- A new concert tour fueled by AI isolates the original voice of Whitney Houston and associates them with a live orchestra
- The technology used to rebuild its voice establishes a new bar for posthumous shows
- Perfected artistic talent can reshape what the public expects live performance
Thirteen years after the death of Whitney Houston, his voice is back on stage thanks to AI. “The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration” launches a national tour featuring the voice of isolated Houston with the help of the AI and occurred alongside a live orchestra. It is supposed to be a sincere tribute timed on the 40th anniversary of its beginnings.
This show is different from other attempts to resuscitate artists with technology, because it would have been impossible before the recent advances of AI. Lots of Houston’s original multirack recordings are lost, so recreating them with any loyalty is more delicate than making a simple Houston hologram.
AI Music Production Company Moises, specialized in the separation of the stems, peeling the voices of the entirely mixed audio tracks. Using AI models formed to isolate audio, Moises has extracted Houston’s voice from mixed tracks. The concert combines Whitney’s voice with live orchestration and organized images.
“We knew that it had to be done well,” said Pat Houston, executor of the succession of Whitney E. Houston, in a statement. “Moises and our partner Park Avenue Artists have raised the idea with the heart, the care and the creative excellence that Whitney always embodies. The result is something really special: a gift for longtime fans and a powerful introduction for a new generation discovering his voice.”
Authenticity of AI
This is the world in which we are now on tiptoe. The new Houston show tours until November, stopping in the cities of Waukegan in Palm Desert. Production promises favorites as Superior love,, I have nothingAnd I will Always Love You, Reintroduced with a level of clarity that only modern AI can provide.
“We had to isolate Whitney’s voice from fully mixed recordings without compromising the emotional power of his performance,” said the CEO of months, Geraldo Ramos, in a statement. “A concert like this would simply not have been possible five years ago, before the STEM separation technology reached the precision and loyalty that we are now able to deliver.”
Of course, Whitney is not the first posthumous star to tour, and it is not even the first tour since his death. Its hologram took the road in 2020. But the new one stands out to be audio-premier and without visual clumsiness that holograms have still not completely won over.
It can be among the more respectful IA performances based on full -fed approval in the domain. Unlike some AI musical projects where dead artists are forced to “collaborate” on songs that they did not know existing, this show sticks to the real Whitney catalog. He simply represents it, cleaned and re-orchestrated, in a way that his original recordings could never be.
However, it is difficult not to think of the next steps. If the separation of the stems is also good, what prevents the catalog of each classic artist from renovating? Will we see duets with inherited voices trenched and served on new tracks? 2030 will he bring on the road “Frank Sinatra sings Sza”?
