Human Creativity Augmentation

We expand human creativity.
Not by replacing it.
By making it bigger.

We custom-design MIDI datasets. We hire composers and media designers. We build computational strategies that help humans discover what they didn't know they could create.

"We are not building a music generator.

We are building a digital luthier—

a maker of fine tools for fine artists."

MUSI-CO Founding Philosophy · Custom Datasets · Human-Centered · Compositional Intelligence

Methodology & Compositional Philosophy

We design computational strategies for human creativity—not to replace artistic judgment, but to expand the boundary of what humans can discover about their own work.

When a jazz musician encounters a harmonic pattern they never generated from their own preferences. When a folk ensemble discovers variations on patterns they thought they'd exhausted. When a student composer learns that the algorithm recognized something in their voice they didn't know was there.

That's what we build for. Not efficiency. Novelty. Radical experimentation. The readiness to be surprised by what you're capable of.

Custom Dataset Design

We hire real composers and media designers to build datasets from human choice, not internet scraping. Every note comes from intentional artistic decision. No shortcuts.

Collaborative Learning

The algorithm doesn't decide. You do. It suggests. It reveals patterns. It expands the search space. You choose what matters. Together: novelty neither could make alone.

On Your Terms

Local processing. Your data stays yours. No cloud harvesting. No black-box training. No opaque outputs. You own what you create.

Beyond Statistics. Built by Composers.

Standard generative systems optimize for statistical likelihood. They learn surface patterns from massive, unlicensed datasets. MUSI-CO inverts this entirely.

Our engine was designed by people who understand both music theory and machine learning. It reasons about compositional structure, not probabilistic buckets. It understands that you resolve a seventh upward instead of down for a reason—and learns that reason as a category of meaning, not as a random pattern.

01 — MIDI Fidelity

Complete Control Over Sound

We generate high-fidelity MIDI, not flat audio. Total control: swap instruments, tweak velocities, rearrange notes, reprocess, iterate. Direct DAW integration with the nuance of human performance.

02 — Compositional Logic

Semantic Sensitivity

The algorithm learns your decision-making at the level of harmonic preference, melodic contour, rhythmic fingerprint. Not statistical buckets. Categories of meaning.

03 — Ethical Training Data

Handmade Datasets from Master Composers

Small Data, Deep Intelligence. We hire composers to build intentional datasets. Every piece in our training corpus was a deliberate choice by a skilled artist. No scraping. No shortcuts.

Proprietary Methodology

04 — Local-First Architecture

Run Entirely On Your Hardware

Process complex generative tasks without an internet connection. Full capability, offline, on the hardware of your choice. Your creativity, your data, your machine.

Products & Platforms

Mobile tools and systems built on our generative engine. Each one is both a product and a showcase of MIDI-generation technology—available in beta as we gather feedback from real musicians and creators.

Wellness · iOS

Mindkestra

Personalised orchestral soundscapes for mindfulness, focus, and restoration. Adaptive music that responds to your mental state—neuroscience meets composition.

Fitness · iOS

MusicFit

Create the ultimate workout soundtrack with an app that generates music in real-time sync with your body's movement. Bespoke beats for bespoke performance.

Performance · iOS

Impro AI

Control MUSI-CO's generative engine with intuitive gestures for live performances that are never twice the same. Real-time, expressive, endlessly fresh.

VST Plugin · Mac · Free Beta

Impro BEAT

Bare-bones UI preliminary release. Free to use. No implied license granted upon download. Available via the MusiCo website.

VST Plugin · Mac · Free Beta

Impro VST

Bare-bones UI preliminary release. Free to use. No implied license granted upon download. Request access via the MusiCo website.

Hear the Archive.
Classic MUSI-CO Compositions.

Listen on SoundCloud ↗

Tools & Platforms

A suite of purpose-built systems for composers, media creators, game developers, and wellbeing practitioners who want to expand what they can create.

Core Platform

Any2Music / Demo

The flagship engine. Feed it video, image, or emotional metadata — receive perfectly structured MIDI that reflects your content's narrative logic.

Open Demo Portal →

Generation

GenLooper

Generative loop construction powered by intentional MIDI models. Evolving, non-repetitive loops ideal for ambient scoring, game audio, installation work.

Open GenLooper →

Performance

LiveAI

Real-time AI music generation for live performance. Low-latency local processing — no internet dependency, no stage failures. Responsive musical accompaniment.

Open LiveAI →

Listening & Curation

Listen

A framework for understanding what your music does. Analysis, pattern recognition, compositional insight—turning generation into learning.

