Admin I Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024
BERLIN – German musician and Nick Cave collaborator Blixa Bargeld does not yet see artificial intelligence (AI) as a useful tool for his work.
“I once had AI write some of my lyrics for fun,” the singer and frontman of the Berlin band Einstürzende Neubauten told dpa ahead of his 65th birthday this Friday.
“I was amazed at how stupid they were,” said Bargeld, assessing the result of the artificially generated lines of text. I didn’t use it, but I always wondered what would come out of it.”
The lyricist and composer can draw on extensive material as a basis for such experiments. For decades, he has regularly jotted down ideas, fragments and texts and transferred them to the computer. Printouts of these are then bound. According to Bargeld, the collection has now grown to 88 volumes.
Bargeld, born Christian Emmerich in West Berlin, is one of the most influential German rock musicians. He is also a performance artist, composer, author and actor.
Bargeld founded Einstürzende Neubauten in 1980, with which he combined industrial, mechanical noise and gothic rock elements.
He played guitar in Nick Cave’s band The Bad Seeds for many years. After spending several years in San Francisco and Beijing, Bargeld lives with his family in Berlin again.
