AI Makes Music Fun

InnovationAIAI Makes Music FunByJohn Werner,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an MIT Senior Fellow & Lecturer, 5x-founder & VC investing in AIFollow AuthorMay 10, 2026, 06:25pm EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.listening music gettyAI is here, and music composition will never be the same.Countless generations of musicians who created things manually would roll over in their graves at the idea of conjuring strings, piano, woodwinds, brass and percussion out of thin air, not to mention the human voice as a timeless vehicle of inspired sound. Music has been a human endeavor – until now.New tools are blowing older ones out of the water. One such catalyst is called Suno – and it is, frankly, amazing.Plug in your written lyrics. Write a quick prompt: minor or major key, rhythm, vocal techniques, and press “Create” and a fully formed song springs instantly out of the ether, with the voice of a singer who never lived. Or, don’t write your own lyrics, just tell Suno what you want the song to be about, and the lyrics will just appear, cadenced and scanned perfectly, in verse/chorus form, like the work of an impassioned genie from Tin Pan Alley.It’s almost, some would say, too easy, but it’s inspired by a real vision of a new world that works differently than what we had in the first quarter of the twenty-first century.Imagination in Action in Boston in AprilI helped to put on our annual Imagination in Action conference at MIT in April. I sat down with the creator of Suno, Michael Shulman, who said he stopped coding about a year ago because of how good AI tools are now, to talk about how this project came about.MORE FOR YOU“Some of the most fun I’ve ever had was making music with my friends,” Shulman said, detailing how an early version of the app on Discord came out of his realization of how universal music is as a human language...