A Wooden Thrush Composition – Kevin’s Meandering Thoughts
It appears as if my newest journey platform-jumping AI instruments was all the time going to steer me right here, to a spot the place I’d “collaborate” with AI on the theme of chicken music and music composition, and work to compose and file a chunk of music utilizing AI and my very own musical expertise.
Let me again up, in case you haven’t been following together with me over the past week or two. That is the fifth publish in a sequence of inquiry dives the place I’m exploring numerous AI platforms on the theme of private curiosity: how music composers have used chicken songs to encourage music (sparked, partially, by Atlas Obscura’s latest guide).
- Within the first publish, I used Google’s Be taught About platform to, properly, study extra on the subject of chicken music and music composers
- Within the second publish, I took some info from Be taught About and moved it into NotebookLM, and did extra analysis and pondering
- Within the third publish, I took the AI voice podcast generated in NotebookLM and minimize it up, and remixed it, turning these artificial voices into extra of an audio collage with a repeating chorus
- In my fourth publish, I took concepts from that audio collage and requested Suno to put in writing me a folks music
Which brings me right here.
For this iteration, there have been undoubtedly extra steps to take and extra involvement on my half, because the human collaborator. I used to be actually inquisitive about how I’d put among the earlier inquiry into motion, by creating a chunk of music that integrated chicken sounds but additionally with the assistance of AI collaboration.
The video down under is the consequence, however listed below are the steps to my mad course of:
- First, I went into Claude AI platform (my best choice as of late, for its security and privateness options, and relative transparency) and requested it to generate a chunk of music manuscript impressed by the music of birds. Truthfully, I didn’t assume it could have the ability to generate something helpful for me. However, shock, it did, and actually, it generated a whole web page of laptop code that then turned a brief piece of musical manuscript.
- Second, I noticed that I wasn’t particular sufficient so I requested it to re-compose, with a Wooden Thrush as its supply. Once more, it created a set of coded directions that generated just a few measures of musical notes, annotated with trills and slides and different bird-centered strategies, so far as I might inform. (see picture at high of this publish)
- Third, I noticed I needed to discover a method to play the notes, however as a chicken, singing. So I went and located a downloadable file of Wooden Thrush songs, and grabbed it. Then I took that file and went into Soundtrap (my go-to musical recording platform) and used its Sampler instrument to create a Wooden Thrush sound that I might use as a single observe, so that each time I hit a keyboard observe, it could sound just like the Wooden Thrush. Plus, I added some results.
- Fourth, I performed the composition generated by Claude on my keyboard in Soundtrap, with the Wooden Thrush because the sound generated by my enjoying as I learn Claude’s manuscript. That was cool, nevertheless it nonetheless wasn’t sufficient.
- Lastly, I composed my very own keyboard and synth background elements to enrich the Wooden Thrush music, after which layered in some extra of the unique chicken audio, creating an audio tapestry of types that, I feel, sounds fairly attention-grabbing.
And whereas the ultimate piece is quite easy in its sound, it has a whole lot of complexities constructed into the method, and I see it as a artistic intersection pushed by my very own pursuits, utilizing AI as a collaborator and trainer at factors alongside the way in which. It appears necessary to me that I ended up in a spot the place I used to be truly making one thing, as an alternative of simply having the algorithms spit outcomes of queries out to me.
Peace (appears like birds),
Kevin
