The AI Song Contest 2021 was the second edition of the AI Song Contest, an international music competition for songs that have been composed using artificial intelligence (AI). The 2021 contest was independently organised by John Ashley Burgoyne, Ryan Groves, Anna Huang, Rujing Stacy Huang, Hendrik Vincent Koops, and Rebecca Leger, and it was supported by the technology hubs Wallifornia MusicTech, DeepMusic.ai, and Amsterdam Music Lab. The results of the competition were announced on 6 July 2021 at a virtual conference that was part of the four-day Music & Innovation Summit organised by Wallifornia MusicTech. The contest was won by M.O.G.I.I.7.E.D. from the United States with the song "Listen to Your Body Choir".
Format
Each participating team had to submit a song of up to four minutes that has been composed using artificial intelligence.6 Human input was allowed, but the more AI was used, the more points the entry got from the jury.7 The entries were also evaluated by the public through online voting.8 The winner was announced in a live show on 6 July 2021.
Jury
The jury consisted of eight AI experts, who assessed each entry based on the use of artificial intelligence in the songwriting process:9
- Ryan Groves (Infinite Album)
- Imogen Heap (singer-songwriter)
- Anna Huang (Google Brain)
- Rujing Stacy Huang (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
- Ajay Kapur (California Institute of the Arts)
- Hendrik Vincent Koops (RTL Nederland)
- Mark Simos (Berklee College of Music)
- Uncanny Valley (winners of the 2020 edition)
Competing entries
The live show took place on 6 July 2021 at 18:00 CEST and was broadcast by Wallifornia MusicTech as part of the virtual Music & Innovation Summit.10 The contest featured the following competing entries:11
| Origin | Team | Song | Language | Points | Place | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jury | Public | Total | |||||
| Belgium | Battery-operated | "Pure Paint" | Instrumental | 3 | 6.4 | 9.4 | 34 |
| Beatroots AI | "Robotic Love" | English | 6 | 9.3 | 15.3 | 14 | |
| Bolivia | Genetic Scale | "Scaling Pilot" | Instrumental | 5 | 5.6 | 10.6 | 32 |
| Musicians Meeseeks | "The Dawn of AI" | Instrumental | 2 | 2.7 | 4.7 | 38 | |
| Brazil | Symbiotic Sounds12 | "Sem amor" | Portuguese | 4 | 8.1 | 12.1 | 25 |
| TridecatoNICS | "Feijão de corda (String Beans)" | Portuguese | 4 | 9.7 | 13.7 | 20 | |
| Canada | Metacreation Lab | "A Song About the Weekend (and You Can Do Whatever You Want)" | English | 2 | 7.7 | 9.7 | 33 |
| Catalonia | AImCAT | "I Feel the Wires" | English, Catalan | 5 | 11.2 | 16.2 | 11 |
| China | Pineapple13 | "Mileaway" | English | 2 | 6.1 | 8.1 | 36 |
| France | Gulluni x Algomus | "The Last Moment Before You Fly" | Instrumental | 9 | 9.6 | 18.6 | 3 |
| Nous sommes Whim Therapy | "Let It Go" | English | 6 | 10.8 | 16.8 | 9 | |
| Uuav | "Multi-Temporal Artefacts 4" | Instrumental | 6 | 7.1 | 13.1 | 21 | |
| Germany | BeatWire | "Love Will Guide It" | English | 4 | 7.7 | 11.7 | 26 |
| HfMT Hamburg | "Belta tormenti" | Italian | 4 | 7.7 | 11.7 | 27 | |
| Sound Obsessed | "Vessel" | English | 8 | 9.5 | 17.5 | 8 | |
| Hungary | Artax | "Seventeen Years Against Walls" | English | 5 | 7.7 | 12.7 | 22 |
| Ireland | Blue Seeds | "Rhythm 'n Blue" | Instrumental | 7 | 7.6 | 14.6 | 19 |
| Mexico | 5Seven Records | "Engulf" | English | 2 | 3.8 | 5.8 | 37 |
| Nepal | Diwas feat. Chepang, Kutumba & Hari Maharjan Project | "Dreaming of Nepal" | Instrumental | 6 | 9 | 15 | 17 |
| Netherlands | Lovelace & The Machines | "Quantum Trap" | English | 11 | 9.3 | 20.3 | 2 |
| Thunderboom Records | "Fountain" | English | 3 | 7.9 | 10.9 | 30 | |
| UUrhythmicArt | "A Glitch in Humanity" | English | 5 | 9.9 | 14.9 | 18 | |
| South Korea | A/S (Artificial Spirit) | "Beyond the Kosmos" | English | 7 | 9.1 | 16.1 | 12 |
| H:Ai:N | "Han:Han" (Han:한) | Korean | 8 | 10.5 | 18.5 | 4 | |
| Rubato Lab | "Daybreak" | Instrumental | 3 | 8.2 | 11.2 | 29 | |
| Seoul Wave Factory | "Voyage to Earth" | Korean | 6 | 10.6 | 16.6 | 10 | |
| Spain | Menara, Gonimix & Andino | "Coco, duérmete ya" | Spanish | 8 | 10.1 | 18.1 | 6 |
| Sweden | STHLM | "Evigt förlorad (Forever Lost)" | Swedish | 10 | 8.1 | 18.1 | 5 |
| United Kingdom | Smorgasborg | "Like a Diamond Dust" | English | 5 | 10 | 15 | 16 |
| The Elephants and The | "Circus" | English | 7 | 10.7 | 17.7 | 7 | |
| United States | Audoir | "Start It Up" | English | 5 | 7.1 | 12.1 | 24 |
| Dadabots | "Can't Play Instruments" | Instrumental | 3 | 5.3 | 8.3 | 35 | |
| Jason Brancazio | "Make It Funky Now!" | Instrumental | 6 | 9.2 | 15.2 | 15 | |
| M.O.G.I.I.7.E.D. | "Listen to Your Body Choir" | English | 12 | 9.7 | 21.7 | 1 | |
| Never Before Heard Sounds | "Features Music" | Instrumental | 6 | 5.6 | 11.6 | 28 | |
| Nobel Yoo | "Manifold" | Instrumental | 3 | 7.6 | 10.6 | 31 | |
| Zillion Inch Keytar | "Body of a Nightmare" | English | 6 | 6.6 | 12.6 | 23 | |
| Mixed | Transatlantic Waves | "Destined to Be Human" | English | 5 | 10.3 | 15.3 | 13 |
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External links
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