Jukedeck

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Jukedeck
Type of business Private
Founded2012 in London
Founder(s) Ed Newton-Rex
Patrick Stobbs
Industry Synthetic media
Algorithmic composition

Jukedeck was a British technology company founded in 2012. [1] It built a website that let users create royalty-free music using artificial intelligence. [2]

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History

Ed Newton-Rex started building the first version of Jukedeck’s algorithmic composition system in 2010, [3] and founded the company in 2012. [4] In 2014, Patrick Stobbs left Google to join as co-founder. [2] Stobbs and Newton-Rex had met at the age of eight when they were both choristers in King's College Choir, and they had later been at Cambridge University together. [5] [2]

In 2015, Jukedeck launched a website that let people generate original, royalty-free music for use in videos. Users could set parameters including genre, instruments and duration, and specific climactic moments in the music; they could then generate a song in around 20 seconds that they could download for non-commercial or commercial use, with prices ranging from free for personal projects to $199 per song to purchase the copyright. [6] [5] [7] [2] [8]

Newton-Rex’s original algorithmic composition program was a rule-based system in which note and chord probabilities were hard-coded. [9] By 2017, this had been replaced with a two-tiered approach, in which artificial neural networks generated musical compositions which were converted to audio using an automated music production program. Music could be generated in a number of genres, from folk to electronica. [5]

The website was used to create over 1 million pieces of music, and brands that used it included Coca-Cola, Google, UKTV, and the Natural History Museum, London. [10] In 2018, Jukedeck’s technology was used to compose the music for K-pop girl group Spica for a performance at a concert at the Blue Square Concert Hall in Seoul. [11] [3] Singer Taryn Southern also used Jukedeck to create backing tracks for her songs. [3]

Jukedeck grew to a team of 20 people and raised £2.5M in funding. [8] In 2019, it was acquired by ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, for an undisclosed sum. [12] [13] [14]

Awards

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