How do I use AI in my music?

AI Can’t Feel — But It Can Reflect

Lately, I’ve been using AI in my music — not to write songs, but to create visuals around them.

And every time I do, I notice the same thing:

AI doesn’t feel anything.
But it reflects what we feel, almost like a mirror we didn’t know we had.

When I generate visuals for a song, I’m not asking AI to create meaning.
I’m asking it to respond to mine.

For example, in the visual album ‘‘İçi Kafamın’’ (2023), we designed the transitions between songs using AI-generated videos:

It wasn’t about letting AI decide the story,
it was about extending the emotional continuity between songs.

In another project, the artwork of ‘‘KAPSÜL’’ (2023) was created with AI by Dilara Başköylü.
Listen KAPSÜL.

And for the visuals at ‘‘Hazine’’ (2025), the original photos were shot by Elif Tekneci,
but I transformed them into videos using AI:

In all of these, the core feeling started as something human —
a sound, a lyric, a moment.

AI came later.

The emotions are still human — messy, layered, sometimes unresolved.
AI just translates them into a different language: images, textures, movement.

There’s something strange about seeing your inner world interpreted by something that has never lived, never loved, never lost.

And yet… sometimes it understands the atmosphere better than expected.

Not because it feels, but because it has seen everything we’ve ever tried to express.

For me, AI is not a songwriter.
It’s not a replacement for human creativity.

It’s a tool.
A visual instrument.

Like a synth, in a way; you still need intention, taste, and emotion to make something meaningful.

What matters is not whether we use AI.
But how and why we use it.

Right now, I use it to expand the emotional world of my songs — not to replace it.

And I’m still figuring out where that line is.

How do you feel about AI in music — as a listener or a creator? Write me in the comments!

Bîdar

(Bee-dar, for those reading me for the first time)