Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix ... The "club of 27" resuscitates thanks to artificial intelligence

Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix… all have in common to belong to the sadly named “c

”, artists who died at the age of 27, most of whom suffered from depression.

But what would their music be like today if they hadn't left so early?

To answer this question, the Canadian organization Over The Bridge, which helps music professionals with mental health problems, asked an artificial intelligence to generate songs that may have belonged to their repertoire.

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Entitled

, this posthumous compilation was created to raise awareness of psychological disorders, such as depression and isolation, which some musicians suffer from.

“

,” said Sean O'Connor, board member of Over The Bridge, in Rolling Stone magazine.

Machines at the service of man

Created by Magenta, an artificial intelligence belonging to Google, these new songs resuscitate vanished icons of music.

To do this, Over The Bridge has entrusted an algorithm with thirty songs per artist, asking him to analyze both the lyrics, the vocal melodies, through the choice of notes and guitar riffs.

According to Sean O'Connor, Nirvana would have been the most difficult group to apprehend.

Unlike Jimi Hendrix, and his very identifiable tracks such as

or

, “

”.

A perilous challenge that gave birth to the song

, whose instrumental part varies between the universe of

and

.

The organization also used another generic AI program, called an artificial neural network, to create the lyrics for the songs.

“

” explained the organization's representative, adding that the team then had to select lyrics in order to build the tracks consistently.

Finally, the voices were lent by vocal look-alikes.

As on the title

, performed by singer Eric Hogan, from the Nirvana tribute group called

.

For the rest, all is well the work of computers.

And the result is quite convincing.