SUGARBYTE Idol Project

We are exploring the interplay between restriction and freedom that comes with the normalisation of AI in the music industry. Our initial idea was to create avatars for our own virtual idol group which we were planning on pairing with voice/music synthesizing software - replacing  real instruments and voices with computer generated sounds. This is a prototype, a start, to see how far we could go.

In the future we would like to also have AI music made from creating an algorithm in a neuron network.

We built our characters in vroid with customized hairstyles and clothing. The characters, pre-made dance moves and stage that was brought together using Mikumikudance. Mikumikudance, also known as mmd, is a freeware animation program that lets users animate and create 3D animated movies, originally produced for the Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku.

SugarByte Idol Project was shown at the French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound IRCAM at the 2022 forum, in the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Collaborators: Xinyi Chen, Arianna Savore, Zafirah Mudasiru, Leping Ji, Aggie Dolan