I have to get the hang of it again, but that is the point of this pressure cooker situation of #MusicEveryDay after all.

Many hours later than I anticipated I started this “Retro Revival” themed tune. There was an idea I had in my head for quite some time. I used the ai Suno to generate a couple of “Seventies Disco” style tunes, with the input of this special piece of lyrics writing (#NoChatGPT):

I wish I could go back in time And stroll into the disco
The moves and floor, all mine All I ever need to know!
All I ever need to show!
DISCO!!
DISCO!!
Da-da-da-DISCO!!

And then used Lalal.ai to split the vocal from the music. It is like sampling from an old mp3 that was made from an old lp, but then in a scenario where none of the sound ever existed before. Like crate digging without the crates. And the digging is seeing what the ai comes up with. I also sampled a break from one of the generated versions. And added some loops and original parts. Hoping to not create a rift in the time-/space continuum in the meantime. So I still had three hours.

The experiment did make me smile. And this could be the seed of something way more polished in the future. The process is interesting though. Writing lyrics and coming up with a genre prompt that delivers you low-tech vocals that could live as original samples. I am re-discovering the fun of making things that sound like music-ish stuff in this #MusicEveryDay pressure cooker environment.

For the video I first asked Runway Gen-2 to generate New York images from the seventies. After that I used Topaz Video Ai to make it HD and true 25 fps (not the wonky interpolation of Runway Gen-2). And I then fed the result in Runway Gen-1 to do a video-to-video generation in claymation style. And did a bit of editing on that with the usual Adobe software (Premiere and After Effects).

Oh. And I forgot to replace the cover in the video. Pressure!