Aussie composer Mick Gordon is very regarded for his experimental method to musical composition. For 2013’s Killer Intuition he employed a kangling, a Tibetan instrument historically carved right into a human femur or tibia, to construct a theme for the skeletal Spinal character out of precise bones. For 2016’s Doom he famously sampled actual chainsaw noises to drag off the distinctive guitar riffs that elevated the sport’s soundtrack right into a heavy metallic masterpiece. Nevertheless, when requested if he is thought-about incorporating any type of generative AI into his artistic course of, Gordon would not mince his phrases. To paraphrase the late Meatloaf, Gordon will do something to create a fantastic soundtrack, however he will not do that.
“F##ok AI,” stated Gordon, throughout an interview with IGN at PAX Australia 2026.
Gordon can subsequent be heard in Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 when it is launched on October 14, since he is contributed one other bone-shattering banger to attain the first-person shooter’s last boss battle (which you may get a style of within the trailer under). He is additionally nonetheless arduous at work on the soundtrack to Defect, the cyberpunk-themed squad-shooter that is being developed by a crew composed of veterans of the Doom and Name of Obligation video games. Followers can relaxation assured that in each cases, Gordon’s music is coming straight from the metal-loving maestro’s thoughts (and fingers) fairly than the results of a ChatGPT immediate.
“Generative AI is at all times going to be behind the place people are as a result of it may be inherently educated off stuff that people have already created,” defined Gordon. “It creates a big database of what [it’s] been educated on, after which it attracts a really logical conclusion on no matter that dataset is. It is at all times going to be restricted by its dataset, although. It is by no means going to be in a state the place it may predict the subsequent factor, the brand new factor, no matter people can give you. It is at all times going to be behind simply by the character of the way in which that these items work.”
Gordon stays optimistic that audiences are at all times going to be drawn to the work of different people, fairly than machines.
“People are at all times going to wish to work together with different people. At all times,” stated Gordon. “And I really feel this AI stuff is simply giving folks extra purpose to desert this digital an infection that now we have with our lives now.”
“I really feel that people are at all times going to chase that human connection.”
UK-based followers of Gordon’s work will be capable to make a human reference to the person himself when he takes the stage as the headline act at 2027’s RADAR festival, the place he’s set to carry out music from his Doom and Doom Everlasting soundtracks reside with a full band for the very first time.
Tristan Ogilvie is a senior video editor at IGN based mostly in Sydney, Australia. He has 25 years of expertise protecting video video games, having served as Deputy Editor on Official PlayStation 2 Journal Australia and as Editor of Official Xbox 360 Journal Australia, earlier than becoming a member of IGN in 2009. Yow will discover him on Bluesky @tristanogilvie.bsky.social