Sony launches ‘Flow Machines’: how creators use AI to compose music
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Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc (Sony CSL) started a service “Flow Machines (FM)” based on the AI-assisted music production project.
The first song will be developed as part of LoFi Beats channel’s “Tokyo LosT Tracks – Sacra Chill” animation and melody created by Sony Music Labels Inc.
Sony CSL has been conducting research on music since 1996 in Paris. In 2012, it launched FM as a research and development and social implementation project aiming at creativity expansion of creators in music.
Development is currently underway in Paris and Tokyo. FM says it is working with artists to create a variety of new styles of music using state-of-the-art machine learning and signal processing technologies.
The core of FM is the AI-assisted music production tool “Flow Machines Professional” (FM Pro).
FM Pro is a composition-specific tool that offers melody, chords, and basses tailored to styles that a composer wants to create. FM Pro can choose its own melody proposed by AI based on a creator’s sense and proceed with music production.
This has resulted in new co-writing that combines human creativity with AI music.
Original Text: https://ampmedia.jp/2020/03/24/sonycsl/