MUSI-CO — Human Creativity Augmentation
Human Creativity Augmentation · Florence

WE EXPAND
HUMAN
CREATIVITY

A SUITE OF TOOLS
AND STRATEGIES

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.

MIDI
FIRST

Every tool begins with composer-built MIDI datasets. Not scraped. Written by musicians on the team.

CLF

Co-Learning Factor — ratio of human decision to algorithmic suggestion, tracked every session.

LOCAL
AI

Your creativity, your data, your machine. No cloud harvesting. No black-box training. Full offline capability.

Core Engine · SOTA · Open Demo Portal
ALL
MEDIA2
MUSIC
⬡ Patented Method

State-of-the-Art Cross-Ontological method for the conversion of any media — video, image, text, emotional metadata — into structured, generative MIDI music. Not audio matching. Not style transfer. A semantic bridge between the ontology of any source medium and the ontology of musical composition — pitch, rhythm, harmonic logic, density, arc.

Open Demo Portal ↗
What it does
ANY SOURCE
→ GENERATIVE MIDI

Feed it video, image, text or emotional metadata. Receive perfectly structured MIDI that reflects your content's narrative logic, emotional arc, and formal structure — not a random audio texture, a composed result.

Try the demo →
The method
CROSS-ONTOLOGICAL
TRANSCODING

The engine does not match audio. It reads the semantic structure of a source medium — its spatial composition, temporal arc, emotional weight — and maps it onto the parametric space of music: register, density, harmonic tension, rhythmic fingerprint. Patented. Unique to MUSI-CO.

Inquire about licensing →
"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
Mission — Methodology & Compositional Philosophy
Mission

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.

Technology — Beyond Statistics. Built by Composers.
Technology

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
Proprietary Methodology

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.

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.

Apps — Products & Platforms Mobile tools and systems built on our generative engine
Wellness · iOS
MIND
KESTRA

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

Fitness · iOS
MUSIC
FIT

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. Historical generative recordings.

Listen on SoundCloud ↗
Services — Tools & Platforms
Partners — Strategic Alliances
EthicsLawAI ActGDPR
ASSISTIVE
LAWTECH

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.

assistivelawtech.com →
Open SourceLLMSLMIntegration
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. Strategic consulting for European PMIs. EU-radically compliant. Vendor-agnostic technical architecture.

superaistudio.com →
Machine LearningGenerative MIDIUNIFIOngoing

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 / Pubblicazione in Arrivo
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 MobilityAssistive TechMultimediaMontréal PolytechnicOngoing

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.

Privacy — Your IP. Your Hardware. Your Privacy.
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.

About — The Craft of Code & Composition
About

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.

Team — The People Behind MUSI-CO
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
Co-Learning Lab — Human Machine Field Study · Crossmedia Tooling Suite 11 tools · live
Field Research · Crossmedia Tooling · 2024–ongoing

HUMAN
MACHINE
FIELD STUDY

A suite of open experiments in co-learning — the process by which a human and an algorithm build shared competence through interaction. Nothing here is finished. Authorship is tracked, novelty is measured, the composer stays in the loop. Each tool is an independent fork; every fork links directly to a live instrument.

CLF
Co-Learning Factor — ratio of human decision to algorithmic suggestion per session
∂H
Decision distance from model prior — how far your choice moved from the machine's expectation
11
Active forks — gesture, vision, body, space, audio, platform, live events
HAICU
Human and AI Compose Unite — the novelty measure embedded in every tool
PPlatform
PRACTICE
MAPPING
/platform

Six profiles — theatre and cinema directors, choreographers, media artists, galleries and collectors. Maps a practice from its conscious and submerged sources, verifies the rights chain, and reads formal divergence against a public, versioned baseline. Deterministic local scoring; AVA narration suspended; the material never leaves the browser. 6 profiles · 2 polarities: mirror vs lens · P0–P8 mapping · IP matrix · no-training default · per-profile agents.

musico-syntagma-suite.netlify.app/platform ↗
01Vision
VISUAL
DRAWING
CONTROL

Draw the sound. Four stem layers emerge by quantity; the tempo ruler sets BPM by horizontal position and hue. Generate re-rolls all layers chromatically. Rec: audio · MIDI · audio-video.

/visual-control
02Gesture
GESTURAL
CONTROL

Camera + voice. One finger up triggers a cell; fist generates; two fingers mute. Both open palms set BPM. Palm close/open pulses a jellyfish filter. Thumb-up shaken re-randomises. Genre select changes the library folder.

/gestural-control
03Audio
THE
BEETHOVEN
MACHINE

Five string-quartet movements cut into four instrument cells. Each plays the score linearly. GLITCH axis slides from pure form to granular synthesis. A text prompt steers it all; a drum cell adds drumming underneath.

