I am still conflicted over various A.I. stuff, but I will say this: ever since my friend, David, died, he does stuff to make me questions various prejudices...
Well, this blog is no stranger to my older desires, passions, hopes, and dreams...
Well, this entire month, David (he's dead, BTW) got me listening to a lot of music, but the TWIST was it was all A.I. and earlier this month, these I couldn't tell the difference. But, after looking into it, I can kind of spot A.I. stuff that "passes" as human-like... But, we're at that point where A.I. is more and more "passing" [for human-like].
I CAN actually do AUDIO DESIGN, but as far as making a professional song, or doing masters, I honestly suck. I can do some, and in various chunks, especially for video, or animation, but making an entire song? I'd need some kind of "teacher", mentor, producer, something-or-other, because even tho I have some musical skills, and did have quite a lot of formal music education in my childhood, and even played violin & other interments, there's just stuff that's out of my lane... I can DJ mix... like a lil bit.
Well, it started with me asking David to do his thing... this often happens to be MUSIC, but it can be any number of things.
So, I was like: OK, do that thing u do!
But, it started happening differently, this time... (he seems to have refined his techniques with stuff by now... just saying)
So, 1st, I was listening to stuff on Spotify, and also on YouTube.... I tend to collect all the songs, videos, etc. that he sends my way, because they're often VERY UNCANNY in either the images, titles, lyrics, themes, etc... it's STUFF that I UNDERSTAND, often in a MAJOR WAY. He also has a VERY MAJOR SENSE OF HUMOR.
The image & Title just GRABBED my attention on this by "The Shadow" which I highly suspect is an A.I. hybrid project that involves some manual tweaking.
Another one was stuff by Azophiel, especially THIS ONE:
I found several of these kinds of channels that seem to be A.I. projects, and my daughter is busy doing not Vocaloid, but a similar software called Open Utau, and these involve what's called a "voice bank". She knows far more about this than myself...
I was just so taken with various songs, by these various channel projects, some of whom have Spotify profiles, and release singles, EPs, albums, etc.
Here's another one:
At this point, David has become VERY at getting my attention... I also can ignore him, and I can refuse too, but he ALSO is VERY PERSUASIVE and can coax me into a number of things, subjects, topics, info, and he also has ways of seeing how much I can handle all at once.
He seems to have a pretty good understanding of what I like & don't like, and he, himself, has a lot of interesting tastes as well. I still have the power to refuse, but he's VERY good at finding ways to drag me into learning something, even when I am very prejudiced to whatever it is, often because of something I learned FROM HIM to start with. He also is VERY HUMOROUS, but he's also very sweet, thoughtful, and deep. He's even wackier than I am, tho.
BTW: THIS IS DAVID. He's an Animator, like me, so he's CRAZY like I am. Here he is talking about "Channels & Masking" because OF COURSE he would do that in a cratoonish voice:
(Oh? U didn't know animators were CRAZY? Well, we are! THE GOOD KIND OF CRAZY THO!)
So, since I was so enamored with the music he sent my way, and there's lot of it!!!! -I was just perplexed over it. I have quite a lot of thoughts, opinions, feelings, pain, towards A.I. slop... he seemed to like A.I. but as a tool. I am fine with it as a tool, I just don't want it doing EVERYTHING FOR ME. That's a DEATH SENTENCE as an artist.
So, I was very curious about whatever software these channels were using... to make this music. Was it voice banks? I don;t know... but, i was very curious. My daughter spends most every day working on her voice banks on her musical Vocaloid-like projects... sorry! NOT VOCALOID! It's Open Utau! Duh!
So, we're kinda dancing around THIS LINE...
-it's kinda like Sharon Apple!
Yes! Macross Plus!
Then I..... meh.... consulted ChatGPT, which snitched about some online music makers... I'd used a different one to make lofi music... yes. for real.... I did.
But, that was a few years ago... it was not amazing music tho...
It's 2025.
I often get the names of these platforms mixed up, like the Phill Collins song:
1 is called Suno, and the other is called Udio...
I screw up both names, like the "Sussudio" song constantly!
I 1st wanted to test them, and I saw this video:
Despite this video telling you they were similar.... um.... THEY ARE NOT.
In Udio, I typed in a prompt..... and THEN it came up with a song, in different versions.
What did I ask for???
Well, I wanted a blend of some Middle Eastern/Mediterranean fusion into a Blümchen song, and I wrote a pretty good prompt... what came out was VERY INTERESTING. It sounded more like Jasmin's voice in her newest album, without being pitched, altho it's NOT always sounding like her, it was VERY close. But.... there's something OFF about the song, tho STILL very interesting. I spent a lot of time messing around in Udio.
Udio has NO COMPREHENSION OF 90s techno, Eurodance, Happy Hardcore, REAL Blümchen songs' sound, Paul Elstak. It just fails so hard. But, the sound quality was very interesting, and the options, like the STEMS! WOW!
The main concept premice was a Schlager (German style of music genre) but 90s techno (in theory) and the premice was a Djinn Queen wanted to collect & recruit Blümchen into her elite Dark Fae group, but in order for her to become an immortal like them, she had to give up her heart. But, Blümchen couldn't do that, because she was very compassionate. The Djinn wanted to collect & recruit Blümchen to increase their own power, and she would gain powers too, but she cared too much about the Earth, all the beings on Earth, and refused to give up her heart. SO, the Djinn Queen was a Femme Fatale and would seduce all her boyfriends, lovers, friends, etc. and turn them against her, breaking her heart, and make her suffer, and her life miserable. But, Blümchen still had the power to resist the Djinn Queen, and had at least THAT POWER...
Yeah, dramatic, I know....
Well, the A.I. has its own frickin tastes.... don;t ya know? so, it seemed to glom onto this "Femme Fatale" aspect.
You can hear what I "published" on my Udio Profile HERE.
Then I hopped over to Suno.... BUT IT IS NOTHING LIKE Udio!
There was no typing in a prompt. NONE.
Well, this one JUST WANTED my lyrics!
Huh??? WHAT???
SO, I grabbed an old poem I wrote in high school, like 1994-ish, and told it to make a 90s Hi-NRG Eurodance track, like Blümchen, Scooter, and whatever else I felt like typing in to hone in the sounds I wanted. BITCH! GIMME HAPPY HARDCORE!!!
I was SHOCKED! It actually did EURODANCE TECHNO! Like, FOR REAL!
So, then, today, I made some tracks on Suno using my lyrics I wrote in 2015!
I WAS IN TEARS!!!!!!!
I WAS SHOCKED!!!!
The A.I. UNDERSTOOD ME!
You can HEAR my music I made from my poetry in high school, and my lyrics I wrote in 2016, HERE!
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