Cahn Ingold Prelog (Simon Proffitt) used AI to reinterpret the first 30 releases in the Waxing Crescent discography, purely using the album titles as prompts. At times, spectrograms were converted into audio, some tracks are raw, some are pure MIDI (based entirely on the AI output) and some are a mixture of both. There are no extraneous notes/rhythms, just what I was 'supplied with', albeit polished up a bit. In some cases the raw audio was good enough to stand alone. In some cases though the raw audio is boring, or annoying, so the next step involved converting it into MIDI info and then wiring the MIDI up to some virtual instruments.
Crescence process:
“Text-to-image diffusion models are trained to understand key visual concepts with billions of tagged images. It's a similar (but much more rapid) process to how we learn visual concepts. We know what cats are, because we've seen lots of different cats and understand their common features. And if we want to draw a cat, we use our generic knowledge to create a recognisable picture of a cat, but one that is (very likely to be) slightly different from any other cat... more
released September 22, 2023
Prompted and processed by Simon Proffitt, May 2023
Artwork by Megmayo
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