The AI Song Contest comes to…
Award Show 5 October 2024
Call for Applications OPEN!
The AI Song Contest is an international competition showcasing the creative potential of human–AI co-creativity in the songwriting process. Teams consisting of musicians, researchers, music producers, data scientists, developers – and anyone else interested in the combination of music and artificial intelligence (AI) – collaborate to create a song with AI as a creative partner.
2023 Edition
Mentoring & AI Song Sessions: June/July 2024
Submission Deadline: 31 July 2024
Jury and Public Voting: August & September 2024
Creator Protection Summit & Award Show: 5 October 2024
The AI Song Contest is a music competition all about collaboration between human and AI. Teams are encouraged to experiment, mix multiple tools (open source and their own) together, explore or enhance new techniques, and use data in creative ways during composition process.
The contest welcomes a wide range of musical genres, highlighting the diverse and creative ways in which musicians can partner with AI to compose and perform a song.
The public and a jury of AI and music-industry professionals will judge not only the quality of the entry but also the quality and innovation in human–AI interaction. The winner is announced in the AI Song Contest Award Show, after the AI & Creation Day full of panel discussions.
How AI can inspire artists can be seen from last year's contributions. Take a look at all previous teams of the contest:
About the AISC
Mission
The AI Song Contest Foundation organizes the AI Song Contest every year to
inspire and encourage people making music to use AI as a creative tool and in a fair way
cultivate a collaborative platform for artists of human AI co-creation
showcase the results and the process of human-AI co-creation for a global audience.
Why we do it
The AI Song Contest was invented in 2020 by Dutch public broadcaster VPRO. Since then the AI Song Contest has been organized independently in Liège, Belgium (2021, 2022) and A Coruna, Spain (2023) by an international and interdisciplinary team.
Current Members are Rebecca Leger (Event & Communication), Ryan Groves (Sponsoring), Ashley Burgoyne (Jury) and Natasha Mangal (Legal).
Former Members: Karen van Dijk, Carol Reiley, Hendrik Vincent Koops and Ed Newton-Rex.
