Last December, the world ushered in a new era of popular music: human and artificial intelligence (A.I.) collaboration. Musical eras are often defined by their dominant modes of production -- analog, electronic, digital -- each bringing about new styles and ways of listening. This era is marked by the release of the first A.I.-human collaborated album, Hello World, by the music collaborative Skygge. Skygge, led by composer and producer Benoît Carré and musician and tech researcher François Pachet, translates to "shadow" in Danish and was inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story of the same name. We now know that algorithms can learn human bias, but can they also create highly creative and emotionally engaging music?

Last December, the world ushered in a new era of popular music: human and artificial intelligence (AI) collaboration. Musical eras are often defined by their dominant modes of production--analog, electronic, digital--each bringing about new styles and ways of listening. This era is marked by the release of the first AI-human collaborated album, Hello World, by the music collaborative Skygge. Skygge, led by composer and producer Benoît Carré and musician and tech researcher François Pachet, translates to "shadow" in Danish and was inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story of the same name. We now know that algorithms can learn human bias, but can they also create highly creative and emotionally engaging music?

Last December, the world ushered in a new era of popular music: human and artificial intelligence (AI) collaboration. Musical eras are often defined by their dominant modes of production -- analog, electronic, digital -- each bringing about new styles and ways of listening. This era is marked by the release of the first AI-human collaborated album, Hello World, by the music collaborative Skygge. Skygge, led by composer and producer Benoît Carré and musician and tech researcher François Pachet, translates to "shadow" in Danish and was inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story of the same name. We now know that algorithms can learn human bias, but can they also create highly creative and emotionally engaging music?

Hello World is the first album composed with Artificial Intelligence by SKYGGE, aka Benoit Carré. It started as a scientific project: Flow-Machines, led by François Pachet. Flow-Machines generated many scientific results, as well as the first AI-composed pop song, Daddy's Car. Then many musicians – among them Stromae and Kiesza – met in the lab and under the artistic direction of SKYGGE took control of the Flow Machines tools, giving birth to 15 songs. Hello World, released on January 2018, is the result of this adventure.

Ready to have your mind blown? Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged in the music industry with its very first producer! SKYGGE might look like your average up-and-coming artist on Spotify, with just a couple of tracks to the name. It's actually a part-human-part-computer duo between French producer Benoit Carré and the AI program called Flow-Machines. An AI co-producer is behind two new tracks, "In the House of Poetry," and "Hello Shadow" featuring Jack Ü collaborator Kiesza.