Google has added a new music generation model called Lyria 3 to its Gemini 3 models.
I was playing around with it last night – having it generate happy birthday greetings for a friend whose birthday is coming up in a few days, another song for a longtime business partnership I was part of, and more. It’s kind of crazy! And a lot of fun.
When you use Lyria 3 as a tool in Gemini 3 you get back an image and an MP3 file that’s 30 seconds long (longer coming soon according to Google). Turns out the 30 second length is just about perfect for the “quick hit” from a snippet of music.
Google provides several genres you can choose from to start with – or you can just go with whatever you want to say in the prompt – here’s a rough template for doing that:
[Topic] + [Genre] + [Mood] + [Instruments] + [Vocals]
This morning I went for my morning walk and had a thought – how about generating a theme song for my blog. So when I got back home I opened up Gemini, selected the Music tool and entered:
Take a look at my blog and compose my theme song! blog: https://sjl.us
You can see with that prompt that I really didn’t provide it much direction – just a pointer to my blog so that it could try to generate something appropriate.
It took a few seconds for Lyria to read my blog and then use what it found to generate my blog’s theme song – and I like it!
You can play the theme song for yourself here:
