How Mubert (Probably) Works
Generative music at scale
Mubert is a generative music streaming app available in the browser and on mobile devices. It features a collection of music streams organized by genre and the activities they’re intended to complement, like “sleep” and “work.” Each one of Mubert’s streams is “an infinite ‘live’ track that is constantly changing,” and as the company mentions, “You can’t rewind generative music as it is created in real time.”
That might sound strange if you’re not familiar with “generative music.” This term refers to music that changes continuously and neither ends nor repeats. I have a full introduction to generative music you can read if you’d like, or perhaps Mubert’s own brief description will do:
“Generative music is created in real time by the algorithm from the human-made sounds of one or several music producers.”
If you understand what generative music is, Mubert is pretty much exactly what you’d imagine a “generative music streaming service” would be. It’s a bit like Spotify for algorithmically-generated, infinite music streams.
I’ve built almost 40 generative music systems of my own over the last year, so I was curious to examine how Mubert worked. While I can really only guess based on what the company has revealed publicly and my own experience designing…
