No Budget Vs Master Musician / AI Video Wizardry featuring Jordan Rudess!
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
- Well, this is a crazy video. Jordan Rudess, legendary keyboardist and master musician dropped by my house for a unique AI Challenge. I showed him an AI Generated Image and had him improvise a piece of music. I then turned that song into a Music Video...with no budget!
How did I accomplish it? By using AI, of course. Namely, the wonderful LTX Studio!
Not only that, but I'll also deep dive into Jordan's thoughts on the past and current state of Music Videos, and how technology can be a useful tool for promoting your own music.
And that's not all. Like Jordan says in the video, Dream Theater Music Videos are all about the performances-- so, I do have a special surprise waiting for you in this video as well!
My thanks to @LTX.Studio for sponsoring this video!
And of course, the masterful @JordanRudessKeys for stopping by!
Join the LTX Waitlist: bit.ly/LTXtheoreticallymedia
Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:39 - Why Jordan Rudess is At My House
1:29 - Jordan Talks about the "Pull Me Under" Music Video
2:26 - How Are Music Videos viewed by the Major Labels?
3:28 - What does the landscape look like today for Independent Music Artists?
4:35 - LTX Studio Quick View
4:52 - Jordan Rudess Performance Video
5:39 - Jordan's thoughts on the Improvisational process
6:35 - My thoughts on visualizing with LTX Studio
7:21 Second Performance Intro
7:44 - Jordan Rudess Solo Perfomance - Наука та технологія
Been on waitlist of LTX since March 5, cmon guys let us in!
I'm hearing very soon! I'll check in with them!!
Same. Even tried joining their Discord.
🦗
I joined the waitlist in March as well. They finally accepted my on Apr 30, but I didn't find the email until May because it was in my junk folder.
You most likely are not part of Discord. They were given keys out at random intervals. Got in on it a couple months ago. So far the verdict is it's "ok". I found some of the storyboarding and timing frustrating, and video output was lacking. Has potential though.
I'm in the same boat. I joined their Discord but will check my junk folder, thanks for the tip @ High-Tech-Geek
As a long time Dream Theater fan and musician who never would've gone pro if it weren't for pushing myself with their inspiration, this is the coolest video in the "AI News" space, by far.
Ah man, thank you so much! I knew this video would be a bit of a swing for the larger audience. I do cover a lot of AI Music stuff here too, but obviously-- this one is not the usual format!
That said, I also KNEW this video would slam home for a number of you!
...and yeah, I might have gotten a private JR concert at my house...that wasn't the worst! haha
I’ve witnessed the remarkable enhancements LTX Studio brings to videos, and I’m thrilled about the prospect of harnessing its capabilities for my own creations! 🌟but I’ve been eagerly awaiting access to LTX Studio since April
I'll check in with them-- I believe the doors are about to open wide! And yeah, they keep killing it with the updates! Can't wait for you to start using it!
That was awesome, Tim! More musicians on the channel 😁
Working on it!! Going to reach out to some filmmakers as well!
@@TheoreticallyMedia Yes! Great work Tim
Woo hoo! Rudess!!! Great demo and awesome creative pair. This is why I'm a loyal subscriber! Hella inspirational. Thanks, Tim!
Thanks so much!! Yeah...it was a WILD day! If I could travel back and tell 1999 Me what just happened, I doubt he would have believed it.
Also, he probably would have wanted to know a LOT about all this AI stuff! haha
😍 LOVE,LOVE,LOVE Drem Theater. Jordan himself is a real keyboard wizard
Seriously. The Gandolf of the keys!
OMG!!! I love Dreamtheater!!
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 Great LTX Video and great Convo with a legendary creator. Thanks Tim.
Super Appreciated!! I'm still pinching myself that it even happened!
Been a long time fan of DT and Jordan since I was in high-school, so this was an awesome video to watch.
Jordan Rudess is awesome!
I can't stress enough how nice a person he is as well!
Congrats Tim! Jordan is a maestro.
100%! It's funny, we did move to the keyboard since my piano (while...y'know, it's nice) needs a little love and slight tuning-- but even just watching him play it for a split second? Man-- I have never heard that thing sing the way it did.
@@TheoreticallyMedia Well I loved it, one of your best episodes from a loyal AI-Aholic and ex-film guy. Congrats man.
Dang. Awesome collaboration!
Seriously! Top 10 day for me!
No way!
Now I’m jealous.😂
(Great job.)
Thank you! Haha, I’m a little jealous of me as well! Seriously, such a “pinch me” day!
My interests in GenAi and my life-long fandom of DT/LTE coming together with this video made my week. What a cool side quest from your news roundups! 🔥👏🏽🔥👏🏽
Haha. So happy you dug this one, John! Loved having the opportunity to flex some production muscles as well! Camera setups, lighting, and all the other stuff that isn’t just me sitting at a desk! It was a lot of fun! And…y’know, a killer performance from Jordan!
