Daily Drops  6.09.2024

AI & (fake) songwriting: a project

Featuring Cylindrical Rhythmia from Jeryia J.  Enjoy

Cylindrical Rhythmia

Loop beat w/Rhythmic Theremin Noise. Bass & keys solos too

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Good Times for a Change

Good Impression

https://youtu.be/vyy6v90VSVw?si=x_earpKvDJFin4H_

Gamma Waves

Lyrics: Mick Hansan
Music: AI

LYRICS (with deliberate grammatical errors)

[Assistant costumer]
Creating 8752 songs means
you’re not just playing around
you’re mastering this craft.
Every new track is another step forward in your artistry.
We can’t wait to see
where your music takes you next.
where the hell your music takes you next.
where the hell your music takes us next.

[Costumer]
Thank you, but the results
are always horrendous
Even an infant would understand
that it is fake music.
Fortunately, you will never be able to replicate
the soul and heart of real musicians,
you will only continue to produce plastic
that is useless to humanity,
valuable only to your bank accounts.
to your bank accounts
to your bank accounts
to your fucking bank accounts

[Assistant costumer]
Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.
We appreciate you taking the time to report this,
as it helps us identify areas for improvement
and ensure that we provide
the best possible experience for our users.
helps us to identify
helps us please
there are areas for improvement
for improvement

ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
uh uh uh uh uh uh uh

[Assistant costumer]
Your feedback is valuable to us,
and we will investigate the issue
Please feel free to reach out
if you have any additional information.
helps us to identify
helps us please
there are areas for improvement
for improvement

[Costumer]
‘to identify areas for improvement’.
Perhaps I was not clear enough:
the music that is produced
with your software is vomitous,
it is rubbish, it is absolute nothingness.
it is absolute nothingness.
it is rubbish
it is absolute vomitous rubbish

[Assistant costumer]
Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.
We appreciate you taking the time to report this,
as it helps us identify areas for improvement
and ensure that we provide
the best possible experience for our users.
helps us to identify
helps us please
there are areas for improvement
for improvement

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uh uh uh uh uh uh uh

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1. Dialogue between an AI Customer Service and an AI songwriter [lyrics in the description area]

"There is initiative required to pursue a relationship with a woman or a musical instrument; how often they are alike in their demands ... Ultimately, we are destined for forced labor where no thinking is required" (words of David Dunham, taken by his comment here below). Is artistic imagination destined to disappear, and will humanity indulge in total creative laziness (in music, art, literature), delegating to artificial intelligence the fulfilment of needs that have contributed to human progress? 

Lyrics: Mick Hansan
Music: AI

When I started going to school
I wondered why it was necessary to waste my time
days locked in a classroom listening to
of history mathematics physics, it was a crime

Then I finally got my high school diploma
I got the most with the least effort
I cheated the teachers with great serenity
luckily I wasn't forced to enrol at university

Of course, it was time to work
I didn't know how to do anything.
I worked at McDonald's, at Amazon, at Burger King
It takes a lot of talent to have no skill
It takes a lot of talent to have no skill
never having anything to will

I got married to a good woman
all house, church, shopping, baloney
Being from a good family
there was no shortage of money

We didn't have children, I didn't want them
It would have been too much work to bring them up
Besides, she chose in her spare time finally
working for free as a baby sitter in other families

I kept on doing my daily job
I didn't know how to do anything.
I worked at McDonald's, at Amazon, at Burger King
It takes a lot of talent to have no skill
It takes a lot of talent to have no skill
never having anything to will

One day my wife asked me for a divorce
I'm sure she didn't have another man
All she said to me was: ‘I'm not your watchman
and it's time to take an holiday from you.
A very long holiday: until I die, or you’

Deep down I didn't even mind
it was better to have an empty house
where I could safely indulge in idleness
without anyone pointing it out to me
renouncing any form of activeness

On the other hand I kept working
even though I didn't know how to do anything.
I worked at McDonald's, at Amazon, at Burger King
It takes a lot of talent to have no skill
It takes a lot of talent to have no skill
never having anything to will

One day I thought: why not learn to play the piano?
It takes time and effort, maybe is better the ping pong
The guitar? And to do what, 
sing a Frank Sinatra's old and awful song?

