viet (Synthetic Blues Persona): A vintage-style blues project that functions algorithmically as an independent artist. It has quietly amassed over 95 million Spotify streams, making it one of the highest-earning standalone AI music personas.

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[Charles Gousha]

I checked on the synthetic blues music, produced by Thong Viet and presented as “Enlly Blue”.  20 albums in one shot — that’s a bit much!

I find the songs to be very well constructed, with some expressive guitar playing and a decent voice put to it. The lyrics and tone are solidly in the Chicago slow blues category. The quality easily matches that of a number of lesser blues artists.

However, the songs all fit to a particular narrow style. There’s no variation from one song to the next, to the next. You could play through six albums of this stuff and believe that it was all just one continuous song. Great, I suppose, if you’re wanting to revel in that particular style, or as good long-play background music, but it really doesn’t offer anything worth paying attention to. Fire it up and go do your other work.

Having things like this available may actually be useful for scratching a particular itch in moods, but it will make it harder to find those real artists out there trying to actually express something in their music.

Charles Gousha   leader - Silicon Valley Mac User Group

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