Duas Startups Escolhidas Para Fazer Parte Da Abbey Road's Incubator

These Two Music Startups Just Joined Abbey Road's Incubator

Since launching officially just over a year ago, Abbey Road Red, the startup incubator based inside the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, has welcomed and graduated two classes of musical companies, and a third group has just been announced. This time around, the pair of companies that have been selected to join the brand new (yet still prestigious) startup accelerator are both working in the artificial intelligence vertical, which is quickly becoming a point of focus in the music industry. 

AI. Music

It’s hard to imagine a company with a more direct name than this new startup. The venture is one of many new entrants into the developing field of artificial intelligence, which is growing every day. The tech behind AI can be applied in a million different ways in a million different industries, and the people behind AI. Music are looking to change the way music is created. 

According to the company’s website, AI. Music is “exploring what happens when you apply the latest techniques in artificial intelligence to music creation.” That’s somewhat vague, but then again, the entire field of AI is changing all the time, and there is so much that can be done when it comes to furthering the use of this tech in music. 

The company also seems interested in making the process of creating great music something that everybody can enjoy, as the startup’s page claims that while progress has been made, “more needs to be done to make music production truly universally accessible.” 

Vochlea

It is difficult for many new companies to enter the hardware space, as it is an extremely expensive venture from the get-go, and there is no promise that the money will be recouped. Despite the risk, that’s exactly what those behind Vochlea have chosen to do. The first product the startup is launching with looks something like a microphone, only when the user makes a noise into the device with their mouth, the resulting output is something entirely different. The item actually turns human hums, beatboxes, and even singing into music by whatever instrument one can desire, from a guitar to horns and beyond.

What might initially sound like nothing more than a toy could actually change how people make music if the product can achieve widespread adoption. If a musician, or really anyone with a musical idea, begins humming a tune they created into the device, they could quickly turn that into a full song without the need to hire musicians or even learn to play an instrument.