Any thoughts on this AI hymn generator - https://www.psalmist.ai/? It can generate a melody for any hymn lyrics you provide. One can even create a hymnal using this app.
In the words of Pope Leo..."We live in the age of search engines that offer us thousands of instantaneous answers. Yet, no matter how powerful they may be, they merely return what already exists and tend to give us what we already want...here is an ontological difference — even before an aesthetic one — between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others."
AI is a great tool but something feels a little inappropriate with its use within the liturgical world.
I recall being told (and checking) that "Hernando's Hideaway" is a long metre tune which could be used, in place of OLD HUNDREDTH, for the classical Doxology "Praise God from Whom all blessings flow..."
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