

motivational music for workouts).īut MusicLM isn’t flawless - far from it, truthfully. Even the experience level of the AI “musician” can be set, and the system can create music inspired by places, epochs or requirements (e.g.

That’s not all. MusicLM can also be instructed via a combination of picture and caption, or generate audio that’s “played” by a specific type of instrument in a certain genre. See below, which came from the sequence “electronic song played in a videogame,” “meditation song played next to a river,” “fire,” “fireworks.” “time to meditate,” “time to wake up,” “time to run,” “time to give 100%”) and create a sort of melodic “story” or narrative ranging up to several minutes in length - perfectly fit for a movie soundtrack. Moreover, MusicLM can take several descriptions written in sequence (e.g. The Google researchers show that the system can build on existing melodies, whether hummed, sung, whistled or played on an instrument. MusicLM’s artificial intelligence capabilities extend beyond generating short clips of songs. Here’s another sample, generated from a description starting with the sentence “The main soundtrack of an arcade game.” Plausible, right? The caption for the sample below, for example, included the bit “induces the experience of being lost in space,” and it definitely delivers on that front (at least to my ears):
