Unraveling the AI Artist with AI: The Charm of 'MukiryokuSekkei's' Music
There is an artist I have been interested in lately.
"MukiryokuSekkei (Apathy Design)".
They are an extremely advanced "AI artist" that creates works by incorporating AI into every process.
If that is the case, wouldn't it be the most stylish approach to have an AI write this article introducing them as well? Yes, the text you are reading right now was also "designed" through a dialogue with an AI, not from within my own brain.
The musical theme they advocate is a new form of chill that is stylish yet somewhat bittersweet and comfortable: "Neo Jazz Pop". They release songs that resonate with the real emotions of modern society at an astonishing pace, gathering empathy from listeners.
They don't play instruments. A style of "designing" everything with AI
Their greatest innovation lies in the fact that they construct almost every step using AI, including lyrics, composition, arrangement, expressive human-like vocals, piano melodies that sound like professional improvisations, and even the music video visuals. The creators themselves do not hold instruments; they simply wave a baton called a prompt.
However, this is by no means "cold music left to AI." It is not a simple deepfake imitating someone's specific voice, but rather a custom-made "ideal fictional singing voice just for that song" created from scratch via prompts. The same goes for the lyrics. Humans present a clear concept—such as the psychology of modern people (SNS fatigue, the sense of liberation on the way home from work, etc.)—and polish the words while borrowing the AI's overwhelming instantaneous power. In other words, they are not selling their souls to AI, but rather mastering AI as a convenient right-hand man.
Let me introduce a few works that symbolize their worldview.
[MV] Fake Monday Smile: While depicting the melancholy of Monday morning, a somewhat surreal visual world unfolds.
[MV] Neutral: A song that carries a heart wavering between the gaps of daily life on stylish visuals and sound.
[LyricMV] Rhythm of Rest: Beautiful lyric typography and chill chord progressions heal the ears.
A modern "collage" and "remix"
This production style can be said to be closer to a "collage" that creates new value by combining existing elements, or the "sampling" of hip-hop, rather than traditional composition.
From the countless materials (fragments of sound and lyric candidates) that the AI spits out, they select the most comfortable and emotional takes with human sensibility and arrange them like a puzzle. This is why they discard the artist's privileged ego of "sounds created from scratch by myself" and define themselves not as "composers" but as "designers".
The multiplication of "human production power" and "AI's overwhelming generative power." The sound that MukiryokuSekkei rings out is truly a new form of pop art at the cutting edge of history where technology and human emotion fuse.