Grammy-award-winning musician Imogen Heap has teamed up with “ethically-trained” AI music platform Jen to launch a pair of AI fashions based mostly on her music and voice.
StyleFilter is an AI device skilled, with Heap’s permission, on her new singles “What Have You Finished To Me” and “Final Night time of an Empire.” The device allows customers to use Heap’s distinctive stylings to their very own music based mostly on AI prompts, utilizing a dial to find out how a lot of her “vibe” results in the ultimate composition.
“I needed to allow the followers to return in and generate a bit of music based mostly on my piece of music,” Heap stated in an on-stage dialogue at Net Summit in Lisbon, describing the top product as “an precise working track as a service.”
Heap and Jen have additionally introduced an AI voice mannequin skilled on the musician’s personal vocals. Jen claims to have “set a brand new customary for copyright compliance in generative AI music,” with its AI fashions skilled on materials licensed from the unique artists.
Talking on stage at Net Summit, Heap stated that she initially struggled to search out “a generative music platform that was ethically sourcing permissioned musical works to generate music from,” earlier than alighting on Jen.
The AI platform makes use of blockchain as a part of its compliance mannequin. Every new monitor generates a timestamped cryptographic hash because it’s created, which is then logged on The Root Community’s blockchain, “guaranteeing the integrity and timestamp of every monitor’s creation,” the corporate stated in a press launch.
“The panorama is completely different now,” Heap stated, including that, “We now have blockchain, we now have distributed applied sciences, we now have social media, we now have large quantities of connections and discussions, and we by no means had that earlier than.” That, she argued, provides musicians a possibility to “construct this layer and to then empower ourselves to create this database of works.”
Heap is one thing of an early adopter of recent applied sciences, having beforehand developed motion-tracking gloves for making music, in addition to the blockchain-powered Artistic Passport digital ID service for musicians. Extra not too long ago, she’s created a biographical AI, Mogen, skilled on her interviews and speeches, which she in the end hopes to make use of as a collaborator for reside performances.
On stage at Net Summit, Heap speculated about the potential for creating an “AI companion that has discovered from me, has discovered from my works,” and evolving it right into a “base mannequin” created collectively with different musicians. “If we are able to simply create these base items,” she stated, “then we are able to construct something from it in an moral, healthful and thrilling, artistic manner.”
Edited by Stacy Elliott.
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