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Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by werdnapk »

ehnto wrote: post #21
flobosg wrote: post #17

The syncing of the visuals to the music brings to mind the video for The Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM

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

The different elements in the scenery represent various sounds and instruments in the song.

Another of Gondry's videos that did a similar thing was Daft Punk - Around the World (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKYPYj2XX80) where each of the different types of "people" represented different sounds in the source track.

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

cycomanic wrote: post #72
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 would argue that a lot of this "stock music" is just a continuation of elevator music which has been around for a very long time. There's musicians (often very good ones) who essentially made their whole career doing this music, look up James Last for example.

Exactly. In fact, there was a Romanian electronic musician that I used to like, and his catalog suddenly disappeared.

When I contacted him, to find out what happened, he informed me that all his music was now only available through a stock agency.

Can't blame him, but I was a bit sad.

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by eek04_ »

ehnto wrote: post #78
hfjfktkrkf wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Parent meant best in the sense of Billboard Hot 100. Saying people will not be interested in AI music is like saying people will not be interested in movies with CGI.

That's not even a close comparison. Humans make CGI, it's still directed and created by humans. The real comparison would be seeing if people would accept that movies aren't written and directed by humans anymore. Music outside of pop gains popularity through grass roots popularity contests essentially. Then in Top 40 people care way more about the personalities than the music, you could probably sneak some AI music…

It actually wouldn't be the same music. DJs typically adapt their set to how the crowd reacts.

See e.g. https://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/05/dj-getting-people-to-d...

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by yesenadam »

imtringued wrote: post #89
reducesuffering wrote: post #15

This is scary and what I feared would eventually happen. How long before AI is better than every music producer, trained on all of music how likeable something is? How long before fake influencers on IG and TikTok completely dominate by having more addictive personalities and videos to follow than real people?

If there is a way to turn this AI into an instrument then people will learn "the AI" the same way they learn "the guitar".

I remember reading 10 or 20 years ago that dj/rap turntables had outsold guitars in the UK for the first time that year. That was my "wow, people don't play music any more" moment...

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by tcgv »

smusamashah wrote: post #96
menzoic wrote: post #95

Can someone explain why this is impressive? Seems easy to correlate music features to visuals. It's been done for decades. What's special about this one?

Music generated with this https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/

I enjoyed the music and thought "wait, was this song AI generated?" then I turned Shazam to confirm it and it showed:

"k. (Klesh Remix)"

"Cigarettes After Sex"

Re: This Music Video Does Not Exist [video]

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Post by HenryBemis »

flobosg wrote: post #17

The syncing of the visuals to the music brings to mind the video for The Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM

Music video reminded me of "The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1oWf07FRCw

From Wikipedia: The music video shows a speeded up view from the driver's cab of a train journey from London Victoria to Brighton Station.

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