Why We’ll Never Stop Making Music
Unique self-expression is part of our humanity.
AI Cannot Create YOUR experience of making music.
The prominent Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle affirmed that music contained an intrinsic element that was conducive to the promotion of moral or spiritual harmony and order in the soul.
What’s fascinating about Plato and Aristotle’s view is that they saw music as having actual power to shape character and soul.It wasn’t just entertainment or self-expression to them—it was formative, almost like a moral force.
That addresses the question of why we make music.
It’s where we get in touch with our divine being.
Here’s what matters now, in an age where machines can compose symphonies and generate hit songs while you sleep:
“AI will likely become better at making anything than we can, and it can already make better poetry and music and images—or at least more commercially successful ones.
But it will never replace the experience of making music, or the experience of feeling the poetry flow through you and out your fingers.”
— Aza Raskin, mathematician and physicist, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology
Think about that.
AI might flood Spotify with perfectly optimized melodies.It might write lyrics that trend on TikTok. It might even win awards.
But it will never know the rush of hitting that chord progression that finally works.
It will never feel the tremor in your chest when you sing a line that breaks something open inside you.
It will never experience the sacred act of channelling something invisible—something divine—into the physical world through sound.
That’s the difference.
Creation isn’t just about the artifact.
It’s about the alchemy that happens in the making.
The way music moves through your body.
The way it orders your soul, just as Plato and Aristotle understood thousands of years ago.
We don’t make music just to have music.
We make it to touch something eternal.
To become, for a moment, conduits of something larger than ourselves.
And no algorithm, no matter how sophisticated, will ever need that.
But we will. Always.
Here is some music that I created in Satsang – that divine space of no mind, when you’re in flow and everything happens almost effortlessly.
Musically yours,
Nandin
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