Inaugural AI Song Contest winners Uncanny Valley transforms the future of music-making
Uncanny Valley, winners of the inaugural AI Song Contest 2020, have joined forces with this year’s competition organisers to create a constantly evolving remix of the 2021 contest entries. This year’s teams submitted a selection of melodies, vocals, beats and other song components to Uncanny Valley’s cutting edge AI music engine to create a collaborative remix.
Since winning the contest last year, the Australian company has focussed its efforts on developing the technology behind their AI engine ‘MEMU’.
Says Charlton Hill, co-founder, Uncanny Valley: “It is an intuitive and adaptive musical engine, which generates musical ideas for use in DJing, music production, songwriting, streaming, gaming and more. The applications for MEMU are as endless as the human need for music.”
MEMU currently plays 24/7. Each week it generates 33,600 minutes of uniquely composed music per channel, making the generation process even faster than real-time. With the capacity to create infinite channels, the amount of music able to be generated is endless.
With its infinitely evolving ability to be customised and scaled, MEMU has even wider and more groundbreaking implications on the future of music-making. It has an evolving ability to be customised and scaled. Contributions are fully trackable, making it possible to harness emotional data and new revenue streams for artists.
The creators of MEMU are currently in talks with major labels to create channels for top artists. This will allow them to generate new creative ideas from their existing music and seamlessly blend these with other artists’ music in fresh new collaborations. These can then be distributed via streaming services and used in social media campaigns.
The music generated by MEMU is able to be intuitively adapted based on variables such as GPS location, time of day, weather and even biometrics such as heart rate and emotions.
The future of MEMU is bright, with plans for it to become a collaborative artist engine for a new generation of music makers.
Says Hill: “We want to democratise music creation and put the power of creativity in the hands of listeners. Everyone should be able to express themselves, collaborate on music and earn revenue streams while doing so.”
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oh please.
Sorry, but this is sounding a tad desperate, especially the notion of ‘democratising’ music. Nothing democratic about AI from a commercial perspective. Silly and meaningless banter.
people with non musical backgrounds can get it on this. That’s democratising!
Sad. The whole purpose of music is the human connection it creates between the artist and the audience. This might ‘work’ but it’s an inherent failure.
That is the whole purpose of music? On the back of a… I want a track that evokes the feeling of “Insert artist here” and I have the budget of a pub lunch… this seems relevant to probably 99.9% of music used in all media communications
Sorry. I didn’t mean to denigrate the purpose behind your business. I just don’t like seeing art and artists being replaced by technology. It kind of misses the point for me.
It reads as a collaborative tool for artists. The rest of the world is embracing new ways. Personally l like tech that assists and offers new and interesting opportunities for all.