Protesting a proposed change to British copyright law that will allow AI companies to train their AI models using copyrighted creative material, a stellar group of more than 1000 composers, musicians and singers have come together to release a ‘silent’ album.

Hans Zimmer, Max Richter, The King’s Singers, Julian Lloyd Webber, Voces8 and the Kanneh-Mason siblings are among the classical sector names involved in a project boasting a wide selection of pop music A-listers including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn and Annie Lennox.

Other music figures adding their names to the project include Alexis Ffrench, Anne Dudley, Esther Abrami, John Powell, The Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

The album, titled Is This What We Want?, contains 12 silent recordings with more than 1,000 artists credited as co-writers.

Each track is symbolic of the creative silencing that will result from the use of AI to generate musical content.

The proposed changes to copyright law in the UK do include an “opt-out” clause for creatives, but critics have labelled it unworkable, and unlikely to prevent AI models from on artists’ content without permission or compensation.

In a letter published by the Guardian, Andrew Lloyd Webber and his...