/beethoven-machine
04Gesture
YOUR
GESTURAL
CONTROL

Record your own gestures on camera, name them, bind them to any control or sound-processing action. Every detected gesture is re-mappable: trigger, generate, mute, solo, loop, reverse, transpose, filter, tempo, reverb, delay. Saved in browser, runs on-device.

/your-gestural-control
05Space
INHABITING
MUSIC

Five Le Corbusier fundamentals — pilotis, free plan, free façade, ribbon windows, roof garden — drawn as radical primary volumes in 3D, each bound to a macro. Step INSIDE (IMMERSIVE) for a first-person walk; the song deconstructs into granular, time-stretched, spatialised sound.

/inhabiting-music
06Body
BOXING
CONTROL

Box the grid. Jab depth (palm span) maps to sound family — AIR / BODY / IMPACT. Lateral position picks the cell. Hysteresis and smoothing prevent jitter. Live readout shows depth, bin, cell and family per hit.

/boxing-control
07Body
VISUAL
BODY

Symmetry answers. Repetition rewards. DRONE is the safe default — rest, go steady or move asymmetrically and it stays quiet. Move symmetrically: consistent tonal reaction. Repeat: analogue arpeggios and harmony grow out of the drone. Analogue synths only.

/visual-body
08Gesture
SYNTAGMA
GESTURAL
KEYBOARD

Built on the SYNTAGMA DAW stack. Four cells, per-cell routing. Slow fingers = sustained legato; fast fingers = staccato arpeggios. Waves → smooth ±10 BPM per cell. Swipe → reverb, sustain, pedal per hand. Piano / electric piano / vibraphone / xylophone.

/syntagma-gestural
09Space
URBAN
OPEN
ARCHIVE

Open platform for multimedia stories about Italy — beginning in Scicli, Sicily. Pin a spot on OSM, upload photos, video, audio, PDFs (max 10 MB). Local IndexedDB archive. AI topic agent queued for future processing.

/assist-urban-open
10Live
COLLECTIVE
PROMPT

Shared console for collective prompt texting during live and online events. The audience writes musical instructions; an LLM filter panel weighs safety, relevance, playability and freshness. Accepted prompts become a synchronised score for live musicians, or a spatial soundscape for improvisers. Rendered live in WebAudio; no text leaves the browser.

/collective-prompt

All tools run on-device · no data leaves the browser · licensed MIDI datasets only · EU AI Act & GDPR aligned

Open full suite at musico-syntagma-suite.netlify.app ↗
History — A Decade of Listening Machines
→
ORIGINS &
TRANSCODING
Lorenzo Brusci
Simone Conforti
Paolo Frasconi
2015–17
2017
THE TURN
TO MIDI
P. Frasconi
A. Tibo
CIROX —
AI DRUMMER
L. Canciello · dataset
P. Frasconi · AI
A. Tibo · AI
L. Angioloni · ML
2018–19
2019
MUSICFIT
+ NAPOLI
Apple Academy seminars begin. MusicFit launches.
Wojtek Friediger
musicfit.eu →
CONLON
AT ISMIR
Wasserstein AE, latent-space trajectories. Huawei Europe Munich.
L. Angioloni
V. Borghuis
P. Frasconi
CONLON paper →
2020
SOUNDIVE.AI
Video-to-Music system, spun off as own venture.
Lorenzo Brusci
EXTREMIX —
BRUGGE
Dowland's Lachrimae · live · May 2022.
V. Borghuis · coach
5 producers
Read →
2022
MIND
KESTRA
Wojtek Friediger
mindkestra.com →
ANY MEDIA
TO MUSIC
LiveAI · Listen · HAICU reach current form.
Stefano Imperiale · CTO
Open portal →
2024
2025
SYNTAGMA /
GLOOPER
Nimrod Adar
Syntagma → GLoope →
DATASETS
BY DESIGN
HAICU Novelty Measure · urban storytelling · diffusion paper forthcoming.
F. Capanni
S. Conforti
D. Capasso
F. Ciari
P. Frasconi
HAICU →
2025–26
Media — Press, Assets & Repository
Demo Portal
ALL IN 2 MUSIC

Full interactive demo suite for all MUSI-CO platforms and services.

Open Demo Portal →
Audio Archive
SOUND
CLOUD

Historical generative compositions, demos, and early MUSI-CO recordings.

Listen on SoundCloud →
Editorial
BLOG

Technical writing, industry commentary, and research updates.

Read the Blog →
Contact
GENERAL
ENQUIRIES

Interviews, partnerships, speaking engagements, and collaborations.

info@musi-co.com →
Technology
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Impro BEAT

Preliminary release • Free to use

VST Plugin • Mac

Bare-bones UI version!

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impro_vst

Impro

Preliminary release • Free to use

VST Plugin • Mac

Bare-bones UI version!

No implied license: upon downloading Impro BEAT, Musico grants and you receive no license under any Musico Intellectual Property.