Friends with Chris Martin and Stormzy and dubbed the ‘Mozart of Gen Z’… what’s next for the artist who honed his considerable gifts in his bedroom?
Jacob Collier is absolutely here for artificial intelligence. “I love that stuff!” says the multi-Grammy winning musician. “I’m a fiend for it.”
The north Londoner, 30, once dubbed the ‘Mozart of Gen Z’ by the New York Times, is sitting in a central London café in a rainbow cardigan doing something he often does, which is to get a little carried away.
He’s telling me about when he first got his hands on Dall-E, the OpenAI image generator. He played with it for hours, creating tiny glass-blown universes and organ pipe trees until he fell asleep and began to dream of tiny glass-blown universes and organ pipe trees. “It’s like saying to someone: ‘If you could see anything, what would you want to see?’ That’s such a good …