The AI takeover of jobs could soon hit the music industry, if a new album composed and produced by a robot is anything to go by.

In what is believed to be a world first, software programs have provided all of the instrumentation and production for the upcoming album I AM AI.

It is a collaboration between pop singer Taryn Southern and a series of machine learning apps, including Amper.

The AI music composer, producer, and performer has previously released individual tracks, but never an entire album.

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The AI takeover of jobs previously done by people could soon hit the music industry, if a new album composed and produced by machines is anything to go by. It is a collaboration with pop singer Taryn Southern and Amper, an AI music composer, producer, and performer (pictured)

HOW IT WORKS Amper allows you to customise the music it creates. Users first select a mood that will define your piece, from 'dark dramatic' and 'tension atmospheric' to 'simple percussion.' They can also select a style, like 'cinematic', to further modify the track's features. Users then select a track length, and the app will render your selection. You can then tweak the software's original output, before rendering the final version for professional broadcast. The process of generating the original composition and creating the finished product takes a matter of seconds. Advertisement

Amper is the creation of a team of professional musicians and technology experts.

The startup firm was created using £3.1 million ($4 million) in funding raised by film composer Drew Silverstein and colleagues Sam Estes and Michael Hobe

Its aim was to create an affordable and royalty-free way to provide the music for creative projects on a tight budget, including commercials and short online videos.

Anyone can test the service for free as part of a beta roll-out.

Ms Southern used the software to create instrumental backing for the lyrics and melodies she wrote for her upcoming album, expected later this year.

The singer gave Amper guidelines, including the speed of the song, key signature and preferred instruments, and AI then produced a track to these specifications.

The first track created through this process, Break Free, was released yesterday.

Speaking to CNN Tech, Ms Southern said: 'In a funny way, I have a new song-writing partner who doesn't get tired and has this endless knowledge of music making.

'But I feel like I get to own my vision; I iterate and choose what I like and don't like.

'There's a lot more control.

'In the past, I'd get into traps of writing songs in a given style or chords I know I like.

'When working with AI music, everything it spits at me is a surprise.'

Amper's creators say it is the first time that chord structures, harmonies and instrumentals on a professionally released track have been entirely created by an AI, without alteration.

Amper allows you to customise the music it creates.

Users first select a mood that will define their piece, from 'dark dramatic' and 'tension atmospheric' to 'simple percussion.'

They can also select a style, like 'cinematic', to further modify the track's features.

Users then select a track length, and the app will render their selection.

Amper (pictured) was to created as an affordable and royalty-free way to provide the music for creative projects on a tight budget, including commercials and short online videos

Users first select a mood that will define their piece, from 'dark dramatic' and 'tension atmospheric' to 'simple percussion' (left). They can also select a style, like 'cinematic', to further modify the track's features before rendering an original composition (right)

You can then tweak the software's original output, before rendering the final version for professional broadcast (pictured). The process of generating the original composition and creating the finished product takes a matter of seconds

Taryn Southern (pictured) used the software to create instrumental backing for the lyrics and melodies she wrote for her upcoming album, expected later this year. The singer gave Amper guidelines, including the speed of the song, key signature and preferred instruments

They can then tweak the software's original output, before rendering the final version for professional broadcast.

The process of generating the original composition and creating the finished product takes a matter of seconds.

Writing the structure of the song is now 20 times faster than when collaborating with human musicians, the former 2004 American Idol competitor says.

And the technique could soon become a staple of music production, Amper's creators say.

Speaking to Tech Crunch in March, the firm's CEO Mr Silverstein said: 'One of our core beliefs as a company is that the future of music is going to be created in the collaboration between humans and AI.

'We want that collaborative experience to propel the creative process forward.

'If we're going to do that, we have to teach computers to be intrinsically creative.'