A Year Researching Music AI

The project timeline of 2023-24 also happened to be an explosive year for Music GenAI. John Oestmann was in the fortunate position to be involved in all parts of this project, while also working as a professional game composer himself. Experience the project's outcomes and development, reflections from industry interviews, and the simultaneous global evolution of GenAI, through John's perspective. CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction and Context 1:20 Summer 2023: Project Conception 1:51 Autumn 2023: Digital Futures Grant 3:56 Winter 2023: Life ReSounding Video Game 4:39 Winter 2023: MetaMIDI Toolkit 6:37 Winter 2023: Gearing up for our Interviews 7:02 Spring 2023: Interviews with Game Professionals 8:06 Spring 2023: OpenAI Turmoil 9:29 Spring 2023: Suno (Music GenAI) 10:37 Summer 2024: Surprising Interview Discussions 13:06 Summer 2024: Pitchfork Merger 15:29 Summer 2024: MIDI Support in our Toolkit 18:24 Autumn 2024: Udio (Music GenAI) 18:57 Autumn 2024: Transparent Automation/AI Design