It was such a fun day!
@@TheoreticallyMedia You had to have asked about the Portnoy reunion ya? LOL 😉
New studio, fine! 🙂
Haha, that’s Studio A! I’ve been stuck upstairs in the makeshift Studio B for over a month now!
But, the A project is ALMOST done. Hopefully just 2 more weeks and then we’ll be back down there!
Your video captivated me, truly a remarkable piece!
7:43
I'm loving this!
This video is a masterclass in music video production on a budget! As a producer specializing in Happy Birthday Bash songs, I found this incredibly insightful. The collaboration with Jordan Rudess, a world-class musician, and the innovative use of AI tools like LTX Studio to create compelling visuals is truly inspiring. This experiment highlights how technology can revolutionize the creative process, even without a big budget. I’m always looking for vibrant and celebratory footage to keep the birthday spirit alive, and this video gave me some great ideas. Thank you for sharing this journey and the amazing improvisational performance! #MusicVideoProduction #JordanRudess #AIInMusic #CreativeInspiration #BirthdayBashSongs #CelebrationFootage
artsome!
Thank you!! Really means a lot! I dug in pretty deep for this video! Means a lot!
Man, he loves those secondary dominants
Very Cool Video!!!
Thank you so much!! Really appreciate that!
Groovy
This one was super fun to make! Glad you dug it! I know it's not the usual "Guy at Desk" AI video-- but I gotta get away from the desk from time to time! haha
Heck yes congrats leverage AI not only LTX but now Luma as well and krea it's wild thank u right music and visuals touches souls thank u
100%! Jordan is totally a musician who gets it too!
Nice!
Thank you! This one was a real joy to put together! Glad you enjoyed it!
The future will be a natural extension, of our desire to be more like the Creator!
Jordan is a wizard❤❤❤
4:51
Damn, this is so amazing with the music and visuals!
"What a time to be alive!"
👋 Tim ........ closing in on 100K subs!!!
Exciting!!
Awesome Video!!😻
I have been on the waitlist for LTX since March.
Still hoping for an email.
😵
Thank you SO much! Checking in with them now! I believe the doors are due to open up wide very soon!
Excellent. Thanks. Ai has a long way to match human creativity
Also if youre into EDM/techno, Kaiber AI is another tool for fast easy visuals with low budget👍
Kaiber is great! Gotta check in with them, I think they released a new motion brush!
amazing
Thank you so much! Super proud of this one!
Yay Tim so amazing thank u both and wow jordan u play music from soul its not something that can be.taught its felt thank u so cool love this yes it's like channeled music using image to music love it
Still pinching myself that it happened!
just jumped on the waitlist. Can u please make the solo video at the end its own clip. would be col to be able to listen to it over and over again
That's awesome!! You know what, shoot me an email at Theoreticallymedia@gmail.com and I'll send that part over to you! It's...stellar.
home concert , yes
Great 👍
You know, Tim! I was thinking about how do I want to bring up my child! I want them to develop their own music propensities and inclinations towards music styles! I hope Beyonce Renaissance era will be an inspiration! But I will be against them using generative AI tools! Because the Rennesainse is so good! And it was the last good original album written by humans! I think it was the last masterpiece of original song writing and the landmark she left with her album! She outdid herself! I am looking forward to her rock n roll tour and the album! But it will all be created in generative AI era - and we will never know who uses which tool to make songs
Well, I’ll say that one thing musicians always have over AI generated material is: Live Performance. A musician at a piano, or with a guitar, or any other instrument, performing on a stage, street corner, bar, wedding, massive arena…that’s something we all connect with.
I think GenAI is great for assisting in the studio, but ultimately, a musicians real connection with an audience happens through live performances.
Great stuff! Deserved a longer format
I know-- it's always a weird game with UA-cam. I'd have loved to do a two hour sit down/convo-- but YT tends to bury that stuff for me. Maybe one day I can do a separate podcast type thing.
@@TheoreticallyMedia I understand. Yet there is room for quality in depth material. Rick Beato has a second channel with great interviews and Lex Friedman does 4 hour interviews.... So don't bury the dream :)
Dream machine just got released have you seen it yet?
Did a whole video yesterday! ua-cam.com/video/JmSHU2FZ8II/v-deo.html
@@TheoreticallyMedia awesome I will check it out
@@TheoreticallyMedia actually I did watch it
@@TheoreticallyMedia hahaha sorry about that
Gonna be another great one!
Been playing with Luma and my gosh is it impressive! I wonder if their paid will remove watermark too?
Can't wait for you to check it out! It's a little different format-wise, but I'm still super proud of it!
As for Luma, yeah-- that's a REALLY good point! I'll ask them about that!
what he's gonna do when AI will feel the video and plays a master piece....