But a night while yawning I'm surfing the net
I read about these new programmes, I read about AI
they say that this is quite a little something
without be a hard set
what a beautiful perspective, so eye-catching!
you could write songs 
without even knowing how to do it
make everyone listen to all them 
while you sit in your armchair

That was it, now I ride the wave
I signed up on different platforms
I don't have to use my name
I'm me but I'm not me

I produce several songs a day
have thousands of followers 
they are the flies, 
and I am the spider

I can't play anything
I can't sing
I have not to write what I think
but I became a successful songwriter

they are the flies, and I am the spider
I can't play anything
I can't sing
I have not to write what I think
but I'm a successful songwriter
they are the flies, and I am the spider

And if my wife had not already 
asked for and obtained the divorce
I would have done it by now

2. A talented man [lyrics in the description area]

Inside Me / an open invitation for a collab 
from Ian Greaves aka (IPG1)
Vocal and Lyrics Ian Greaves aka (IPG1)
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/inside-me-vocals-96-bpm
Paploviante: Bass, Music, mix and mastering

Inside Me - IPG1 & Paploviante

The generative artificial intelligence music creation programs offer a tendentially endless amount of musical ‘styles’ from which to choose for the song one wishes to generate. Here the subject of the song is surreal and improbable, and obviously forces the ‘songwriter’ to ask himself which 'style' would be the better to use ...

Anyway, the book really exists: https://www.amazon.it/Why-Doesnt-Pizza-Grow-Trees/dp/0692535985/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=2JO95QEX179BB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.abs6Fp6MQblRCjyXZbwu_w.PEJ8cBuMNRVpBW-FEz1OmGd7Yu3wT6eUce3gh88AmYg&dib_tag=se&keywords=Why+doesn%27t+the+pizza+grow+on+trees&qid=1725551030&sprefix=why+doesn%27t+the+pizza+grow+on+trees%2Caps%2C95&sr=8-1


I would like to write a song on this theme:
Why doesn't pizza grow on trees?
It was the title of a book I saw on Amazon
I took note, seems a dream of times long gone

At this point the problem is very simple
a song about such a deep topic
cannot be solved with a sleazy jingle
and AI offers me so many chances, something exotic

"so tell me which is the cut that you prefer
these are all the specialities of your coiffeur:
portuguese barbershop,
afro house dembow
alternative r&b dembow
kawaii future bass
mandarin drum and bass
metal grunge, coptic grunge
choral bedroom pop
dark electro-pop
dreamy acoustic rock
hindi acoustic rock".

it is very difficult to choose in all this goodness
I could change the theme of the song
and give it an extra touch of sweetness
why doesn't chocolate-pizza too on the trees grow?

But even then you have to choose a kind of music.
I'm not someone who likes to improvise
or rely on fate, bets, luck, and this is not a cube of Rubik
I would like to get good advice
from someone who has already experienced this game
but to ask a songwriter would be a blamed shame

"so tell me which is the cut that you prefer
these are all the specialities of your coiffeur:
garage tango,
grime tango,
arabic ambient techno
acid techno
delta blues house
urdu house
afro-cuban jazz crunk
crunk punk
egyptian flamenco
surf flamenco
acoustic blues slushwave
breakstep synthwave
surf acoustic blues
bengali swamp blues
dreamy bubblegum dance
mexican dance
dark goa trance
hypnagogic ambient trance
soulful acid trance".

I am very undecided
too many options, it's a hard-discount
which one of these did better sounded?
I need to talk to an expert about

to a musician futurist
to a psychoanalyst
to a phylantropist
to a sadomasochist
to an exorcist
to an artificial intelligentist
to the Unicef
to a pizza chef

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Lyrics: Mick Hansan
Music: AI
Posted on SoundCloud: 2024, September 5

3. Why doesn't pizza grow on trees? [lyrics in the description area] *

When knowledge (not only music) will be managed in its multiple forms by Artificial Intelligence, what will become of - for example - old institutions such as universities? Will they become completely useless, as they already are to some extent? And what will become of those huge spaces, often located in the centre of ancient cities? It is a future that appears from time to time in my dreams; more than dreams, they are nightmares.

LYRICS

I dreamt about my university last night
the last reform had just come into effect
I wandered lost among the usual spaces
but nothing was familiar to me any more
Nothing was the same as before

There were video terminals mounted
at the entrance of the rectorate,
of the classrooms, of the department,
near the notice boards of the establishment.

There were video terminals
where the busts had been removed
from the pedestals
busts of Dante, Bartolo, Baldo,
Meazza, Petrarch, Ronaldo,
Braudel, Mommsen, Foucault
Nietzsche, Cicero, Hinault,
Marx, Elizabeth, Chapman
Shakespeare, Aristotle, Lachmann,
Goethe, Fassbinder, Gerd Müller
Charlemagne, Dostoevsky, Luther
Gutenberg, Chomsky, Schopenhauer
Kubrick, Garcia Marquez, Beckenbauer.

