Pop stars like Chris Martin and Gary Barlow have set up intimate jamming periods whilst Radiohead is streaming one of its live shows for free each and every week till lockdown ends.
The song has now not stopped however it is a little bit tougher to make it.
The relaxation of the populace can also be turning to video conferencing apps, such as Zoom, Skype and Google Hangouts, however these do now not pretty work for music.
"They overly compress tune and the ensuing sound is pretty horrible," says Paul Reynolds, whose company MassiveMusic makes soundtracks for adverts.
But song software program blended with first rate net capability the domestic studio can be as exact as a expert one, he says.
"Long long gone are the days when you wished a £500,000 funding to set up a recording studio.
"So a lot can be accomplished with a very primary and surprisingly less costly set-up.
"The velocity of facts switch has been the largest trouble in stay collaboration and performance. As the bandwidth improves, greater pleasant audio can be transferred at a lots quicker rate, which means much less troubles with latency."
While the manufacturers he works for are greater used to flying to distinguished places to make their ads, now they have to matter on the track to inform the story.
"Music and sound can take you to a seashore in the South Americas, to the Alps, to a birthday celebration in New Delhi or a small tranquil domestic in Yorkshire," stated Mr Reynolds.
He acknowledges there desires to be an factor of "make do and mend" about the way the musicians work.
"If one musician does not very own a bass guitar, he or she can name a colleague who does. They can ship every different tracks and samples, lay down parts, any one else can create a beat and every other character can sing."
Rotterdam's Philharmonic Orchestra has spoke back to lockdown with a sequence of digital concerts.
The first of these - a overall performance of Beethoven's ninth Symphony - appears and sounds artlessly easy however in truth took "many, many hours of video editing",.
The musicians recorded their phase of the piece with their personal telephones or webcams and then the recordings have been merged the usage of superior video software.
Arjen Leendertz, who performs double bass, stated the piece "stands for connection, fraternisation and togetherness".
"For me, this is without a doubt what we want to focal point on collectively now," he said.
Such intimate live shows may want to carry in new fans, thinks Mr Reynolds.
"Imagine being at domestic gaining knowledge of grade one cello, and abruptly you can watch a cellist operate in the front of you, like being in the orchestra in a way you have by no means been capable to before."
And there are lots of different tools, such as NinJam, which enable musicians to proceed enjoying collectively and synchronising the results.
Machine music
For hardcore Eurovision followers the cancellation of the contest, which sees nations attempting to keep away from scoring "nul points", will be a bitter blow.Dutch public broadcaster VPRO had already come up with the notion of the usage of synthetic talent to assist create the subsequent hit for the Netherlands and now the opposition has been thrown open to others.
Some thirteen groups from Europe and Australia are competing, every given the mission of developing a three-minute pop tune with the assist of AI.
The Australian group - referred to as Uncanny Valley - has already come up with its song: Beautiful the World.
It used a computer gaining knowledge of system known as DDSP (differentiable digital sign processing) to combination audio samples of animals inclusive of koalas, kookaburras and Tasmanian devils.
The result, which can be heard on YouTube, is a closely synthesized music which harks again to drug-fuelled song creations of the 1960s. And the noticeably random lyrics sound like ones solely an AI software ought to have produced.
Created in affiliation with Google's lab in Sydney, the music is a collaboration between tune producers, statistics scientists and teachers and is stimulated by way of the bushfires that swept thru the country.
"It is deeply fascinating to watch an algorithm find out patterns that underlie music," the group wrote.
Meanwhile, the French group Algomus is assured the informal listener "won't be aware that the track used to be created with AI".
The five-member team, made up of song college students from universities in Lille and Amiens, desired to hold co-operation between people and AI.
"Creativity requires a cautious stability between all the factors in order to evoke an emotion," the crew wrote.
For the lyrics, it selected the most frequent phrase pairs in previous Eurovision songs, such as "my heart" and "the sun" and used these as the foundation for the AI to create the lyrics. The group described the consequences as a "good stability between grammatically right sentences and room for poetic interpretation".
It opted for the lyrics to be sung through a actual character blended with AI.
Public balloting is open till 10 May and the winner will be introduced two days later.
For each installed artists and these tinkering with music, lockdown should create a new style of track based on a extra "pared down, selfmade sound", thinks Mr Reynolds.
Although now not anybody has been discovering the modern-day situations fertile floor for creativity, with Noel Gallagher currently telling the RadioX podcast that he was once bored of writing songs whilst caught at home.
And for much less profitable musicians, lockdown is now not simply boring however additionally having a devastating influence of their finances.
At a digital assembly with Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, MPs on the DCMS committee entreated him to seem to be once more at the cash reachable to musicians from streaming - the solely earnings for many on lockdown.
It would, stated one MP, take greater than 7,000 songs streamed to earn a musician simply one hour's really worth of pay on the minimal wage.
Charity singles created in lockdown are topping the charts, with each NHS fundraiser Captain Tom Moore 1's Live Lounge single for Children in Need and Comic Relief, using high.
It proves that, even in the most making an attempt of circumstances, the song will play on.
