The Human Frequency — Notes on making music by hand in the age of AI By Roger Ricks Last time I told you there was one sound in my music that could never come from a machine, something that is technically a flaw, and I promised I would show you exactly where it lives. This is me keeping that promise. My new single, "That Day," is out now, and honestly it is full of those flaws. Every single one of them is there on purpose, and I want to tell you why. The moment behind the son

The Human Frequency — Notes on making music by hand in the age of AI By Roger Ricks I want to start with a number that honestly unsettled me a little. In a survey of around nine thousand people across eight countries, ninety-seven percent of them could not reliably tell fully AI-generated music from human-made music in a blind test. Ninety-seven percent. So if you were quietly counting on your own ears to keep you safe, well, I was too, and that number put me right back in my

Where AI came from, what it's changing, and why I still play every note Let me be honest with you before I say anything critical: what these AI tools can do now is genuinely impressive. I build my own guitars in a workshop in Zurich, I play and sing and produce almost everything myself, and even I sat there the first time thinking, "okay, that's remarkable." So this isn't going to be a rant. AI is going to change how music gets made, whether I like it or not. What I want to d