First Principles Music

• A new type of music production company, built from first principles aka
• UMG meets GitHub
• Note: Slightly off-topic but who wants to help build the future of music? We can add secure agents to it later to manage the various workflows & improve features/experience ;)

AI Music has become ridiculously good.

Here are 3 examples of original works I created from lyrics to music style to vocals style:

• Forged in Balance, New Systems Arc (Melodic Progressive Metal, female vocals)
• The Curvature of Time, Arden Vale (Emotive Vocal Electronica
• The New Code, Arden Vale (Emotive Vocal Electronica This was the track that inspired the opening sequence at AIE CODE (not the other way around).

I am the co-founder & creative director for the AI Engineer Summit and World’s Fair (https://www.ai.engineer/) (which Dex called “the best-run conference I’ve ever been to. Much of my music was written for that audience – the livestream attendees. I started with just instrumentals (which are also incredible) but then I tried my hand at vocals. And boy did it shine. The more I made music, the more convinced I was that this is a fucking revolution in music – production, consumption, sharing, remixing, performance. What’s most incredible is how easy and fast it is, provided that you have the right workflow, intention, time-effort, and background to put quality tokens in to get quality output. So yea – a recipe much like anything great in this world.

I don’t half-ass anything, I’m in this to build something great that will redefine the industry. Come hack with me if the following sounds exciting to you, and let’s make irrelevant UMG et al:

What the product does & a few methods

1. FP.Composer = Guided GUI for writing incredible lyrics and turning them into great songs, all within the app (Suno API access). Simplest feature to implement (prompt engineering, provided you have the right prompts/workflows/gui). This is our scope for this hackathon project and our MVP. Teaser of a few additional features I’m working on:
2. Artist.init() = Creates a new Artist, including image, name, vocal style, and music style. The user who calls Artist.init() becomes the Custodian of that Artist. The Artist is instantiated as a repo, with Artist.main as its canonical main branch.
3. Artist.branch() = Creates a new working branch under an existing Artist for a vetted (Core) Producer. This branch inherits the same vocal + music style constraints as Artist.main. Used for experimenting with new songs without modifying the canonical works.
4. Artist.pull_request(branch_id) = Called by a Producer working on a specific Artist branch. Submits a PR from that branch to Artist.main for the Custodian to review. The Custodian may accept or reject the merge at their discretion.
5. Artist.fork() = Allows a non-authorized user (not a Core Producer) to create an independent fork of the Artist repo. The forked Artist can be used to create new works and may diverge in style/branding (policy-dependent). Forking Producers may still submit Artist.pull_request() back to the original Artist.main, where merges—if accepted—allow the work to enter Core.

Various monetization strategies for the above are also ready to deploy.

Want to build the future of music? Come chat with me. Steal this idea if you want, but you will lose. Better to win together.