The Tenzer AI Music Contest for Spring 2025 was created for all current DePauw Students, regardless of major or class year. This contest aims to have a creative and fun experience using AI while also learning and practicing prompt engineering. There will also be some fun rivalry as we open voting to our Instagram followers for the first time!
Introduce the forms of generative AI outside of text generation formats
Expose students to AI music and image platforms
Encourage students to practice prompt engineering
Create an account on Suno AI
Your song should have lyrics, so make sure to select "Classic lyrics model" and make sure "Instrumental" is NOT toggled when using Suno AI.
For this contest, there are two categories:
Make a song about the DePauw experience
Make a song about the Tenzer Technology Center
When creating the prompt for the song, make sure to include the style of song you want (uplifting, dramatic, empowering, solemn, etc) and include information you want to appear in the lyrics. The better your prompt engineering, the better your resulting song might be!
The Album Cover
Use Neural Frames to generate an album cover.
Suno AI will provide you with an album cover, but we want you to practice image prompt engineering by creating your own with a different software!
Submit your song and album art through this form. Please note we also want to see screenshots of your submitted prompts as well. You can see an example submission on our Example page.
Submissions will be due by 11:59PM on February 24th, 2025.
Unlike past contests, where submissions were not publicly posted, we will be posting submissions to this contest on the Tenzer Technology Center Instagram. Complete and appropriate submissions will be posted to our stories for our Instagram followers to vote on. The top three submissions will then receive prizes.