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A hermeneutic inquiry into musical meaning in AI generated music: a case study of suno AI’s text to music system Ratnasari, Novia; Wibawa, Aji Prasetya; Patmanthara, Syaad
Gelar: Jurnal Seni Budaya Vol. 23 No. 2 (2025)
Publisher : Institut Seni Indonesia Surakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33153/glr.v23i2.7763

Abstract

This study investigates how generative artificial intelligence participates in the creation and interpretation of musical meaning, focusing on Suno AI’s text to music system as a concrete case. The research addresses the problem of how machine generated sound can be understood hermeneutically specifically, how linguistic prompts, probabilistic modeling, and audio generation processes shape meaning, emotion, and musical intention. The objective of the study is to examine the extent to which generative AI functions as an epistemic partner rather than a passive tool, and to identify how its outputs align with or diverge from human interpretive expectations. Using a digital epistemological hermeneutic framework operationalized through prompt-based observation, semantic interpretation, and comparative listening analysis the study conducted a series of controlled experiments varying genre, instrument, mood, and tempo. For each generated output, the analysis evaluated changes in expressive quality, emotional valence, stylistic coherence, and prompt response fidelity. These evaluation criteria allow the hermeneutic framework to be applied systematically, rather than conceptually. The findings show that generative AI constructs musical meaning through inference and representational mapping, producing sonic forms that partially reflect the semantic cues encoded in linguistic prompts. While the system does not demonstrate human like intentionality, its probabilistic structures generate patterns that resonate with human affective and interpretive frameworks, revealing a co creative space where human prompts and machine inference jointly shape musical expression. These results contribute to music and AI studies by demonstrating how hermeneutics can serve as a methodological lens for understanding AI mediated creativity, and by highlighting the implications of prompt design, model transparency, and human machine interpretation for future research in computational musicology and creative AI systems.