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Australia wins Artificial Intelligence Song Contest

12 May 2020

The Australian team named Uncanny Valley has won the AI Song Contest with a track entitled Beautiful the World. The event was organized by Dutch broadcaster VPRO in cooperation with radio station NPO 3FM and NPO Innovation.
5 questions about AI and music

29 April 2020

Artificial intelligence making music? No way! The editorial staff of the AI Song Contest answers five questions about AI and music.
Tulip mania and the stock market

22 April 2020

A recent project by British artist Anna Ridler links the growth of tulips to the price of Bitcoin, and examines the concepts of speculation and hypercapitalism. She does this with the help of artificial intelligence, but says: 'I select and bring order. That is my primary calling as an artist.’
Anybody can be a composer

16 April 2020

A panel of three AI music experts evaluate the AI Song Contest entries. What do they think about the teams’ creativity in using AI in their compositions, and about its future in music production? Have human composers had their day?
We are AI

14 April 2020

Composer and singer Holly Herndon has expanded her 'ensemble' to include an artificially intelligent vocalist named Spawn, trained using Herndon's voice. ‘Spawn does things with my voice that I wouldn't otherwise do,’ she says.
Will computers turn into humans?

7 April 2020

The American author Ross Goodwin trains artificial intelligence to help him in his work. ‘We need to regard authorship as editing and montage,’ he says.
AI needs us

6 April 2020

The German artist Mario Klingemann uses artificial intelligence in his work, and is considered a pioneer in the field. ‘AI art is made for people, not for other computers,’ he says.
Sneak peak

24 March 2020

Despite the corona crisis and working remotely in the last week before the deadline, 13 teams from across Europe and Australia have managed to create an AI Song Contest song using artificial intelligence. From 10 April, all entries can be heard on this website and you will determine which AI songs earn your douze points.
Digital AI Song Contest To Go Ahead

24 March 2020

Although Eurovision 2020 has sadly been cancelled, the digital AI Song Contest is going ahead as planned. As an addition to the Eurovision Song Contest, Dutch public broadcaster VPRO together with NPO Innovation and NPO 3FM have organised a song competition for artificial intelligence. The experiment aims to explore whether computers are capable of composing Eurovision hits on a par with last year’s winning song by Duncan Laurence.
And the winner is... an algorithm!
AI Song Contest live stream on Tuesday 12 May, 2020
Thirteen teams from Europe and Australia have been working overtime lately, hunched over their computers to create the ultimate Eurovision hit with the help of artificial intelligence. The best track as chosen by the audience and AI experts will be unveiled in a festive live stream on Tuesday 12 May at 8:30 pm CET. Who will scoop up douze points and win the AI Song Contest 2020?
The AI panel about the AI Song Contest entries
'Composing a song with AI is hard'
All the AI Song Contest songs were evaluated both by the audience and by a panel of AI experts. The panel with Vincent Koops (NL), Anna Huang (US) and Ed Newton-Rex (UK), looked at the use of AI and creative application of AI and was impressed by the entries.