Mr Shadow: a song composed with Artificial Intelligence

About Sony CSL Music Team:

Sony CSL (Computer Science Laboratories) is a fundamental research laboratory based in Tokyo and Paris whose "Music and Artificial Intelligence" team has an exclusively artist-centric vision: Tomorrow's production tools should stimulate creators' imagination, and offer new possibilities for interaction while fitting in the modern production process. Therefore, they develop a new generation of music production tools based on Artificial Intelligence, which increase creativity and are beneficial to the music creation process.

The music team is actively working with artists such as Jean Michel Jarre, Niro, Uèle Lamore, Twenty9, and others, to ensure that the research is consistent with the new opportunities available to artists.

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Flow Machines / Mister Shadow :

Scientists at SONY CSL Research Lab have created the first-ever entire songs composed by Artificial Intelligence: "Daddy's Car" and "Mister Shadow".

The researchers have developed Flow Machines, a system that learns music styles and exploits unique combinations of style transfer, optimization, and interaction techniques, Flow Machines is meant to be an interactive tool that can suggest new melodic creative ideas.

"Mister Shadow" is composed with Flow Machines, in the style of American songwriters such as Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and Cole Porter. French composer Benoît Carré arranged and produced the song, and wrote the lyrics.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventy Framework Program (EP7/2007-2013 Grant Agreement no.291156).
The research leading to these results has been conducted by Sony Computer Science Laboratories Paris (Sony CSL Paris) and Pierre and MarieCurie University (UPMC), under the leadership of François Pachet.

For more info: http://www.flow-machines.com/
https://csl.sony.fr/projects-music/