Musico

What Musico is

Musico is an engine rather than a song site. Developed by Musica Combinatoria, it combines conventional machine learning with symbolic methods to produce copyright-free music in real time, driven by gesture, movement, code or vocal input, with control ranging from semi-assisted to fully automatic.

What you can do with it

• Drive music live from movement or gestures
• Build soundtracks that react to events
• Work from code inputs to generate score material
• Choose how much control the system takes
• Experiment from the perspective of a non-musician

Who it is for

• Interactive performance artists
• Game developers designing reactive audio
• Media artists building installations

What to watch out for

• Integration work is real: expect to embed and tune rather than use it as an app
• Copyright-free claims need matching against the licence you licence
• Real-time generation can be unpredictable in live settings; rehearse thoroughly
• Complex musical expectations may exceed what reactive systems deliver