From Idea To Music (w/ The AI Collective)
Time: 12:00–14:00
Format: Lunch workshop – optional to bring your own lunch
Track: AI Collective FUN Track
What if you could turn an idea into an actual song during your lunch break?
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll go from a simple idea or theme to lyrics, musical direction and an AI-generated song.
We’ll use tools such as ChatGPT or Claude together with Suno, but the focus isn’t on the tools themselves. It’s on the creative process — exploring ideas, experimenting with different directions, refining prompts and lyrics, and discovering how iteration can transform the final result.
We’ll finish with an AI Song Challenge, where we listen to the creations and vote for our workshop favourites.
Bring an idea. Leave with a song.
Agenda
12:00–12:10 — Welcome & inspiration
A quick introduction to AI-assisted music creation, the creative process and today’s challenge.
12:10–12:30 — EXPLORE: From idea to creative direction
Start with a theme, feeling, story or concept and use AI to explore different possibilities and develop your creative direction.
12:30–12:55 — CREATE: Lyrics & musical style
Develop your lyrics, song structure, genre, style, mood and musical direction.
12:55–13:25 — GENERATE: Bring your song to life
Turn your concept into music with Suno. Generate your first versions and experiment with different interpretations.
13:25–13:40 — ITERATE: Make it better
Refine your prompts, lyrics and musical direction. Compare versions, make changes and see how iteration can transform the result.
13:40–14:00 —AI Song Challenge
Time for the premiere!
We’ll listen to short excerpts from the songs and celebrate the creativity in the room. Participants will vote in these categories:
- Best Song — the strongest overall creation
- Most Original Idea — the most unexpected or inventive concept
Who should attend
Anyone curious about AI, music and creativity.
All music enthusiasts are welcome! You dont need to be a musician, songwriter, DJ or AI expert, but you absolutely could be or want to become. The workshop is for beginners as well as people who have already experimented with generative AI and want to explore a more creative use case.
Note! Bring your laptop, headphones, your lunch and an idea — serious, personal, playful or completely random.
Key takeaways
By the end of the workshop, you will have:
Created your own AI-generated song from an initial idea
Experienced the full creative workflow from idea → lyrics → musical direction → song
Learned how to move beyond one-shot prompting and improve creative outputs through iteration
Experimented with how different prompts, lyrics and musical directions affect the result
Seen how human creative choices and AI can work together throughout the creative process
Experienced how an initial AI generation can be refined and transformed into something more intentional and personal
Shared and compared different creative approaches with other participants
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