Recently I came across one of the most interesting start-ups engaged in producing AI music: Aiva Technologies. Founded in February 2016 in Luxembourg by Pierre Barreau, Aiva focuses on developing emotional classical soundtracks. Their main target audience does seem to be individual consumers, but rather advertising and production agencies. Their aim claim is to focus in developing...

Pricing decisions for art-related products is always a sensitive topic. Much of the value of such products are determined by purely the perception of buyers and subjective attributions. For example, on a super interesting study published in 2016 at the Journal “Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts”, researchers revealed that the reputation of a gallery,...

Imagine a time when music fans will attend concerts performed by human musicians, but where all songs have been composed by artificial intelligence (AI). This time has arrived. Organized by Sony – Computer Science Laboratory (CSL), the concert took place in October 2016 in Paris (Gaîté Lyrique), and was part of the “Intense Science Festival“, which involved...

Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Leonardo da Vinci, Salvador Dali…. They were all extraordinary painters and left their names in the history of art. In addition, much of their contribution to art derives from their unique “styles of painting”. Simply said, one can understand “style of painting” by patterns of procedures with which one...

2017 has just started and it already promises to be a game changing year for the music industry. Why? Well, Sony Music will release its first album fully composed by Artificial Intelligence (AI). It will represent the start of the commercialization of music fully produced by software and, in face of Sony’s commitment to the project, it is expected to display great quality and...