Finally, they visited Niam, an artist and student at the University of Lille, to sing in the lyrics. Her voice is combined with a synthetic one. As music lovers, the team members sometimes found it difficult to let go of the strange lyrics and chords and illogical structure created by the AI. According to them, this is where the core of the collaboration with AI lies: to make a song right, the human plays with the AI through the song writing, and, in the end, perform the final touch.
Three of the team members are connected to the university in Lille. Louis Bigo was familiar with AI musical technology and studied the trance genre. Mathieu Giraud specialises in bioinformatics and harmony, while Gianluca Micchi has a background in physics and is now focused on deep learning. Florence Levé and Richard Groult are in the Université de Picardie Jules Verne. Florence Levé has a background in combinatorics, meaning the mathematics of counting, and Richard Groult in algorithms on texts. The team members jointly work in music information retrieval, a research field that focuses on the understanding and use of music data.