Well, he (and other musicians) can always play live. And Jordan leans in as well. He has a few apps he’s developed to help sketch musical ideas.
And what he does (and granted, dude is a pro level genius) is he’ll then learn the output and perform it. Obviously, he still writes his own stuff as well, but these tools are really handy when you get stuck and need a quick idea. I did a video on Udio (a few videos ago) that goes into more detail about this.
@@TheoreticallyMedia I do agree with you for now, but dont you think the more AI advances it's going to take a small piece of the pie, until nothing is left?
same you can do with Udio no need for a musician to come over
Funny enough, if you go back and watch my last Udio video, I actually took a bit of Jordan's performance and had Udio extend it! Check it out to compare: ua-cam.com/video/W471Vjeyhjo/v-deo.html
@@TheoreticallyMedia did you pay him for that?
Incredible how Ai is offering a hobbyist musician like me the opportunity to experiment with video creation to define my sonic storyline. Xmass 2023 as a novice Just working with ChatGPT, Runway and very basic editing in Davinci Resolve left my mouth open as to what could be achieved. The song ( basic xmas piece (no Ai music) reflected on the austerity in the UK, against the background of an ongoing conflict in Ukraine- ua-cam.com/video/9Wfq7j1d9LE/v-deo.html Now with options to work with UDIO ( the other musician in the room) will be interesting.
I really wish I could use LTX Studio on my phone. 😢. Since my stroke I can only use one hand, I have visual issues with big screens. So using a laptop or PC is not possible. I tried going to desktop mode but it still wouldn't let me use it 😞. Hopefully that will make it more mobile phone friendly in the near future. 🤞
i think you have a type 🤣
Haha, don't tell my wife! But heck yeah: Super Talented Rock Stars all the way! haha
Love DT and really glad Jordan is embracing AI! We need more artists to get on board with it. :)
It's so perfect for Jordan's solo work. Obviously, not as high profile as DT, but gives him the opportunity to create awesome visuals to accompany his impressive (and constant!) output!
Jordan's attitude is super cool about AI. But I have to be critical and say that the video was just scenes with music. It needed human intervention to edit the scenes to be a music video. The timing is all out, it felt sterile. I've done a few AI based music videos (feel free to contact me for unreleased videos), but they have all used AI to enhance, not replace creativity. I feel that's missing in the example. Sorry! Just my feelings.
No worries! This was more a demo of LTX on its own. Had I the time, I certainly would have shot some additional scenes as well.
In fact, keep an eye out on the channel for something interesting on THAT front.
And maybe i will do a v2 using some of the footage of Jordan playing as well!
Fate of logics pro ?
So he doesn't need film makers anymore to make videos for his music. Film makers don't need musicians anymore to score their films. Any one wanna take a quick guess where this nonsense is heading?
Eh, if you spend some time on the channel you'll see that I don't believe that at all. You CAN automate all this stuff, but I think if you do, you end up with something super bland. What we're talking about here is using the technology in creative ways, and always with an eye on keeping a human direction element to it-- so you can do more with smaller/lower budgets. Particularly important if you're not getting the Taylor Swift treatment.
@@TheoreticallyMedia I'm sorry but that's just wishful thinking at best.
Unfortunately the world we live in has not set incentives to regulate this. This "human direction element to it" you mention is absolutely meaningless. What matters is economic incentives. The "human direction element" you are talking about will come down to a handful of people, executives at whatever company ends up buying the others, gobbling all of the market value of the entertainment industry into AI.
Entertainment equals attention. Nobody gives a damn about "human direction element". They care about bottom lines, and driving eyes to content. That content used to be made by humans, those humans are being replaced.
That will collapse not only the direct jobs, it will ruin entire companies that supply goods and services to that industry (like camera manufacturers, etc).
It is one thing to actually use tools like cameras, lenses, lighting, computers, software, to MOLD and craft a video, and quite another to have an ENTITY make it for you. People don't seem to be grasping what this actually means. This includes you.
Getting back to incentives, there are then two things to keep in mind. The first is that as this becomes normalized, no one is looking for a "human touch" to anything, businesses are simply looking out for their bottom line. The system incentivizes everyone to cut costs and increase margins just to keep ahead of the competition, and there is no counter incentive to keep "humans" involved because by comparison to generated content, they are inefficient and costly.
Which is why you have all these people excited about "doing what you couldn't do before with a lower budget". Except, this is NOT a cinema camera becoming accessible to more and more people. This is an AGENT, REPLACING HUMAN AGENTS, in the creative process.
The second thing regarding incentives, is that no one is incentivized to keep any other human involved in any of the process. You are simply involved in prompting away because the technology hasn't yet gotten to a point where he can just upload a song to a neat little app and have it spit out a video without you in the middle. Don't like it the video? here's three other options. Why should he involve you next year when that app is available? Specially fi it's gonna cost him unnecessarily.
