If it's not already on your radar, Aimi is a music platform that uses artificial intelligence to fundamentally challenge the way our favorite art form is created, consumed and monetized. Led by Will Saul, the founder of Aus Records, the UK house and techno label, Aimi has quickly become a new home for cutting-edge musicians and producers.
Through the premium Aimi+ service, currently available for free in mobile app stores for a limited period of time, artists like Tensnake, Soul Clap, Shanti Celeste, Roska, Steve Spacek and many more have created dozens of infinite, adaptable and fully customizable listening experiences. Here's how it works: artists create and provide Aimi with albums of new music from unheard material. These are not traditional 3-5 minute songs, but a wide range of non-linear ideas and motifs that would otherwise not fit into traditional streaming services.
Through creative parameters set by the artist, Aimi's artificial intelligence combines the audio pieces into constantly evolving compositions that reinvent themselves through real-time listener feedback. When listeners press play on Aimi, they hear a dynamic cross between a DJ mix and a new artist album. But each listen is unique, presenting a familiar sonic theme that is further enhanced by new complexities and infinite arrangements, free of beginnings and endings.
English drum & bass producer dBridge explained, "I follow a few different projects that involve artificial intelligence and was intrigued by what Aimi can do. Would she make similar musical choices that I would make? Can I come away inspired by these choices and learn from those I personally wouldn't think of making? I was surprised by the results and I think it will happen to you too."
