MusicFX DJ: Jacob Collier & Google’s Musical Brainstorming AI
Text Prompts and AI for Unique Musical Ideas?
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MusicFX DJ is the latest AI-based music tool from Google Labs, developed in collaboration with Jacob Collier, that allows DJs and music producers to create music interactively. The tool combines various musical elements – instruments, genres, moods and even abstract terms – based on text suggestions to create a real-time soundscape.
MusicFX DJ is a Google Tool for Innovative Soundscapes
The MusicFX DJ platform is designed to create non-linear, dynamic music compositions and can change tempo and key on the fly. This flexibility allows users to really shape the intensity or texture of their compositions in real time (!) by muting certain instruments or changing their brightness and density. Users can also directly download finished audio clips or share their creations via social media.
Jacob Collier describes his work with MusicFX DJ as a form of ‘musical improvisation’ in which the creative process takes place in front of the user’s ears. Interaction with the tool is based on a playful method that encourages spontaneous ideas – a quality that Collier believes is central to inspiration.
This kind of “sonic modelling clay”, as Collier calls it, allows users to test musical ideas and try out combinations that would be hard to imagine using conventional music production techniques. MusicFX DJ requires no prior musical knowledge and is therefore extremely versatile, allowing users to create rough musical sketches and ideas that can be developed later.
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The sound quality of the generated content remains relatively lo-fi and cannot yet compete with conventional music production tools. The goal of Google and Collier is to provide a flexible creative tool that breaks down musical boundaries and opens up a new dimension of creation for music producers, composers and sound designers.
Unfortunately, the tool is only available outside the EU, but it should be available soon. However, it can be tested using a VPN connection.
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