Jukedeck
Type of businessPrivate
Founded2012 in London
Founder(s)Ed Newton-Rex
Patrick Stobbs
IndustrySynthetic media
Algorithmic composition

Jukedeck was a British technology company founded in 2012.[1] It built a website that let users create royalty-free music using artificial intelligence.[2]

History

Ed Newton-Rex started building the first version of Jukedeck’s algorithmic composition system in 2010,[3] and founded the company in 2012.[4] In 2014, Patrick Stobbs left Google to join as co-founder.[2] Stobbs and Newton-Rex had met at the age of eight when they were both choristers in King's College Choir, and they had later been at Cambridge University together. [5][2]

In 2015, Jukedeck launched a website that let people generate original, royalty-free music for use in videos. Users could set parameters including genre, instruments and duration, and specific climactic moments in the music; they could then generate a song in around 20 seconds that they could download for non-commercial or commercial use, with prices ranging from free for personal projects to $199 per song to purchase the copyright.[6][5][7][2][8]

Newton-Rex’s original algorithmic composition program was a rule-based system in which note and chord probabilities were hard-coded.[9] By 2017, this had been replaced with a two-tiered approach, in which artificial neural networks generated musical compositions which were converted to audio using an automated music production program. Music could be generated in a number of genres, from folk to electronica.[5]

The website was used to create over 1 million pieces of music, and brands that used it included Coca-Cola, Google, UKTV, and the Natural History Museum, London.[10] In 2018, Jukedeck’s technology was used to compose the music for K-pop girl group Spica for a performance at a concert at the Blue Square Concert Hall in Seoul.[11][3] Singer Taryn Southern also used Jukedeck to create backing tracks for her songs.[3]

Jukedeck grew to a team of 20 people and raised £2.5M in funding.[8] In 2019, it was acquired by ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, for an undisclosed sum.[12][13][14]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Bloomberg Business Innovators 2016". bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Introducing the next generation of music makers". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  3. 1 2 3 "What Will Happen When Machines Write Songs Just as Well as Your Favorite Musician?". motherjones.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  4. ↑ "Jukedeck's computer composes music at touch of a button". ft.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  5. 1 2 3 "From Jingles to Pop Hits, A.I. Is Music to Some Ears". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  6. ↑ "Need Music For A Video? Jukedeck's AI Composer Makes Cheap, Custom Soundtracks". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  7. ↑ "The AI innovators who are blazing a trail into our future". wired.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  8. 1 2 "Jukedeck wants to be your band for video soundtracks". thenextweb.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  9. ↑ "Jukedeck: the software that writes music by itself, note by note". wired.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  10. ↑ "Robot rock: how AI singstars use machine learning to write harmonies". standard.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  11. ↑ "Meet pop's newest star: the song bot". thetimes.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  12. ↑ "TIKTOK OWNER BYTEDANCE BUYS AI MUSIC COMPANY JUKEDECK". musicbusinessworldwide.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  13. ↑ "As TikTok's Music Licensing Reportedly Expires, Owner ByteDance Purchases AI Music Creation Startup JukeDeck". digitalmusicnews.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  14. ↑ "An AI-generated music app is now part of the TikTok group". sea.mashable.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  15. ↑ "Jukedeck wins Vator Splash London!". vator.tv. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  16. ↑ "Automatic Music Generator Jukedeck Wins Le Web Startup Competition". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  17. ↑ "Glittering spires and silicon roundabouts". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  18. ↑ "Jukedeck wins £30,000 in TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Competition". uktech.news. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  19. ↑ "And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 Is… Jukedeck". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  20. ↑ "The hottest tech startups of 2017 rocked London at The Europas Awards". sg.finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  21. ↑ "BIMA AWARDS SETS TONE FOR FUTURE OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS". communicatemagazine.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
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