[pas]

getting inspired by visual art is more ok than its audio counterpart. mostly because audio is lower-dimensional somehow (melodies, riffs, sampling, beats, things are either recognizable or not at all.. well, not entirely, but in practice there are seemingly not that many things in this grey area, even when bands cite inspiration, the influence is sometimes not noticeable), of course maybe it's just a yet to be explored niche.

whereas visually copying style somehow is more possible and ok

[williamcotton]

As a musician, I can tell you that I can instantly hear a chord progression in any song and find loads of prior art.

But we’re really talking about style. Think reggae, isn’t it immediately obvious what style of music you’re listening to?

[pas]

Indeed, but and to me it seems there are "fewer" styles currently in music than in visual arts. (Even though I spend a lot more time listening to music than looking at visual art, even including movies/series.)

Of course this is a super bad n=1 qualitative study with very bad response coding, but maybe this is simply because I haven't spent enough time with musical style copying LLMs (if there are any), and only spent about a minute listening to that forever death metal youtube AI channel.