GOOD RIDDANCE (Prod. CBAS)

Here comes Bottuneem, genre-bending flame
Space travel dreams calling your name
Vamos to epic beach battles on cosmic sand
Metal hearts united in this jazz band
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Hello, all.  All the music you hear here (here hear?) was generated by artificial intelligence... hold on... based on human prompting by the human (not AI) writing this, namely: me.
There. 
Now. 
This whole thing that may come off as a disclaimer we would probably laugh about a few years from now when AI-generated music is so prevalent it’s actually the norm and it’s the other way around – actual, genuine, organic, human-and-the-less-you-rely-on-electricity-to-make-your-music-the-better music makers (yes, careful choice of words there) will be the ones proudly saying, “Hey, this is REAL over here!!” and AI music makers won’t be in the least inclined to have to clarify anything at all.  At least two acquaintances – an amateur musician as myself (well, if Tenet Bum does not credit me as a musician in your book due to AI use then check out my other 100% non-AI projects: Arcachata, Xitx and Loretti Shur) and a mastering engineer were not able to detect this was AI.  Maybe, and since I am a great believer in being genuine, this is what leads me to feel the need to clarify, since I prefer to be transparent, and don’t want to mislead or fool anyone.
All that said, I think AI is just another tool, and that it should be used wisely and responsibly.  Like, you know, you'd use any other tool. It’s extremely important to note that these songs were all the result of very creative prompting, and only the tip of the iceberg of what the AI generated, meaning most of its generations were discarded.  Some songs had to be twisted, cut, bent, folded, exploded, put together again; churned, sure, caressed, but then also beat up with a heck of a monster of a hammer -- in order to get the desired results.  So again, just another way of making music.  This is all too new, and thus all of this explanation which, again, might be laughable very soon, is necessary, as with any other game-changing, tenet-upturning technological revolution.
By the way, all the humans here portrayed are merely avatars, as you might have guessed.  All artwork, except certain edits and text placements, are also, as you might readily see, AI too.
Tenet Bum is here to prove that human-prompted, AI-generated music can still be creative, non-formulaic, diverse, and entertaining.  The albums, of course, had to be multigenre.
The thing Rick Beato said the other day that what AI generates is all what other people made before… WHAT isn’t what other people have made before, in any human endeavor?  We walk on the shoulders of giants, don’t we?  Didn’t Mustaine and Hetfield emulate Motorhead, even admittedly?  And Killing Joke?  And not to mention Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham emulating so many American blues artists that came before them?  Whenever making songs for Arcachata, Blades is on my mind, Korn is on my mind, Santa Sabina is on my mind, Bartok is on my mind, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult is on my mind no matter how much, by the way, that DAW programmed music may sound like Ruben Blades, Korn, Santa Sabina, Bartok or MLWTTKK.  But a little of that and hundreds of others is what drives the inspiration forward – whether that be playing, programming… or prompting.
But enough with the philosophy.  Hit play and crank it.  Cheers!
Adolfo

GOOD RIDDANCE (Prod. CBAS)

Scottie the 3rd