3rdAI Playlist Generatorcore
3rdAI · Horizon Europe grant · 2025-03-01–2026-08-31
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Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe. Framework HORIZON · call ERC-2024-POC · scheme HORIZON-ERC-POC · topic ERC-2024-POC. CORDIS record →
Objective
3rdAI is the worlds first research-grade Playlist Generatora tool that combines the granular detail of user-defined searches across our specialist-curated, semantically-tagged 450,000+ track lyrical corpus with the machine learning features of our hip hop-savvy AI. Over the course of our cultural data analytics research on the ERC project, CIPHER: Hip Hop Interpellation (globalcipher.org), we identified that with the development of our 3rdAI Research Engine we had laid the groundwork for a commercializable and sustainable, AI-assisted Playlist Generator tool, profits from which could fund CIPHERs global hip hop research, community engagement projects, and landmark OA scholarly publicationslike the CIPHER journal, Global Hip Hop Studiesin perpetuity. Scaffolded atop our powerful Research Engine, the 3rdAI Playlist Generator will create synergies between our intended research applications and the massive market for streaming music discovery via bespoke sentiment analysis and recommender systems tools.The 3rdAI Playlist Generator thus revolutionizes the streaming and playlisting industries, bringing our next-level analysis of the archetypes and intertexts of thisthe worlds most popular musicto the public. As outlined in our business plan, with 3rdAI, you can now search forand visualize over time and spacehip hops multilingual, deeply intertextual references to war, peace, crime, community, migration, home, and any verbatim or thematically-related concepts you want to explore. But more than that, with the AI-assisted features of the 3rdAI Playlist Generator, now you can sonify your searches, uncovering and exploring the evolution of lyrics, beats, and themes through playlists that take you on a tour of hip hop history from Straight Outta Compton (Los Angeles, 1988) to Gully Boy (Mumbai, 2019) and beyond. Indeed, the name 3rdAI plays on a gem of hip hop knowledge, the 3rd eye of hip hop consciousnessthe oft-referenced archetype of hip hop insight.
Beneficiaries (1)
| Organisation | Country | Role | EC contribution | SME |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK | IE | coordinator | €150,000 |
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