Amber Beverage and Plant Shadow Still Life
Amber Beverage and Plant Shadow Still Life
Amber Beverage and Plant Shadow Still Life

Challenge

Traditional music production workflows do not scale well for functional use cases that require many variations, long durations, or frequent updates. Fully generative systems often sacrifice musical control, while manual composition is too time-consuming.

The challenge was to design a system that could generate music programmatically while preserving musical structure, stylistic consistency, and human-readable control.

Insight

Music generation becomes more manageable when treated as a structured system rather than continuous audio. By organizing music around loops, sections, chapters, and metadata such as BPM, key, mood, and duration, it becomes possible to automate composition without losing musical intent.

Solution

Indexing

The system begins by indexing all music loops with structured metadata, including tempo, key, category, mood, and duration. This step transforms raw audio assets into searchable musical units, allowing the system to filter and select compatible materials before any composition happens.

Challenge

Traditional music production workflows do not scale well for functional use cases that require many variations, long durations, or frequent updates. Fully generative systems often sacrifice musical control, while manual composition is too time-consuming.

The challenge was to design a system that could generate music programmatically while preserving musical structure, stylistic consistency, and human-readable control.

Insight

Music generation becomes more manageable when treated as a structured system rather than continuous audio. By organizing music around loops, sections, chapters, and metadata such as BPM, key, mood, and duration, it becomes possible to automate composition without losing musical intent.

Solution

Indexing

The system begins by indexing all music loops with structured metadata, including tempo, key, category, mood, and duration. This step transforms raw audio assets into searchable musical units, allowing the system to filter and select compatible materials before any composition happens.

Arrangement

Using the indexed data, the system generates a high-level musical framework composed of chapters, sections, and patterns. Loop selection and placement are algorithmically determined within defined constraints, balancing randomness with musical logic.

Mixing

Once arranged, selected loops are automatically aligned in tempo and pitch, then mixed together into a coherent musical output. Time-stretching and pitch adjustment ensure rhythmic and harmonic consistency, while predefined mixing rules maintain balance across musical elements. This stage translates abstract structure into continuous audio.

Adjustment

In the final stage, the system allows real-time or rule-based adjustments based on user input or contextual needs. Parameters such as playback speed, filters, and arrangement density can be modified without regenerating the entire piece.

Outcome

The result is a scalable functional music system capable of generating long-form, structured compositions with consistent quality. The system enables both automation and creative control.

Moment

This project explores a modular system for generating functional music at scale. The system is designed to automatically assemble, arrange, mix, and adapt music loops based on structured metadata, enabling large quantities of music to be generated efficiently while remaining musically coherent and controllable.

Year

2025

Year

2025

Role

Music Technology

Role

Music Technology

Client

HARMAN International, Samsung

Client

HARMAN International, Samsung

Timeline

2 months

Timeline

2 months

Moment

This project explores a modular system for generating functional music at scale. The system is designed to automatically assemble, arrange, mix, and adapt music loops based on structured metadata, enabling large quantities of music to be generated efficiently while remaining musically coherent and controllable.

Year

2025

Role

Music Technology

Client

HARMAN International, Samsung

Timeline

2 months