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Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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There's two fallacies I think you've touched on here, one is that there is an "objectively best" music. Music is so tightly coupled to cultural movements, very subjective, and extremely broad in scope, it just can't be the case. The second I feel is that people would still be interested in AI music in a meaningful way. I think AI music has a following now because it's interesting and novel, and that gives it a story,…

I am old enough to remember when people were afraid that Muzak would take over. It did not. I was at a Chinese restaurant, around a year and a half ago, and realized that the music they played was a sort of “ersatz” music. It was familiar tunes, like Scarborough Fair, or Hotel California, slightly modified, and strung together. Vocals were basically wordless humming. There is an entire industry, based on musicians, p…

>I am old enough to remember when people were afraid that Muzak would take over.

In the 1980s musicians unions wanted to kill the Fairlight CMI synthesizer and it's progeny

https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1985/7/29/a-source-of-di...

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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post #14

I really like it, altough the music seems to be always the 2 same songs with some alterations - Dancer In The Dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnGv2gwk8As - Cigarettes After Sex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIKTnnsL9CU

The 1st one is very similar due to the syncopated bass being anticipated by one 16th within the 1st beat of each measure. I guess it's common in that style.

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

#105
post #21

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A really impressive achievement, I wonder how they achieved it when the song was released.

Star Guitar is from 2003 which was well in the era of "cheap computers are good enough now that we can manipulate each pixel" (after all, Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park were made in the early 90's, and music videos usually don't need "cinematic" image quality because they were broadcasted over TV). If you look closely at the Star Guitar video, you can find "clipping artefacts" where the fragments are pieced together…

Some of the background buildings look completely flat when they should have some slight depth. It took me dozens of viewings before I even noticed

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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post #71
post #47

Shameless plug: You can create one of these yourself using https://wzrd.ai , with any audio you want.

I tried this recently but it's possible to get all the way to putting your card details in without it ever telling you how much it's going to charge you. I closed it.

What do you mean? Normally you should see the price at the start of checkout.

We are improving some stuff though: - Better communication of what's include when you upgrade your project -> DONE - Explain pricing on other pages as well, like home page -> TODO

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

#108
post #14

I really like it, altough the music seems to be always the 2 same songs with some alterations - Dancer In The Dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnGv2gwk8As - Cigarettes After Sex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIKTnnsL9CU

Yeah, it definitely seems to be overfitting.

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

#110
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's two fallacies I think you've touched on here, one is that there is an "objectively best" music. Music is so tightly coupled to cultural movements, very subjective, and extremely broad in scope, it just can't be the case. The second I feel is that people would still be interested in AI music in a meaningful way. I think AI music has a following now because it's interesting and novel, and that gives it a story,…

I am old enough to remember when people were afraid that Muzak would take over. It did not. I was at a Chinese restaurant, around a year and a half ago, and realized that the music they played was a sort of “ersatz” music. It was familiar tunes, like Scarborough Fair, or Hotel California, slightly modified, and strung together. Vocals were basically wordless humming. There is an entire industry, based on musicians, p…

It's called library music. It's much used in ads, trailers, and corporate productions. Ad agencies sometimes also commission music.

Ad use pays incredibly well, because unlike streaming you get a non-trivial fee every time it airs on TV/radio/cinema.

Some musicians make very successful careers doing this.

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