Saturday Morning: Poems and Music

A few things emerging from a creative Saturday morning … the poem above is from a one-word prompt (“exceptional”); the comic poem comes from Grant Snyder’s Comic Poetry Month daily prompts (“messy”); and the music track was something I tinkered with, liked and completed, and the title (“In An Otherwise Odd World”) was strange enough […]

Music: Rhythms and Rivers

I was tinkering around with loops yesterday and began to imagine a river as I was working on this piece. Thus, the title — Rhythms And Rivers — and the image, generated by Adobe Firefly AI. Peace (and sound), Kevin

Daily Create: Playing With Corners and Folds

I’m not even sure what kept me working on this DS106 Daily Create prompt through the day yesterday but the prompt about paper folds first led to an image that I thought was interesting but not what I wanted (I used an online paper fold art generator off Github but it seemed more like some […]

AI Analogy: Wedding Bands and Disc Jockeys

Drums flickr photo by JP Carrascal shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license My father, before he retired, was an accountant by day, drummer by night. When I was growing up, he was always busy with music. His Fridays, Saturdays and sometimes Sundays were spent keeping the beat in a variety of different wedding and […]

Daily Create: Wind Willow Harp

One of my prompts for the DS106 Daily Create posted this morning and it’s using the InstrumentBot prompts over at Mastodon to imagine a new musical instrument. I used the AI art generator Adobe Firefly to help me imagine mine — the Wind Willow Harp — and then went into Soundtrap to create the music […]

Lettering and AI Art

I went a little crazy with the new Lettering tool within the Adobe Firefly AI art platform, which I tried out yesterday. Duke Rushmore is my band. And I play the saxophone. Peace (and AI Art), Kevin

AI Audio Adventures (Or How I Asked Holly+ To Eat My Song)

In my inquiry around AI and Audio, I stumbled upon this interesting platform by musician/performer/experimental artist Holly Herndon. Her application — called Holly+ — takes an uploaded audio song and transforms it through AI and Voice into her unique musical style. I had to try it out (of course) and the results are strange but […]

AI Hip Hop: Do You ETMOOC Too?

Yesterday, I was playing around with the AI Music application within the voice-centered AI site called Uberduck, and I went back in to play around today, generating a teaser verse of a song about ETMOOC2. The AI generated the lyrics from a prompt, and then added a voice, rapping the words over a beat. Listen […]

ETMOOC: The Emergence Of Deep Fake Music

I’ve been paying attention to the ruckus over the deep fake music that has showing up on social media in the last few weeks, where an AI-influenced song – Heart On My Sleeve — using the voices of Drake and The Weeknd has shaken the music industry. The song in question was different from some […]