Open Listen →

Research · Measurement

HAICU — Novelty Measure

Human-AI Creative Understanding: our research framework for measuring musical novelty — how far a human–machine co-composition departs from what either could have produced alone, and how that distance can be evaluated with rigour rather than taste.

Open HAICU →

Archive · Audio

Music Archive

Historical generative compositions, early experiments, and demo recordings from MUSI-CO's development journey—available freely on SoundCloud.

Listen on SoundCloud →

Ready to hear the difference?
All services, one portal.

Open Demo Portal

Strategic Alliances

MUSI-CO participates in a broader ecosystem of technology, law, and open-source intelligence. Our partnerships reflect our commitment to ethical AI, legal compliance, and collaborative innovation.

Ethics · Law · AI Act · GDPR

AssistiveLawTech

Our strategic partner for Ethical AI governance, AI Act compliance, and GDPR alignment. AssistiveLawTech provides the legal intelligence that ensures every MUSI-CO system is designed to perform *and* to comply—transparently, rigorously, by design.

Visit assistivelawtech.com →

Open Source · LLM · SLM · Integration

Super AI Studio

MUSI-CO actively participates in the Super AI Studio open-source community—contributing to and integrating state-of-the-art LLM and SLM architectures into our music generation pipeline. This keeps us at the frontier of local, open, and efficient AI.

Visit superaistudio.com →

Academic Research Collaborations

Machine Learning · Generative MIDI · UNIFI · Ongoing

Prof. Paolo Frasconi — Università degli Studi di Firenze

An ongoing research collaboration spanning nearly a decade of generative MIDI development. From early rhythm models (2017) through VAE/GAN interpolation (2018) and CONLON at ISMIR (2020), to forthcoming diffusion-based approaches (April 2026).

2017 — Origin

EDM Drum Pattern Generation

Early explorations of generative models for EDM drum patterns.

Workshop Paper →

2018 — Formalisation

VAE/GAN Genre Interpolation

VAE/GAN-based generation with smooth genre transitions.

arXiv Paper →

2020 — ISMIR

CONLON

Lossless format, Wasserstein autoencoders, latent-space trajectory generation.

CONLON Paper →

April 2026 — Forthcoming Publication

From Latent Trajectories to Diffusion: The Next Generation

The forthcoming paper replaces autoencoder latent-space interpolation with diffusion models. This shift offers richer modelling of the full MIDI distribution, better handling of polyphonic multi-instrument structure, and more controllable conditioning across style, genre, and harmonic context.

Urban Mobility · Assistive Tech · Multimedia · Montreal Polytechnic · Ongoing

Prof. Francesco Ciari — Polytechnique Montréal

An ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration applying MUSI-CO's core technology building blocks beyond music—into advanced simulation strategies for assistive urban mobility. Developing adaptive multimedia storytelling systems for accessible navigation and wayfinding experiences in complex urban environments.

Your IP. Your Hardware.
Your Privacy.

In an era of data harvesting, MUSI-CO stands for the Local AI movement. Your creative work belongs to you — not to a server farm, not to a training corpus, and not to a cloud provider's terms of service.

01

On-Premise Power

Process complex generative tasks entirely without an internet connection. Full capability, offline, on your hardware of choice.

02

Data Sovereignty

Your compositions and media assets never touch our servers. What you create is yours—completely, legally, permanently.

03

AI Act & GDPR Aligned

In collaboration with AssistiveLawTech, MUSI-CO's architecture is designed for full compliance with the EU AI Act and GDPR—privacy and ethics baked in from day one.

04

Ethical Training Data

Our models were never trained on your work without consent. Every dataset is licensed, human-composed, and fully documented. Transparency is a foundation, not a feature.

The Craft
of Code & Composition.

MUSI-CO was founded on the belief that AI should be a digital luthier—a maker of fine tools for fine artists. We reject the "one-click" commodification of music. Instead, we provide a sophisticated framework where human composition and algorithmic precision coexist as equals.

"We custom-hire composers and media designers to build datasets. We embed ethical choice into every layer of code. We believe creativity expands when humans and algorithms collaborate as partners, not when one dominates the other."

Our team unites composers, music theorists, engineers, and strategists under one roof—a rare combination that produces tools no pure-technology company could build. Every model we ship has been listened to, critiqued, and refined by people who have spent decades studying what makes music move people.

We are not anti-AI. We are pro-craft. The distinction matters enormously.

The People Behind
MUSI-CO.

