This is another video collection of poems I am writing each morning, using mentor poems from Deanna M’s Advent Of Love collection.
Peace (and love),
Kevin
Wordsworth’s Words
Acoustic Guitar and Christmas Tree
DS106: Remix Monday (Week 4)
I’m doing a five-week, every-Monday remix of a piece of art from the earlier days of DS106. (Read more about what I am up to here). This is week four. So one more week to go. It’s unusual for me to stay with something like over many weeks time. I am usually a move-quick and get-it-done-and-published, but I like taking some time here over a period of a few weeks.
For this week’s activity, I took the text from the original image (the text has become my main focus for remix) and pulled it into Lumen5, which is a video-making site. I decided against photographic images, which is usually how Lumen videos are created, and instead, I used one of its templates with designs. I think that makes more sense for what I was looking for in the words flowing from one phrasing to another.
Peace (and Remix),
Kevin
CLMOOC Silent Sunday
Google’s New AI Tool: MusicFX
I have long been interested (sometimes, alarmed) by how some of the new machine learning/AI tools might impact the making of music. Mostly, I have not been all that impressed (good thing for human music composers, right?) but I also know that the technology is only getting better. (See some earlier posts)
The results have been awful or weird or un-listenable.
Google just released its new tool called MusicFX in its AI Test Kitchen (so, you know, beta) and, well, it’s a big leap forward to what I was playing around with just a few months ago. You write in text about the kind of music you want, and you can add genre, instrumentation, etc, and the site generates a 30 second track. The few experiments I did sounded decent.
Bad news for human music composers? Maybe.
Peace (and sound),
Kevin
PS — there’s also a new TextFX in the same platform but I can’t for the life of me figure out its value.
Advent Of Love: Week Two
This is another video collection of poems I am writing each morning, using mentor poems from Deanna M’s Advent Of Love collection.
Peace (and love),
Kevin
Gift Of Peace Remix 2023
Five years ago, my friend, John, and I went into a recording studio to record a holiday song that we wrote – A Gift Of Peace (For Christmas) — and each year, he and I try to do different remix versions of it, just to keep the song fresh and alive for us.
This year, I used some music software to convert the song into music manuscript (which I then printed out and packaged as a gift to my friend, John). Here, I turned the manuscript into a video, with the instrumental part of the song as backing track.
Peace (not war),
Kevin
PS — the song is still in the music streaming ecosystems:
Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/the-lu…
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5eNEvH… / a-gift-of-peace-for-christmas-single
Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Peace-Chr…
DS106: Remix Monday (Week 3)
I’m doing a five-week, every-Monday (unless I space out and forget to get it done) remix of a piece of art from the earlier days of DS106. (Read more about what I am up to here). This is week three.
For this week’s remix, I took the text of the image about remix, and used a Black Out Poem tool off Glitch, to find a poem inside the text. The I went into LunaPic and did some artistic layering behind the found poem.
Peace (and remix),
Kevin
