AI SONG CONTEST:
IN THE
PRESS
Role: Everything including Composer, AI Researcher, Sound Design and Mixing Engineer
I won the AI Song Contest 2022 with my track อสุระเทวะชุมนุม - Enter Demons & Gods (“Asura Deva Choom Noom”). At the heart of this piece is “transcultural” music AI, where tools are developed in a way that brings cultures together at every stage of the engineering, design and artistic process
Historically, music AI has been limited to Western genres like classical, rock and pop music. These models built for one cultural context are often difficult to apply to music from Thailand and Southeast Asia. My track demonstrates how new AI tools empower me to make music inspired by my home traditions, in new ways that no longer compromise the tunings and motifs at the heart of Southeast Asian musical cultures.
The goal of my music project Yaboi Hanoi is to challenge culture from Southeast Asia across mediums like music, dance and design. For this track, I hoped that music AI could change listener’s perception about Thai music, both at home and abroad. I want to employ modern tools like AI to push forwards the frontiers of culture, not just from Thailand, but from all of Southeast Asia.
Nation Interview
Machine Learning Unlocks a New Era for Music
Interview with Where The Internet Lives
Artificial Intelligence Helped Make the Coolest Song You’ve Heard This Week
Interview with Scientific American
Listen HereMy mom once said, “If you understand how to play the piano, you’ll be able to understand every other instrument.” And I remember coming back to her after I finished my music major and said, “That’s actually only true because all of music has been written from the perspective of Western instruments.”
Future Instruments and Generative Transcultural Exchange
Interview with Interdependence
Listen Here
Hat Künstliche Intelligenz eine Nationalität?
Interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Listen Here
3 Ways AI Is Changing the Way Music Gets Made
Article from Fast Company
Read HereThai musician and engineer Yaboi Hanoi’s song “Enter Demons & Gods,” which won the third international AI Song Contest in 2022, was unique in that it was influenced not only by Thai mythology, but also by the sounds of native Thai musical instruments, which have a nonWestern system of intonation. One of the most technically exciting aspects of Yaboi Hanoi’s entry was the reproduction of a traditional Thai woodwind instrument—the pi nai—which was resynthesized to perform the track.