WISE Panel Video: AI – Musician’s Friend or Foe?

by admin | Feb 9, 2021 | Company, Music Industry

WISE hosted a virtual panel moderated by Kalam Ali (Co-Founder, Sound Obsessed) to connect music industry experts and have an open discussion about AI technologies adoption for artists. Among the guests there were Rania Kim (Creative Director, Sound Obsessed & Portrait XO), Harry Yeff/Reeps One (Director, Composer, and Artist, R1000 Studios), Heiko Hoffmann (VP Artist, Beatport) and Markus Schwarzer (CEO, Cyanite).

All united by their interest in music and the future ahead of it, they shared their views on the different access points for AI to be embraced for what it is in the bigger picture: a solution to improve performances, to enhance the UX and to give inspiration within music production.

Education is the means to ensure a deeper understanding of this technology, now still highly questioned as damaging to connection people have with music. A realistic assessment of what opportunities there are for artists in implementing AI and, at the same time, what the risks of improper use are, can break these fear barriers.

Finding a middle ground between men and the autonomy of AI is key, especially in these days where a digital approach is often the only feasible way to make life feel as normal as it should be.

The extended video of the talk is available on Youtube.

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Creative City Berlin interviews Cyanite

by admin | Jan 7, 2021 | Company, Interview

Photo: © Stadtmarketing Mannheim GmbH Nadja Capellmann

Creative City Berlin sat with us to look into Cyanite’s business model, from the most primitive ideas behind the project till what became the most current version of our AI ( that you can try here) , aiming at finding music based on refined algorithms.

The article outlines how Cyanite can add value to a wide range of companies working with big music catalogs, by facilitating complex procedures, such as manual music tagging and time-consuming searches for songs, to ecourage a better outcome when working with music professionally.

The tool is intended for various customers, spacing from music publishers to radio stations to DJ platforms, contended among an exponentially growing competition, driven by the increasing demand for AI solutions in the music industry.

CCB seizes the opportunity to dig into one of the hot topics when it comes to AI – human versus machine and the skepticism towards such an elevated type of technology. What stands out is how AI is not positioned to eliminate a human imprint on music selection, but rather assist where the sole human force can not do alone efficiently.

Check out the full interview for more insights by two of Cyanite’s co-founders here in German and English.

Cyanite enters TOP100 of the fastest growing German startups in July 2020

by Jakob | Aug 26, 2020 | Company

In celebration of Germany’s impressive innovation ecosystem and the entrepreneurs that make it so, GlassDollar curates a monthly list of the 100 fastest-growing startups in the country. The ranking is based on an own invented methodology that includes headcount, funding, web analytics, and social media following into account. Check out their full methodology here.

After announcing Mediengruppe RTL and SWR as our customers, the Glassdollar team reached out to Cyanite to congratulate on entering the ranking in July 2020. You can check out the full ranking here.

Glassdollar website: https://glassdollar.com/

Cyanite entering at position 75.

New SWR music app uses recommendation algorithms from Cyanite

by Jakob | Aug 24, 2020 | Company

About SWR’s new radio app

A music/radio app developed jointly by Südwestrundfunk (SWR) and the Berlin digital agency TBO will enable listeners to fast-forward and rewind through radio programs and to skip songs. For the first time, the decision as to which song is played after a skip is not made by humans but by a machine: by the recommendation algorithm from Cyanite. This is SWR’s response to the competition from streaming providers and is the release of a user-centered radio of the future.

SWR’s promotion video for their new radio app

How Cyanite’s algorithms come into play

Using a logic specially developed for SWR, the algorithm selects the song that the user is most likely to like. Step by step, past skip decisions of the user are then to be incorporated into the music recommendations, thus personalizing the music program on the app. The collaboration between SWR and Cyanite has developed in the SWR audio lab, where future technologies for radio and the involvement of listeners in the radio experience are the focus.

The shuffle button that makes Cyanite’s algorithm come into action

I want to apply AI to my app as well – how can I get started?

Contact us with any questions about our frontend and API services via mail@cyanite.ai. You can also directly book a web session with Cyanite co-founder Markus here.

If you want to get a first grip on how Cyanite works, you can also register for our free web app to analyze music and try out similarity searches without any coding needed.

For more of our thoughts on how to apply Cyanite to your database, check these out:

3 Ways to Display and Integrate AI Search Results in Your Music Platform

How to use the Cyanite API to analyze music on genre, mood, bpm, key and more

Free white paper: 8 tips how to organize your music catalogue better