AI Creates Everyone's School Songs!

■ AI Creates Everyone's School Songs!

The “Super School Song” project, a joint research endeavor between BLab and RIKEN AIP, has launched. 

AI will develop models for school song, which can be adopted as official school anthems from the elementary to university levels or used to arrange existing school songs. 

https://lp.blaboratory.org/choukouka

School songs have successfully grown to be a unique aspect of Japanese school culture. Their origin is said to be part of the educational reforms of the Meiji government, introduced to unify values and ideologies, and later spread as “songs of the locals.” 

In the Reiwa era (2019 onward), a century later, we explore the variety of school songs we want to hear and sing.

iU will adopt AI-generated music as its school song. 

Although there are already school songs like, “Let's Go iU" by Shōnen Knife, this will serve as the new school anthem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwe_zUKU4Yg

The project will also study the issue of copyright related to AI-generated works. 

The government and the Intellectual Property Headquarters previously debated the rights to AI-generated works for two years, getting ahead of the rest of the world in this discussion, but it was postponed without conclusion. 

With the reality of AI now emerging, it's time to raise these issues.

RIKEN AIP is responsible for development of the AI music generation and a comprehensive school song mapping and arrangement system.

BLab will be coordinating the research concept and public awareness to involve schools nationwide, including joint examination of copyright for AI-generated content.

RIKEN AIP, headed by Professor Masashi Sugiyama at the University of Tokyo, is a leading center for AI research in Japan, and I serve as the coordinator. 

The project is led by Team Leader Masatoshi Hamanaka, who studies the “Generative Theory of Tonal Music (GTTM)." 

It was also recently announced that Tetsuya Komuro will be taking up the post as visiting principal researcher.

BLab is iU's research institute, directed by Nanako Ishido. 

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