Updated Forewords to the NMT Music, 2026   

When the NMT project was completed, I parted with anh Trí with an unresolved issue: How do we make this music accessible to more people than just a few lucky ones who happened to have heard it performed?

 The music is different, difficult, almost impossible to sing, and practically speaking, too expensive to produce.

April 2026 arrived. I heard a number of old Vietnamese songs on YouTube performed beautifully by fresh voices. They were performed by nameless singers, labeled “AI” somewhere on the screen.

 No matter that AI sang them, these songs in the 2022 music book can now be experienced the way they are meant to be: as might be sung by a most gifted vocalist and many a jazz band or classical orchestra, if only one is willing to accept.

The SUNO technology has proven to be quite accessible; it turns me into a music producer of sorts, a complete novice in such work.

 As detailed elsewhere on these web pages, the application of SUNO preserves the originality of NMT’s work, as every music note, every word and every sentence —   not to mention the jazzy chords richly annotated by the composer — were provided as input to the SUNO process, and it was able to render the melody and chord progression almost exactly.