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RaveDJ – AI Music Mashup Maker

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Re: RaveDJ – AI Music Mashup Maker

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Post by soylentcola »

It's surprisingly decent if you pick songs that are already somewhat compatible. It's understandably terrible at deciding when to bring up vocals of either song (often having both playing at once) but I could see something like this working to help get some ideas if you already had something in mind.

For example, I put in two songs that I've actually mashed up manually. It wasn't nearly something you could consider "complete" or even "good" but it gives an idea of how it might work.

Re: RaveDJ – AI Music Mashup Maker

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Post by not1ofU »

amirhirsch wrote: post #11

You Must've Been a Beautiful Baby (Bing Crosby) + The Beautiful People (Marilyn Manson) = https://rave.dj/pMtbBq6XQA3Dzg I'm waiting for it to finish "What a Wonderful World" x "Black Hole Sun"

The first 20 seconds are great and the rest is better than what I was expecting. Post the other one too please.

Re: RaveDJ – AI Music Mashup Maker

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Post by seph-reed »

I've spent a lot of time talking about art with art friends. At this point, we've all seem to agree on three different aspects of art:

1. Non-random uniqueness / creativity. Even is something is lame, originality alone can constitute art. (e.g. weird, uncomfortable stuff)

2. Story. The context or meaning behind a thing can take something done before and make it new again. (e.g I made a rubber band ball for my ex-lover...)

3. Skill. Something can be totally derivative and bland, but if it's really hard to do.. the act of doing becomes the art. (e.g. high-quality muzak)

One thing not in this list is "familiarity." Even though familiarity is most humans favorite thing. Familiarity is actually a major aspect of what defines popular media.

I find that mash-ups lean really hard on the positive connotations of familiarity.

Re: RaveDJ – AI Music Mashup Maker

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Post by not1ofU »

seph-reed wrote: post #14

I've spent a lot of time talking about art with art friends. At this point, we've all seem to agree on three different aspects of art: 1. Non-random uniqueness / creativity. Even is something is lame, originality alone can constitute art. (e.g. weird, uncomfortable stuff) 2. Story. The context or meaning behind a thing can take something done before and make it new again. (e.g I made a rubber band ball for my ex-love…

also subverted familiarity.

My favorite example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5P5IS0gwWI (loosers paradise)

Re: RaveDJ – AI Music Mashup Maker

#16

Post by seph-reed »

not1ofU wrote: post #15
seph-reed wrote: post #14

I've spent a lot of time talking about art with art friends. At this point, we've all seem to agree on three different aspects of art: 1. Non-random uniqueness / creativity. Even is something is lame, originality alone can constitute art. (e.g. weird, uncomfortable stuff) 2. Story. The context or meaning behind a thing can take something done before and make it new again. (e.g I made a rubber band ball for my ex-love…

also subverted familiarity. My favorite example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5P5IS0gwWI (loosers paradise)

This one is seemingly pretty strong in all three of the things mentioned.

subverted familiarity = originality

the skill is super impressive

and while I don't know the story behind this, it could very well be quite meaningful

Re: RaveDJ – AI Music Mashup Maker

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Post by dejawu »

ZeroCool2u wrote: post #2

There has been past discussion of RaveDJ, but it has improved significantly since then. In college, I would frequent the Mashups room on turntable.fm and use it as background music for studying, so I was pretty excited to see this. I spent more time than I'd care to admit when I found it creating new mashups and also comparing/contrasting them to some of my favorite human created mashups. Here's an example of one I a…

If you want more (man-made) mashups, I've been maintaining a list of personal favorites here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dr3iKHVFYGeddLuPfhrm...

Re: RaveDJ – AI Music Mashup Maker

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Post by not1ofU »

seph-reed wrote: post #16
not1ofU wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

also subverted familiarity. My favorite example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5P5IS0gwWI (loosers paradise)

This one is seemingly pretty strong in all three of the things mentioned. subverted familiarity = originality the skill is super impressive and while I don't know the story behind this, it could very well be quite meaningful

I am not sure I agree with: subverted familiarity = originality, but I guess in the context of your original post, I see what you're saying. Maybe subverted expectation would have been a better way to express what I meant.

Re: RaveDJ – AI Music Mashup Maker

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Post by not1ofU »

dejawu wrote: post #17
ZeroCool2u wrote: post #2

There has been past discussion of RaveDJ, but it has improved significantly since then. In college, I would frequent the Mashups room on turntable.fm and use it as background music for studying, so I was pretty excited to see this. I spent more time than I'd care to admit when I found it creating new mashups and also comparing/contrasting them to some of my favorite human created mashups. Here's an example of one I a…

If you want more (man-made) mashups, I've been maintaining a list of personal favorites here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dr3iKHVFYGeddLuPfhrm...

Do you have a shared youtube playlist?, google docs is a great way to harvest creds and other nefarious things.
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