Adithya Rohith

AI music

Taan and Aalap

Taan.ai

Co-Founder & CEO, Jan 2026-Present. Building controllable AI music generation for video.

Outperforming SOTA models on time-adherence benchmarks. Developed proprietary temporal-alignment architecture. Beta used by 21 agencies.

Incubated at NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore; LocalhostHQ Founders Program.

Aalap AI

Founder & CEO, Dec 2024-Nov 2025. Built AI music systems for advertising and branding.

Led product, customer discovery and technical execution to $1k MRR.

Secured venture term sheet from CoCreate Ventures at age 20.

Research & IP

Published patents and research

AI music research/IP

Patent Published: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MUSIC USING A DYNAMICALLY SELECTED ENSEMBLE OF AI MODELS (App. No. 202541117742) — Co-author; core experimentation code.
Patent Published: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND VALIDATING MUSIC COMPOSITION (App. No. 202541010312) — Co-author; core experimentation code.
Research Paper Under Review: Hybrid Diffusion-Transformer Architecture for Multitrack Mood-Based Carnatic Music Generation. — Co-author.

Patent certificate for multi-layer elastic shoe lace — Granted Patent: A MULTI-LAYER, ELASTIC SHOE LACE (Patent No. 511216).

Shoe-lace patent filing drawings and documents — Filing drawings for the elastic shoe-lace patent.

Building and selling

Robin Internships

Internship platform reaching ~850 users; Top 20/1000+ startups in Cisco x Nasscom ThingQbator.

PES University Student Council

President. Led 750+ student leaders, managed ₹1Cr+ budget, oversaw university clubs and one of the institution's largest festivals.

Before 18

Built and sold products on Amazon from age 11, operated a football-shoe resale business, ran a liquid nitrogen ice-cream venture generating ₹60,000 in 3 days, and built multiple consumer products before age 18.

Ice cream stall banner and menu board — check out the menu

Behind the scenes ice cream production setup — wannabe breaking bad

First Amazon product listing screenshot — First product sold on Amazon.

Shoe resale inventory arranged around Adithya — Football-shoe resale inventory.

Music

E# / @esharp.band

Professional guitarist and metal vocalist in a prog metal band. Winners of 9 Battle of the Bands competitions; performed at BITS Goa, BITS Hyderabad, IIT Madras, RVCE amongst others.

Adithya singing into a microphone on stage — Vocals with E#.

Posts

Media

Finding the right soundtrack for a scene is still weirdly hard.

Adithya is trying to fix that.

Introducing taan, it watches your video and generates music around how the scene actually feels. pic.twitter.com/H7WKFGFfQC
— LocalHost India (@localhostIND) May 23, 2026

We’re launching Taan ai so everyone can one-shot music for their videos!

Music for this video was one-shotted on Taan. 👇🏼

Try our beta out now at taan [dot] ai pic.twitter.com/VEHEUEDbhO
— Addiiiii (@mp3addi) June 11, 2026

Education

PES University — B.Tech Computer Science (AI & ML), 2022-26

Interests

AI Music Generation • Audio ML • Generative Systems • Human-AI Creativity • Computational Music Theory