Cyber Cypher research
The Cyber Cypher is a research project aimed to preserve and study the artistry of hip hop and develop the next generation of technology for producers and listeners. The main thing we do is record MCs (audio and video) from the Atlanta area and pay them for their time in the studio. These recordings will be used for research purposes, including studies of hip hop artistry, history, and culture, as well as the development of new technologies, such as audio-processing algorithms, generative AI, music recommendation systems, and lyrics captioning software. At the same time, contributing MCs are free to use the recordings in their own music.
If you are located in Atlanta and can rap, please come in for a recording session!
Click here to book yourself into a Cyber Cypher recording session or call 404-894-7856 and leave a message with a number to call you back. If no times are available that match your schedule, let us know and we’ll see if we can arrange more times that work for you.
In exchange for participating in a Cyber Cypher recording session, we will give you a $100 gift card. You may also have the option of receiving an additional $50 if you do some follow-up work (online), where you help us annotate your recordings—similar to Genius.com “verified” annotations.
If you have any question, contact Nat Condit-Schultz at [natcs@gatech.edu], or leave a message at 404-894-7856.
Location and Directions
Our recording studio is located on the Georgia Tech campus in Midtown, in the basement of the Couch building (840 McMillan St NW). You can park on the street or the Curran Street Parking deck for $5, or find free parking a few blocks north in Home Park.
To find the studio: proceed to the intersection of McMillan Street and 8th Street, then look for a door at ground level (not up the stairs) on the north end of the Couch building, facing 8th Street. On GoogleMaps, the entrance door is here.
Rights, IP, and Compensation
As participants in research, you have rights. The Georgia Tech Institutional Review Board oversees all our research, and has deemed this study minimal risk.
- Information about research consent can be found here.
- To participate, you will also need to sign our IP license agreement, which can be found here.
- You do not give up any rights to your musical compositions (lyrics, rhythm, flow, etc.).
- Georgia Tech will own the recordings but grant you unlimited freedom to use the recordings in your own music.
People
- Principal Investigators:
- Student Researchers:
The Cyber Cypher project is a collaboration between the CCML and Georgia Tech’s Four Four Beat Labs.
