Google has released an updated version of MusicFX DJ, a generative music tool that helps anyone create a continuous flow of music, developed through collaboration with Jacob Collier, a six-time Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist.
The project emerges from Lab Sessions, Google's initiative that brings together artists, academics, scientists and entrepreneurs to explore AI's potential and inform product development. Over the past year, Collier has worked with Google DeepMind and Google Labs to help shape the tool.
The updated MusicFX DJ allows users to mix prompts including instruments, genres, and emotions to steer a continuous flow of music, designed to spark ideas or sample within one's own music creations. New features include controls for making music fast or slow and bright or dark, letting people transform the music in both deliberate and surprising ways.
The tool now enables users to share up to 60 seconds of their MusicFX DJ sessions with others, who can use these segments as starting points to create something new. This sharing feature allows people to continuously build upon and explore new directions from their initial creations.
Collier's work with the team focused on user flow state, making creative expression and inspiration more accessible to people of all backgrounds and skill levels through an expanded set of controls and a reimagined user interface.