When Suno covers my song (very useful) – a study with variations

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In Suno Veritas Posted by me on 8.5.2025 in Recordings | Off on In Suno Veritas And now for something completely different. Meanwhile Suno happened, and I’m totally blown away by it! Computer-generated music has fascinated me since my youth. I even wrote my master thesis at ETH Zurich on AI and music. But Suno is in a completely different league to all previous attempts (and there have been many). So it’s high time I played around with it. This technology definitely has a high addiction potential! In this post, I explore Suno’s ability to create covers of existing songs – my songs, of course. As before, the songs are available under Creative Commons by-nc-sa. Since algorithmically generated works are not copyrightable in almost all countries, I am taking the liberty of making the covers generated by Suno available here as well. Generating from direct live recording Let’s start with the original track which I composed and recorded in last November (all instruments are played live by me simultaneously, without overdups): 2024-11-25/1 (from this album). And here the first cover generated by Suno; as style I entered “prog jazz rock”; the result is pretty close to the original – just incredible how this algorithm works – like magic: 2024-11-25/1 Jazz Rock For the second attempt I was more currageous and added a brass section with a sax solo, still in jazz rock style: 2024-11-25/1 Jazz Rock Brass Section. The result is just great and very groovy, even with a jazz guitar solo in the middle, and I like how the theme kicks in at the end. And since my wive is very fond of the various house tracks she found on Suno, here a version in a combined jazz rock house style, still with brass, and some electronics in the middle: 2024-11-25/1 Jazz Rock House Funk. No one can keep still with this groove. Unfortunately the track just ends abruptly. And last but not least, a rap version with lyrics about computers and music, put together for me by Perplexity; it has different parts and br...