You have to be willfully blind to not see the obvious trajectory. Because it would be very different if this was isolated to a specific economic activity during a longer timeframe. But it's not. Illustrators, 2D artists, VFX artists, writers, musicians, etc, etc, etc all being pushed out of the market simultaneously.
Everyone is busy "adapting to survive", "learning to use the new tools", with their heads underground not looking at the bigger picture. There has never ever ever ever before in the history of civilization been a time where all creative activity was delegated to a non human agent.
These are not tools. These are creative agents.
So to answer my own question:
Where this will inevitably lead, is that it will reduce all human creative endeavor to a pretty hobby in a world saturated by AI generated content...created not by humans...but by other AI.
It starts with people deluding themselves into thinking this is a tool that allows them to do what they couldn't do before. And ends with no one being interested in your AI generated music, AI generated videos, AI generated movies, AI generated games, because the AI can generate individually tailored everything for anyone with a couple of swipes and a click.
And the saddest part is that all the zombies excitedly playing with these models thinking they are "tools" are just training them faster and faster and faster to replace more and more and more people.
Live Nation decimated indie touring years ago. Clear Channel destroyed radio years ago. Spotify aka Napster in accordance with the Big 3 killed any chance at fair payment per stream years ago. Tower Records is gone. Alamo Drafthouse just died in DFW. Etc.
The Industry has always been a very small group of agents and lawyers making deals to benefit their bottom line. They don’t care if the work requires skilled union craftsmen with mortgages in Irvine or a teenage tastemaker prompting Tim Cook’s latest acquisition.
These new tools will win. Same as Pro Tools destroyed large recording studios, CineAlt came for film, and Linn Drum made toes tap.
Adapt or die. And maybe adapt and die. But unless a major solar flare wipes out the grid, this is the new fire everyone in the West with currency to spend will be gathered round to hear stories.
@@cesarpadilla6754I just don't think it will be as apocalyptic as you're expecting...
I mean.. on the one hand.. perhaps it will be, but yeah as an artist I couldn't be more excited for the prospect of one day being able to truly create at the speed of thought.
I think the oracular nature of this particular subject leads everyone to have crazy visions of what the future might possibly become, even me, and for the most part we only focus on the elements that we consider to be the most important or alarming, but it's an event horizon, it's a great filter, it's a slippery exponential slope pulling us up into the sky like some sort of f*cking UFO!
Regardless, short of smashing all the screens and destroying all the internet towers I just don't see how our species is even capable of slamming the breaks on this accelerating momentum, I honestly think our species has just been along for the ride ever since we discovered fire...
I think there's less distinction between science and religion back in our ancient past and I honestly think we're about to come full circle once again and return back to a state of mind that is more reflective of a cyclical nature of time and reality as understood by our ancestors.
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that humanity is very keenly (and I would say: accurately) anticipating with great sense of foreboding some potential future scenario where the human species is humbled by our own reflection, I think it would be better to be humbled as opposed to entranced, beguiled and drowned altogether but I don't think we will meet the same fate as Narcissus, I think if we are doomed, we're either doomed to a sudden and violent end or more likely we'll be doomed by the kindness employed to kill us softly, which we'll hardly notice... I mean.. look. What do you want from me? Logic? Reason? I'm only human. We're all doomed one way or another, that's inherent to our common condition... the question is: are death and taxes the only certain things in reality?
This video is really great! Your channel has inspired me to create my own channel. I recently made a motivational video that explores his path to enlightenment and the secrets of the sudden enlightenment method. If you are interested in Zen and Buddhist philosophy stories, don't miss it! Let's swim in the ocean of wisdom together!
jordan is a generated ai
oh man, the fans of bands literally dont' want ai music videos. .. there was a band that did this recently and yea ppl were not impressed.. it's weird that he's talking about ai art for inspiration.. all the artists are leaving instagram now cuz of this type of thing. There's a new social media for art, and they banned ai, i duno why ppl are so gung ho to replace real artists.. it's cringe dude
To be honest, I think it’s less than you think. And to be clear, Jordan uses these tools for his solo work, not Dream Theater.
That said, I know there is a pretty vocal Anti-AI crowd, but the vast majority of the general population either can’t tell, or don’t care.
Phish (insert stoned hippie joke) recently played the Sphere in Las Vegas, and their visuals were done in Stable Diffusion. And what they were accomplishing there (real time art generation at a MASSIVE size) wouldn’t be possible without AI.
It’s a tool. Some will use it well, some will use it badly. I do think that artists leaving IG or any other socials is a short sighted move. You’re really only robbing yourself of a potential audience for your work.
…then again, I don’t use IG. So, there’s also that.
Layer upon layer of total crap content creation. Congratulations