Jukedeck founder to premiere new choral composition with AI-generated lyrics
completemusicupdate.comThe VOCES8 Foundation presents its latest Live From London digital festival this weekend which, among other things, will include the premiere performance of a new piece composed by Ed Newton-Rex that features lyrics generated by artificial intelligence.Composer and entrepreneur Newton-Rex has been involved in generative AI in the music space for more than a decade, having founded the music AI start-up Jukedeck that was subsequently acquired by TikTok owner Bytedance.
He is now VP of Audio at Stability AI.For his new composition – called ‘I Stand In The Library’ – he used OpenAI’s GPT-3 to generate a set of lyrics which he then set to music.
It will be performed by the VOCES8 Choir in a Live From London concert that will be available to stream on-demand from Saturday.Newton-Rex spoke to CMU’s sister media ThisWeek Culture about the new composition, explaining: “When OpenAI’s GPT-3 was released to initial testers, I heard about it and signed up for early access.
In the early days lots of people were sharing poetry it had written them, some of which was surprisingly good – so it wasn’t a great leap to think perhaps I could use it to write a text for my [next music project]”.He initially prompted the generative AI with the line “below is a poem about music and solitude”.
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