Dear Lodger, thank you for your art and for your open universities, they are as illuminating and reassuring as they are welcomed. A few days ago, on Christmas Eve I had a spiritual reawakening, and amongst the meaning making and waking up of the last few days, synchronicities such as your transmissions are welcome. Life as art. I look forward to the airt of 2025, and artificial intelligence will surely have its natural place in it.
Can anyone tell me which / how, what I assume is AI narration one the intro. Is this an off the shelf voice, or one trained on the original OU presenter?
Yes, it's AI narration. I trained this voice myself using Speechify. The voice comes from this 1957 documentary: ua-cam.com/video/n62zZATx9Ts/v-deo.html
Forgive me if I’ve asked this before: would you ever consider making any of your GarageBand stems available for remixing and reimagining purposes? I had great fun a few years ago with Bowie’s Space Oddity stems, for example. I think it could make an interesting companion piece to any of your upcoming albums.
You could just write in a pastische style without the AI because then you would at least retain legal copyright of the work. (Even you crowdsourced the music written by other musicians...they would get benefit of exposure and you get the benefit of connection to others in the community rather than making the tech bros richer which you say you left twitter to escape already. It seems cognitively dissonant to not like their atomizing / dehumanising politics but to use and fund their dehumanising software. ) juxtaposition is fine but the sources aren't really being generated by chance if you are telling it specifically which genre to recreate. Agree with your points about guilt. But perhaps people became artists to have a platform for catharsis for thier own guilt and shame. The vinyl plug in sounds cool. There are a lot of tape plug ins to do similar things but hadn't heard if a vinyl one...but then again if i need a warbling sound i just use a vibrato pedal or set the Lfo on the synth so i haven't really looked for one.
the problem with making money off music is that you are paid (if you're lucky) for products and performances but all the preparation that goes into those products and performances is unpaid labor.
Everybody's favourite juxtaposeur! 2025 awaits your new exciting cultural moves and shakes (and melts), monsieur! Good art is never apologetic.
The OU is my favourite discovery of 2024. Thank you for sharing your insights into the creative process with us.
Dear Lodger, thank you for your art and for your open universities, they are as illuminating and reassuring as they are welcomed. A few days ago, on Christmas Eve I had a spiritual reawakening, and amongst the meaning making and waking up of the last few days, synchronicities such as your transmissions are welcome. Life as art. I look forward to the airt of 2025, and artificial intelligence will surely have its natural place in it.
Marvelous to hear this lecture for contemplation and inspiration! Thank you Momus❤️🎵🌹
2:16 such a charming duo!
Thanks to the lecturer 🙏🏻
Great Christmas Episode ❤️
Can anyone tell me which / how, what I assume is AI narration one the intro. Is this an off the shelf voice, or one trained on the original OU presenter?
Yes, it's AI narration. I trained this voice myself using Speechify. The voice comes from this 1957 documentary: ua-cam.com/video/n62zZATx9Ts/v-deo.html
Forgive me if I’ve asked this before: would you ever consider making any of your GarageBand stems available for remixing and reimagining purposes? I had great fun a few years ago with Bowie’s Space Oddity stems, for example. I think it could make an interesting companion piece to any of your upcoming albums.
It’s certainly something to think about. If a song takes your fancy drop me a line.
@ Oooh! Watch this space…….
You could just write in a pastische style without the AI because then you would at least retain legal copyright of the work. (Even you crowdsourced the music written by other musicians...they would get benefit of exposure and you get the benefit of connection to others in the community rather than making the tech bros richer which you say you left twitter to escape already. It seems cognitively dissonant to not like their atomizing / dehumanising politics but to use and fund their dehumanising software. )
juxtaposition is fine but the sources aren't really being generated by chance if you are telling it specifically which genre to recreate.
Agree with your points about guilt. But perhaps people became artists to have a platform for catharsis for thier own guilt and shame.
The vinyl plug in sounds cool. There are a lot of tape plug ins to do similar things but hadn't heard if a vinyl one...but then again if i need a warbling sound i just use a vibrato pedal or set the Lfo on the synth so i haven't really looked for one.
the problem with making money off music is that you are paid (if you're lucky) for products and performances but all the preparation that goes into those products and performances is unpaid labor.