There were video screens mounted everywhere
They broadcast draws and virtual races
The big gambling holdings
had taken over all the university spaces
On the vaults of the long arcade
that led to the legal peddling of amphetamines
danced shadows cast
by the glittering games of the slot machines.

there were memorable adventures
to be discovered and rehearsed
To unwrap blindfolded goddess,
steal the treasures of the Pyramids,
disturb the animals of the savannah,
booking Nile cruises in the company of Cleopatra,
Burning Ocean, Lara Croft, Xcalibur,
ride the tigers of the Far East,
hunt down Irish leprechauns,
rob the gold mine,
challenging brave knights and fearsome ogres,
getting lost in the lost city.

I dreamt about the university last night
the reform had just come into effect
I wandered bewildered among the cyber-spaces
but nothing was familiar to me any more
Nothing was the same as before

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Lyrics: Mick Hansan (2024)
Music: AI
Posted on SoundCloud: 2024, September 7.

4. I dreamt about the University last night [lyrics in the description area] *

More and more strange people are appearing on social networks and also on platforms such as SoundCloud: meagre or improbable biographies, fake photographs, and above all AI-generated products offered to the community. Sometimes declaring it, sometimes not. Evidently, those who do not declare it have more luck: not everyone has yet developed the habit and the ear, not everyone can yet distinguish between what is an authentic song and what is not. Some will think: so what? Is there any difference? True, perhaps it is a difference that will become less and less important. It is only a matter of time, and the AI song will be indistinguishable from those created by humans.

Here, the lyrics, with these metrics and kissing rhymes, are entirely generated by AI. This exemplifies what AI-generated lyrics are like. The software can create, potentially, infinite versions of the same song, changing its melody and style (depending on your instructions). The AI does not know if a song that it creates is good or bad. You decide to stop the process when you are satisfied with the result.

So to demonstrate an example of various possibilities, I have combined in a single MP3 file, all 4 versions which I produced. You can download them if you want.
Do you feel like you've heard this song or this singer’s voice on SoundCloud before? Not possible, but you have certainly heard something similar or very similar before.

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To not offer a kind of tutorial, I don'I post here all the prompts and instructions given to the software to generate the song. But when you see, among the lyrics published, 'tag' such as [verse], [bridge], [chorus], it is very likely that the music of that song was generated by AI; and often also the lyrics.

She types away late at night
AI helps her get it right
In her room under the glow
Lyrics flow they start to show

She posts her songs on the cloud
Makes her fans all cheer out loud
In a world of beats and sound
Her true self is never found

Deception in the digital space
Wears a friendly smiling face
Online world a perfect mask
In her secret she can bask

Oh the Cloud deceiver
Oh the tale she spins
A ghost in the machine
In the world she wins
With chords and whispers
AIs’ glow
She leads the world by strings
They’ll never know

In the RPG she's strong
Plays the game she can't go wrong
Role-playing her crafted fate
Hiding behind a screen so great

But in this game of text and code
She's not truly on the road
Living lives that never blend
Is she real or just pretend

Deception in the digital space
Wears a friendly smiling face
Online world a perfect mask
In her secret she can bask

Her community doesn’t know
What they hear is echo's glow
AI’s script
Her clever muse
Wrote a tune without a bruise
Oh
She's a phantom
In the wires
Virtual secrets
Hidden fires
In the realm of ones and zeros
She's the songbird
Unsung hero

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Posted on SoundCloud: 2024, September 8.

5. Cloud Deceiver [4 versions - MP3 file free download - lyrics in the description area] **

UPDATE (9/9/2024):
The project is over.
Please follow me, if interested, on the principal SoundCloud page: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani

 Here I have only posted six songs in English created in collaboration with AI. The rules were: I write the lyrics (with only two exceptions), AI proposes the music to me, after following (if possible) my prompts. In the end I'm the one who chooses. Of course, this is just a bit of fun, the purpose of which is only to use AI to criticise the increasing exploitation of AI in songwriting. It's true: the problems posed by artificial intelligence go far beyond the music's issue (which still has important social and industrial implications). But, if nothing else, we should defend and claim the time and energy we have invested in music.

* Here where I am the national anthem is the "AI sucks song" (https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/ai-sucks-song and https://soundcloud.com/joseph-stroffolino/ai-sucks-song)

1. Dialogue between an AI Customer Service and an AI songwriter [lyrics in the description area]

Mick Hansan - AI & (FAKE) SONGWRITING: A PROJECT