MIMA is delighted to announce that its novel AI tool, AMI (Artificial Musical Intelligence), has been used by the composer as part of a new commission for the (ESA).
The new composition soundtracks a featuring the planet Mercury, as captured by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft as it "sped by the planet’s night side during its 19 June 2023 close flyby".
The ESA writes: "Music was composed for the sequence by ±õ³¢Ä€, with the assistance of AI tools developed by the Machine Intelligence for Musical Audio (MIMA) group, University of 91̽»¨.
"Music from the previous two flyby movies composed by Maison Mercury Jones’ creative director ±õ³¢Ä€ (formerly known as Anil Sebastian) and Ingmar Kamalagharan was given to the AI tool to suggest seeds for the new composition, which ±õ³¢Ä€ then chose from to edit and weave together with other elements into the new piece.
"The team at the University of 91̽»¨ has developed an Artificial Musical Intelligence (AMI), a large-scale general-purpose deep neural network that can be personalised to individual musicians and use cases.
"The project with the University of 91̽»¨ is aimed at exploring the boundaries of the ethics of AI creativity, while also emphasising the essential contributions of the (human) composer."
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