AI LoFi Radio

Music is constantly changing – from live music to vinyl records and all the way to LoFi HipHop live streams on YouTube. At the peak of the AI hype, the TNG Innovation Hacking Team launched an attempt to find the next logical step: An endless stream of ever-fresh LoFi music, composed and produced exclusively by algorithms and AI. The result “AI LoFi radio” is a fatiguing 24/7 live stream, fed by custom software that combines different AI models with real-time music production libraries. We use Google’s MusicVAE to generate Hip Hop drums, inspired by humanly produced drum loops. Multi-Track Music Machine (MMM) uses its transformer powers to generate a (somewhat) fitting melody and bass line. Using a combination of classic and sample-based synths, effects and a simple mixing tool, we turn our AI sheet music into audio in Python. If you want to find out for yourself how good AI Lofi Hip Hop could possibly be, just listen around. The subtle background music that you can hear throughout the exhibition is actually generated by AI.