Winner of the 2021 AI Song Contest announced!

On 6 July, the organisers of the AI Song Contest revealed the winner of this year’s competition. The accolade goes to…

Team | M.O.G.I.I.7.E.D.
Song | Listen to Your Body Choir
Team members | Jon Gillick, Max Savage, Matt Sims, Brodie Jenkins

You can listen to the winning song below:

The team wrote here about their song, and how they used AI in the composition process. The song is based on Daisy Bell (composed by Harry Dacre in 1892), which was the first song to be sung by a computer. The team used language model GPT-2 to generate the lyrics, and recurring neural networks (RNN) to create the melody, other samples, and drum loops.

The announcement was made during a live session, which you can watch below:

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.