This is my third iteration of some explorations I am doing with Google’s AI Platforms and with an inquiry into how music composers have used bird songs for inspiration. I started in Google’s Learn About (see post) and then moved into NotebookLM (see post) and now I have taken the voices from the AI podcast file and remixed some of what they were saying into a short remix piece.
I loved the phrase “And then there’s the cuckoo” so I used it as a sort of refrain, with a sound of the cuckoo, calling back every time the male’s voice says it.
I have at least one more iteration to explore, with a more song-focused concept. I don’t know how it will go. And in my head, I have a future project, too, where I work to compose a bird song myself, using the knowledge I have been gathering in my inquiry explorations. That may require more thinking. But I want this to go beyond playing with AI tools — I want to take what I have found and move the idea forward, on a human scale (but bird-song-influenced).
Peace (calling it out),
Kevin