AI Steals (Disaster Movies)
Sometimes AI comes up with very nice melodies. This one is simple and elegant, with my terrible voice-leading. You can sort-of play them together. AI-generated source music:
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Put In a Good Word
The sound of words is always an issue in songs because they can be awkward for singers. For some listeners, some words are fingernails on a blackboard. For AI "singers," they might never be able to pronounce them, or they hallucinate them, which can sometimes be interesting, or they will put emphasis on the wrong syllables, like "geometry", which AI would pronounce as "GE-om-e-try" with a southern lilt, or ge-om-e-TRY, instead of ge-OM-e-try. "Quaternity" was also a word it could not pronounce, perhaps because there are no word patterns (embeddings) that start with "quat". It's usually "quo" or "quar" or "quin". In some cases, the sound of the word itself doesn't matter, particularly in protest songs--like Springsteen's Streets of Minneapolis . The city could be any city, like "Park Forest," and it doesn't matter how musical it is. "Chicago" is famous for its word, an ...
Sacred Geometry Variations (Sum II.5)
One set of old 90s lyrics and a re-imagining of them by 8 imaginary artists, next in the series of In Sum albums. The Sum II series is music based on specific days--in this case May 1, 1997, the date I finished the lyric. Loud Shirts ( Brain Terrain ) (Power Pop) Cover art is AI-generated based on an idea I once had for a staged photograph. The lighting is wrong but fairly close to how I would have done it. The animation is trigonometry, not geometry. The distorted bass sound is interesting. All these songs also have a "producer". Haley (Bossa Nova) A "Girl From Ipanema" vibe. I love the naive irony of the vocal, as if the vocalist really didn't understand its sarcasm. I included a clip of Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz done for Ipanema. I've always loved this footage because she looks almost catatonic, but bossa nova tunes are typically like this--so smooth you're trapped by its stylistic constraints. (My bugaboo about AI vocals is they they "pack...
0125
*** AI-generated tracks with the same strophic lyric schema. What I want is to have AI work from a MIDI file and match syllables with rhymes.
0124
A rhythmic riff derived from 1/24/1998, as an intro and outro, coming and going. 0124 (Coming and Going) by meta4s