Where Music Connects Generations

Now & Then Jukebox revolutionizes the concept jukebox by implementing AI to foster intergenerational connections in a playful way. By merging song inputs from people of various age groups into an endless track, it encourages sharing personal stories and emotions, addressing the lack of engagement between different generations. 

Imagine the jukebox in a bar. One person after another wishes for a song via audio input. The AI adjusts bpm and key, and splits and recombines songs, while the user has the freedom to emphasize one of four aspects: mood, genre, lyrics, or tonality. 

The Now&Then jukebox is an attempt to show how AI can be a positive attribute to future products. 
Initiated at Design Investigations, University of Applied Arts Vienna in collaboration with Google Research.

Brief
Design a personal AI agent. This ‘agent’ could be anything you wish. What values does it have, and whose values does it align to? What relationships does it enable, short circuit, or change? Importantly consider what possibilities this agent opens up in your life, in your relationships, in the world around you. But, it is equally important to consider the unintended, negative consequences of such an entity. (Univ Prof. Anab Jain with Team, Grayson Earle and Alison Lentz, Google Mural Lead)
Our teams main question: Could we create a space where generations meet and connect with the help of AI?