Creativity is about the removal of inhibition, fear, social anxiety, doubt, about creating and sharing something authentically yours. While AI might help as a medium for expression for some people that did not have access to that medium before, this opening of the gates is also used by people to signify talent through things that were once authentically someone else’s, or by the insecure, to remove all trace of self from communication and creation as a crux for anxiety. Pros and cons. People are people.

Mastering is often regarded as something of a “dark art” in music production circles. You, reader, may feel that it’s confusing, opaque… something best left to “the pros.” A practice guided by a sixth sense that you don’t possess. Spoiler alert: we at Musik Hack don’t buy this. We happen to believe that now, more than ever, great sounding masters are very much within reach.

Theory follows practice, always. That idea holds true generally, I think, but in the realm of music, I’m prepared to stand behind that statement 100% - theory follows practice. The oldest surviving written music is about 3,400 years old. The oldest surviving instrument? A bone flute that’s around 40,000 years old. People have been making music for a whole lot longer than the haters have been hating or gatekeepers have been gatekeeping. We are supposed to be making music, ok? This is ancestral.