Opera Third Bullet by Vojislav Vučković, or how would ChatGPT do on the Musicology Exam?

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https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2023.6.10.53

Keywords:

artificial intelligence (AI) , ChatGPT, bot, musicology, history of music, Serbian music

Abstract

This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the opera Third Bullet, composed by Vojislav Vučković. The opera and its composer, and all other data related to them, were generated by the text-based ChatGPT. Although the composer Vojislav Vučković is a person who actually existed, the one in focus here is fictional, or perhaps better yet, a synthesized figure, created somewhat like modern-day Pinocchio, “just like a real boy”. The main goal of the paper is to determine if this artificial historic figure is a relevant topic for musicological analysis, and what can we conclude from dealing with works that don’t really exist. My idea was to question the possibilities for the implementation of text-based AIs in musicological work and to raise awareness of this kind of synthetic history of music that is available to us.

Author Biography

  • Milan Milojković, Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Milan Milojković (Zaječar, 1986) studied musicology at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where he obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees, and defended his PhD thesis. He is regularly publishes papers in domestic and international professional publications. He published a study titled “Sempre con tutta forza”, and books “Analysis of the Language of Writings About Music (Serbia in Yugoslavia 1946-1975)” and “Digital technology in Serbian artistic musical output”. He is working as an associate professor at the Department for Musicology and Ethnomusicology of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, and as a guest lecturer at Academy of Arts in Banja Luka (BiH), as well as one of the music editors at Third Program Radio Belgrade.

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15.07.2023

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No. 10 (2023): Technological Aspects of Contemporary Artistic and Scientific Research I

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Opera Third Bullet by Vojislav Vučković, or how would ChatGPT do on the Musicology Exam?. (2023). INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology, 10, 53-70. https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2023.6.10.53
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