OI Music/HI Music: Music created by Organic-Human Intelligence; The Antithesis of AI Music. A Definition by Buck Curran

OI Music and it's subdivision HI Music is music created by Organic-Animal Intelligence (OI) and/or Human Intelligence (HI). The terms were specifically created to describe and refer to music produced by animals: humans, birds, whales, insects, etc. OI and HI Music includes all musical sounds generated by humans (live or recorded) using handmade or factory made instruments: guitars, banjos, violins, flutes, trumpets, saxaphone, bones, sticks, drums, etc; or musical sound generated by body parts: singing, hand clapping, foot stomping, etc - including musical sounds generated by the body parts of animals (mammals and insects): monkeys, birds, whales, dolphins, elephants, crickets, cicadas, bees, etc. The terms OI Music and HI Music were coined by American musician, artist, writer Buck Curran on 3 December 2025 at 07:57 to differentiate between music made by Human Intelligence or Animal Intelligence and music generated by Artifical Intelligence (AI) or humans using AI to make music. OI and HI Music is the antithesis of AI Music and distinguishs all music produced, composed/written, performed, transcribed, and recorded by Human or Animal Intelligence (Organic Intelligence) from music generated by Articifical Intelligence (AI). Suno is a leading example of a private company using their online platform (Suno.com) to create tools for consumers and artists enabling the proliferation of Generative AI Music. Suno has been accused of stealing recordings and copyrighted music to train their AI model and was taken to court by Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Universal Music Group in June 2024 over copyright infringement. Other prominent AI companies include OpenAI and Udio. In 2025 the German rights organisation GEMA won a Legal case against OpenAI, which was found guilty of unlawful use of copyright-protected lyrics. A regional court in Munich, Germany found that the US tech firm had illegally reproduced protected lyrics from German songwriters without license or payment. The ruling confirms that OpenAI used GEMA’s repertoire without permission. Profound Examples of OI or HI Music include: J.S. Bach, Amadeus Mozart, Beethoven, Claude Debussy, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Blind Willie Johnson (the 1927 recording of his song 'Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground' was included on the Golden Record (a collection of music, songs, and images meant to show the diversity of Life on Earth) and placed aboard the NASA probes Voyager 1 and 2 and sent into space into 1977), Elizabeth Cotten, Hank Williams, Fred Cockerham, Camarón de la Isla, Paco Delucia, Django Reinhardt, Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté, Yma Sumac, Mercedes Sosa, Munir Bashir, Selda Bağcan, Jimi Hendrix, Robbie Basho, John Fahey, etc. Contemporary examples of AI Music include The Velvet Sundown, Breaking Rust, Axania Monet. Youtuber and musical expert Rick Beato has produced many videos related to analyzing and criticizing AI Music. The primary purpose of this article with titles and definition of OI and HI Music is to celebrate and defend human artistry (composers and musicians) and to combat (criticize and hold accountable) AI Tech Companies and the proliferation of AI Music which compromises and endangers the livelihoods of performing and recording artists, musicians, composers, sound engineers, mixing and mastering engineers, music promoters and managers, instrument manufacturers, etc. - Buck Curran, 3 December 2025