By Padraig.
Business reporter.
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A number of computer systems can write music.
Alex Mitchell is a man who can help you if you're worried about not having enough talent to make it in music.
Mr Mitchell is the founder and boss of a website and app called Boomy, which helps its users create their own songs using artificial intelligence software that does most of the heavy lifting.
You can choose from a number of genres and the artificial intelligence will create a song for you in less than 30 seconds. It picks the track's key, melody, and key. You can then modify your song.
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The Boomy app can be used on the move.
You can do things like add or strip-out instruments, change the tempo, adjust the volumes, add echoes, make everything sound brighter or softer, and lay down some vocals.
According to Boomy, its users around the world have created almost five million songs.
The Boomy website and app allows people to earn money by playing their tracks on music streaming sites and by submitting their tracks to be listed on them.
The company says it gives 80% of the streaming royalties to the person who created the song.
Over 100,000 songs have been published by its users on various streaming services.
"Eighty-five per cent of our users have never made music before," Mr Mitchell says. People who were paying their rent, and augmenting their income, with $100 or $200 a month from Boomy during Covid are now available.
How good are these songs? They sound very computer generated. They are not for a group of people making music using real instruments.
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There are a number of songs created by Boomy.
David Cope, a US classical composer, developed a software system in the 1980s to help him compose music.
He set up to write compositions that were similar to those by the German composer. The computer had composed 5,000 Bach-inspired chorales after Mr. Cope popped out for a sandwich. These were released on an album.
Holly Herndon, a US electronic music composer, made an album called Proto in collaboration with an artificial intelligence system called Spawn. Ms Herndon holds a doctorate in music and computing from the US's Stanford University.
Mr Mitchell says that technological advances in artificial intelligence have made song-writing software much cheaper.
The basic membership package is free. Audoir's SAM and Melobytes are free to use.
New tech is changing many aspects of the music industry, even though it is novelty.
Matthew Shilvock says that keeping an opera company going was difficult when the City and County of San Francisco imposed strict lockdowns in 2020.
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Matthew Shilvock says that the San Francisco Opera needed a video conferencing system that would allow the singers and musicians to perform in real time.
He is the general director of the San Francisco Opera, and it could no longer have two singers or even a singer and pianist in the same room.
Traditional video conference platforms didn't work when he tried to run rehearsals with his performers online. They weren't in sync.
Mr Shilvock turned to a platform called Aloha that was developed by a Swedish music tech start-up. It uses a method to reduce latencies.
The Swedish firm has gotten the video platform's latency down to just 20.
Mr Shilvock says that Aloha has allowed him to hear a singer breathe.
It's natural for an opera house with a close proximity to Silicon Valley to look to wider tech to solve problems. The drive to find solutions through technology is part of the city's DNA.
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The sound and video can be played with little delay.
Aurélia Azoulay-Guetta says that as an amateur classical musician, she realized how much time and effort it takes to carry, store, and travel with a lot of physical sheet music.
She and her co-founder decided to junk their jobs and launch a start-up called Newzik, which allows music publishers and composers to digitally distribute their sheet music to orchestras.
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Ms Azoulay-Guetta says that her solution eliminates the stress of musicians having to turn paper pages with their hands. Instead, they use a connected pedal to turn a page.
Every orchestra member's copy of the electronic music sheets will be updated if the arrangement of a concerto or other composition is changed.
Ms Azoulay-Guetta says that this feature helped when concerts resumed after a lock down, because orchestras and ensembles had to make last minute changes.
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Users can update sheet music with an electronic pen.
Tech firms are trying to help musicians deal with their paperwork more effectively. Faniak is a start-up from Portugal.
The app allows musicians to spend more time writing and playing music because it allows them to do their admin in one place.
Mr Mitchell is a classically-trained violinist. He says that the firm's users are popping up everywhere.
He says that they have drivers playing music during their drives. I woke up to a frantic call from my head of engineers, asking if we were under attack.
There was a lot of traffic from Turkey, but we don't have a Turkish version. We have tens of thousands of users in Turkey because of a video by a YouTuber there.
There is streaming.
There is artificial intelligence.
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