Doom 2016 Composer Mick Gordon Says “F##okay AI”

Aussie composer Mick Gordon is extremely regarded for his experimental strategy 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 tug off the distinctive guitar riffs that elevated the sport’s soundtrack right into a heavy metallic masterpiece. Nevertheless, when requested if he is thought of incorporating any type of generative AI into his inventive course of, Gordon does not mince his phrases. To paraphrase the late Meatloaf, Gordon will do something to create an ideal soundtrack, however he will not do this.

“F##okay 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 remaining boss battle (which you may get a style of within the trailer beneath). He is additionally nonetheless laborious 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 Responsibility 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) relatively 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’ll 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’ll predict the subsequent factor, the brand new factor, no matter people can provide you with. 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, relatively than machines.

“People are at all times going to need to work together with different people. All the time,” stated Gordon. “And I really feel this AI stuff is simply giving folks extra motive to desert this digital an infection that we’ve got 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 have the ability to make a human reference to the person himself when he takes the stage because the headline act at 2027’s RADAR competition, the place he’s set to carry out music from his Doom and Doom Everlasting soundtracks dwell with a full band for the very first time.