A rare convergence of composers, engineers, educators, and strategists united by a single conviction: that AI music should be made by people who love music—and who understand that creativity expands when humans and machines collaborate as equals.

Founder & CEO

Lorenzo Brusci

CTO

Stefano Imperiale

Chief Scientist

Alessandro Tibo

CFO & Legal Affairs

Ferdinando Manenti

Technology Integration & AI Usability

Nimrod Adar

MusicFit Division Manager

Wojtek Friediger

MIDI Music Dataset Designer & Music Specialist

Francesco Capanni

MetaClassical Music Specialist

Stefan Roslmair

Media Researcher

Myroslav Trofymuk

Co-founder · Algorithms, Prototyping & Dataset Design

Simone Conforti

Educational Advisor & Co-founder

Valentijn Borghuis

Urban Design & Media Architecture

Danilo Capasso

COO

Andrea Marinelli

Enquiries

info@musi-co.com

Press, Assets &
Repository

Journalists, partners, and collaborators can access our full media repository — audio samples, visual assets, technical documentation, and press releases. For interviews and partnership enquiries, use the contact details below.

A Decade of Listening Machines

From the first transcoding paper to datasets designed by composers, the MUSI-CO story in a few blocks. The details, the workshops and the apps along the way are told on the MUSI-CO Blog.

2015–2017

Origins & the First Transcoding Paper

MUSI-CO is born; the first transcoding paper and early experiments applying AI to audio ask how one medium can become music.

Lorenzo Brusci · founderSimone Conforti · algorithms & prototypingPaolo Frasconi · AI

2017

The Turn to MIDI

An early, decisive choice of symbolic music over raw sound, so that every generated note stays editable, legible and ownable.

Paolo FrasconiAlessandro Tibo
EDM drum patterns paper →

2018–2019

CIROX — The AI Drummer

A generative synthetic drummer trained on a composer-designed dataset. Never published, kept in our archive, it still plays live with us; inside IMPRO AI it orchestrated what was then an algorithmic synth band.

Luca Canciello · dataset composerPaolo Frasconi · AIAlessandro Tibo · AILuca Angioloni · ML & music

2019 →

Naples Apple Developer Academy

Annual seminars from 2019 onwards, a marked and continuous presence built around our iOS apps IMPRO, IMPRO AI and SONG.

Lorenzo BrusciMUSI-CO teamAcademy students
Read more on the blog →

2019

MusicFit

Music generated in real time, in sync with the body's movement: the engine leaves the studio and enters training and industrial sonification.

Wojtek Friediger · MusicFit
Visit musicfit.eu →

2020

Soundive.ai — Video to Music

A working Video-to-Music system spun off as its own venture: a market experiment that was, perhaps, more American than European in its timing.

Lorenzo Brusci · concept & name

2020

CONLON at ISMIR · Huawei Europe, Munich

A lossless pianoroll format and latent-space trajectories presented at ISMIR; in the same year, high-level seminars with Huawei Europe in Munich.

Luca AngioloniValentijn Borghuis · methodologyLorenzo BrusciPaolo Frasconi
CONLON paper →

2022

Extremix — Dowland at Concertgebouw Brugge

Five electronic producers bring their own MIDI into MUSI-CO's latent space, populated with generations from Dowland's Lachrimae, and turn it into a futuristic reflection of the original, performed live in May 2022.

Valentijn Borghuis · coachFive electronic producers
Read the story →

2022

Mindkestra

Personalised orchestral environments for focus, rest and care, from the app to immersive therapeutic spaces.

Wojtek Friediger · Mindkestra
Visit mindkestra.com →

2024

Any Media to Music

The portal that turns video, image and text into structured MIDI reaches its current form, alongside LiveAI, Listen and HAICU.

Stefano Imperiale · IT manager, CTO since 2024
Open the portal →

2025

GLooper

Generative looping from intentional MIDI models: evolving, non-repetitive material for scoring, games, installations and sonification.

Nimrod Adar · GLooper onwards
Open GenLooper →

2025–2026

Datasets by Design & Urban Storytelling

Custom MIDI datasets built with composers and media designers; the HAICU Novelty Measure; urban storytelling with Polytechnique Montréal; a diffusion paper forthcoming.

Francesco Capanni · dataset designSimone Conforti · dataset designDanilo Capasso · urban storytelling, Super AI StudioFrancesco CiariPaolo Frasconi
Open HAICU →
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Impro

Preliminary release • Free to use

VST Plugin • Mac

Bare-bones UI version!

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