AI Song Contest 2021

The AI Song Contest 2021 was the second edition of the AI Song Contest, an international music competition for songs that have been composed using artificial intelligence (AI).^[1] The 2021 contest was independently organised by John Ashley Burgoyne, Ryan Groves, Anna Huang, Rujing Stacy Huang, Hendrik Vincent Koops, and Rebecca Leger, and it was supported by the technology hubs Wallifornia MusicTech, DeepMusic.ai, and Amsterdam Music Lab.^[2][3] The results of the competition were announced on 6 July 2021 at a virtual conference that was part of the four-day Music & Innovation Summit organised by Wallifornia MusicTech.^[4] The contest was won by M.O.G.I.I.7.E.D. from the United States with the song "Listen to Your Body Choir".^[5]

AI Song Contest 2021
Date and venue
Final	6 July 2021
Venue	Liège, Belgium
Organisation
Presenters	Cesar Majorana [nl]
Participants
Number of entries	38
Vote
Voting system	50% jury, 50% online voting
Winning song	United States "Listen to Your Body Choir"
2020 ← AI Song Contest → 2022

Format

Each participating team had to submit a song of up to four minutes that has been composed using artificial intelligence.^[6] Human input was allowed, but the more AI was used, the more points the entry got from the jury.^[6] The entries were also evaluated by the public through online voting.^[6] The winner was announced in a live show on 6 July 2021.

Imogen Heap

Jury

The jury consisted of eight AI experts, who assessed each entry based on the use of artificial intelligence in the songwriting process:^[7]

• Ryan Groves (Infinite Album)
• Imogen Heap (singer-songwriter)
• Anna Huang (Google Brain)
• Rujing Stacy Huang (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
• Ajay Kapur (California Institute of the Arts)
• Hendrik Vincent Koops (RTL Nederland)
• Mark Simos (Berklee College of Music)
• Uncanny Valley (winners of the 2020 edition)

Competing entries

The live show took place on 6 July 2021 at 18:00 CEST and was broadcast by Wallifornia MusicTech as part of the virtual Music & Innovation Summit.^[4] The contest featured the following competing entries:^[8]

Origin	Team	Song	Language	Points			Place
				Jury	Public	Total
Belgium	Battery-operated	"Pure Paint"	Instrumental	3	6.4	9.4	34
	Beatroots AI	"Robotic Love"	English	6	9.3	15.3	14
Bolivia	Genetic Scale	"Scaling Pilot"	Instrumental	5	5.6	10.6	32
	Musicians Meeseeks	"The Dawn of AI"	Instrumental	2	2.7	4.7	38
Brazil	Symbiotic Sounds[a]	"Sem amor"	Portuguese	4	8.1	12.1	25
	TridecatoNICS	"Feijão de corda (String Beans)"	Portuguese	4	9.7	13.7	20
Canada	Metacreation Lab	"A Song About the Weekend (and You Can Do Whatever You Want)"	English	2	7.7	9.7	33
Catalonia	AImCAT	"I Feel the Wires"	English, Catalan	5	11.2	16.2	11
China	Pineapple[b]	"Mileaway"	English	2	6.1	8.1	36
France	Gulluni x Algomus	"The Last Moment Before You Fly"	Instrumental	9	9.6	18.6	3
	Nous sommes Whim Therapy	"Let It Go"	English	6	10.8	16.8	9
	Uuav	"Multi-Temporal Artefacts 4"	Instrumental	6	7.1	13.1	21
Germany	BeatWire	"Love Will Guide It"	English	4	7.7	11.7	26
	HfMT Hamburg	"Belta tormenti"	Italian	4	7.7	11.7	27
	Sound Obsessed	"Vessel"	English	8	9.5	17.5	8
Hungary	Artax	"Seventeen Years Against Walls"	English	5	7.7	12.7	22
Ireland	Blue Seeds	"Rhythm 'n Blue"	Instrumental	7	7.6	14.6	19
Mexico	5Seven Records	"Engulf"	English	2	3.8	5.8	37
Nepal	Diwas feat. Chepang, Kutumba & Hari Maharjan Project	"Dreaming of Nepal"	Instrumental	6	9	15	17
Netherlands	Lovelace & The Machines	"Quantum Trap"	English	11	9.3	20.3	2
	Thunderboom Records	"Fountain"	English	3	7.9	10.9	30
	UUrhythmicArt	"A Glitch in Humanity"	English	5	9.9	14.9	18
South Korea	A/S (Artificial Spirit)	"Beyond the Kosmos"	English	7	9.1	16.1	12
	H:Ai:N	"Han:Han" (Han:한)	Korean	8	10.5	18.5	4
	Rubato Lab	"Daybreak"	Instrumental	3	8.2	11.2	29
	Seoul Wave Factory	"Voyage to Earth"	Korean	6	10.6	16.6	10
Spain	Menara, Gonimix & Andino	"Coco, duérmete ya"	Spanish	8	10.1	18.1	6
Sweden	STHLM	"Evigt förlorad (Forever Lost)"	Swedish	10	8.1	18.1	5
United Kingdom	Smorgasborg	"Like a Diamond Dust"	English	5	10	15	16
	The Elephants and The	"Circus"	English	7	10.7	17.7	7
United States	Audoir	"Start It Up"	English	5	7.1	12.1	24
	Dadabots	"Can't Play Instruments"	Instrumental	3	5.3	8.3	35
	Jason Brancazio	"Make It Funky Now!"	Instrumental	6	9.2	15.2	15
	M.O.G.I.I.7.E.D.	"Listen to Your Body Choir"	English	12	9.7	21.7	1
	Never Before Heard Sounds	"Features Music"	Instrumental	6	5.6	11.6	28
	Nobel Yoo	"Manifold"	Instrumental	3	7.6	10.6	31
Zillion Inch Keytar	"Body of a Nightmare"	English	6	6.6	12.6	23
Mixed	Transatlantic Waves	"Destined to Be Human"	English	5	10.3	15.3	13

Notes

1. Based in the Netherlands.
2. Based in the United Kingdom.