This is the presentation for the first webinar in a free series on AI for the music business. Here's what it was about: Every industry across the board, from finance to health to cars, is facing disruption from Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Even the music business is starting to integrate AI technology that will radically transform this industry forever. As a music business leader or entrepreneur, it’s important that you have a clear grasp of AI’s potential uses and limitations in the music business. Not only will this give you an edge in navigating the incoming revolution, but also help improve the products and services you offer to your customers.

1. AI for the
music business

2. I am Valerio Velardo, PhD
Cofounder & CEO @ Melodrive
AI + Music Researcher
Hello!

3. What you’ll learn...
◍ Distinguish between AI, machine
learning and deep learning
◍ Basic grasp of what’s possible in AI
music
◍ AI applications in the music industry

4. Overview
1. What’s AI?
2. AI music
3. Business use cases for AI music
4. Melodrive
5. Q&A

5. 1.
What’s AI?

6. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
◍ Human level of
intelligence
◍ Can perform any
cognitive task a human
can

7. Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI)
◍ Focused on solving
domain-specific tasks
◍ Effective
◍ Easier to implement
than AGI

8. AI, machine learning and deep learning

9. AI approaches
◍ Symbolic AI
◍ Search and optimisation
◍ Probabilistic methods
◍ Machine learning

10. Machine learning
◍ Algorithms learn rules
from data
◍ Training dataset
◍ Several ML algorithms

11. Deep learning
◍ Neural nets with >1 hidden
layers
◍ Outperform traditional
ML algorithms
◍ Resource-intensive

12. Deep learning in action

13. 2.
AI music

14. AI Music
MIR
(analysis)
Generative Music
(creation)

15. Music Information Retrieval
◍ Extract musical features from raw audio
and symbolic scores
◍ Use ML + AI techniques
◍ MIR research around for a few decades.
Recently entered production

16. MIR tasks
◍ Automatic key, tempo, beat, chord
progression... identification
◍ Track separation and instrument recognition
◍ Music transcription
◍ Genre/mood categorization
◍ Automatic music analysis
◍ Automatic tagging
◍ Music recommendation
◍ ...

17. Generative music
◍ 1st piece generated by a computer in
1950s
◍ Uses AI + ML techniques to generate
music
◍ Improvisation, fully-generative
systems, AI-assisted composition

18. 3.
Business use cases for AI music

19. Augmenting music creation
◍ AI-assisted music creation

20. Augmenting music creation: Google Magenta

21. Augmenting music creation
◍ AI-assisted music creation
◍ Lowering the barriers of entry to music
creation

22. Augmenting music creation: Landr

23. Augmenting music consumption
◍ Improving music discovery

24. Augmenting music consumption:
Discover Weekly

25. Augmenting music consumption
◍ Improving music discovery
◍ New forms of music

26. Augmenting music consumption: Melodrive

27. Problems with production music
75%
Think that finding the right music is very time-consuming
67%
Think that it takes a lot effort to put together a soundtrack
that fits a video perfectly

28. Rethinking music supervision
◍ Discover music through sonic similarity
◍ Implement solid recommender/search systems
tailored to each user profile
◍ Provide music that automatically matches the
emotional content of a video

29. Streamlining music tagging
◍ Algorithms that automatically extract
features from songs
◍ Extract metadata from unstructured
text-based descriptions

30. The perks of AI music
◍ Automate several analytical tasks
◍ Augment the music experience
◍ Provide highly-tailored content

31. Setting up the right expectations
◍ AI music isn’t a panacea
◍ AI can streamline processes but… human QA is
still necessary

32. 4.
Melodrive

33. Who we are
◍ Team of PhDs in Music and AI
◍ Experience in industry and
academia
◍ AI music consulting

34. What we’ve worked on
◍ Built AI generative music
engine used by 1K game
developers
◍ Worked on client projects in
MIR and generative music

35. What we do
◍ AI and data strategy/training
◍ Design and implement bespoke AI music
solutions
◍ Build generative music soundtracks

36. https://medium.com/the-sound-of-ai
@musikalkemist
valerio_velardo
valerio@melodrive.com