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AI all the way down… a music/text collaboration using Dials: ‘Small Gifts’
“In that moment it seemed as if all the hidden terrors and monstrosities of Earth had become articulate in an effort to overwhelm the human race.” - The Transition of Juan Romero, H.P. Lovecraft
I only used Dials in a small way on this, the ‘Vintage Exciter’ preset on final mix down. The words were written by another SoundCloud artist, Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches,
whose own spoken word efforts caught my attention, and who suggested we collaborate.
It was ‘AI all the way down’ because I built the speaking voice in Elevenlabs.io, the artwork was generated in Dream using the text of the poem as prompt, and the sequence driving the Saga and ID800 synths was also the (entire, very short) poem, fed into Textquencer.
The line in the poem about ‘gifts from the ice age reverberate ‘ put me in mind of Lovecraft’s ideas of deep time, and the persistence of things from eras before our own manifesting in horrible ways into our own, of which his lesser known story, The Transition Of Juan Romero is an example. (Frankly, a better title than story, but hey, even the Master had off days…)
I’m certainly going to be using Dials more front and centre elsewhere, but here it just did a nice job of taking off some harsh edges in the original composition, and gluing everything together.
The main thing I took away from this collaboration was that the AI and generative elements were as much collaborators as the human that kicked it all off. Visions of a hybrid future…
Enjoy!
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Dials is definitely great as a channel strip, that’s been my use for it the last few months… big old vangelis vibe in those horns!
Very cool as usual, dig the horns and spoken word stuff a lot. Will definitely check Elevenlabs.io - thnx for the tip!
Elevenlabs.io - pretty impressive just now in my brief trial!
Digging a bit deeper, definitely some voices are hugely better than others. I could definitely see myself using this in tracks though! Have you tried making it sing by putting it through any pitch correction apps etc yet? Pity they don't have a William Burroughs or Tom Waits voice yet 😝
@Gavinski : I don’t have a good pitch tool yet, but it’s a thought. But making a unique voice? that’s the whole point, depending on how, ah, ‘flexible’ you want to be regarding original source material. Find yourself five minutes or so of just the exposed character voice you want to use - Waits and Burroughs are both great calls, btw, as they are so distinctive. Maybe Leonard Cohen too….
Find an interview, them reading some story or poem, whatever, the content doesn’t matter - slice yourself 10 to 25 random fragments of that, selected from across the whole of your slices, each about 5 to ten seconds long, feed the takes into the Elevenlabs site, hit the button, and it’ll create you a custom voice. I did it all on iPad using AudioShare and screen grabs. Easy. To access the custom option, you have to sign up, minimum tier 5$ a month, first month 80% off, so a dollar to try it, and then cancel…
I’ve also tried some interesting experiments. 50/50 Christopher Lee and Vincent Price for example gives you an unstable voice which morphs between somewhat recognisable versions of both of those and, randomly, an unknown female voice. (Something about the soft, ‘feminine’ aspect in Mr Price’s delivery, I think.) Think a sonic version of those transition stages in visual AI as it morphs from Joe Blow to Tom Cruise. Quite interesting in its way…
You definitely channel the dark side. We all follow our muse. Would love, lol, to hear Some K-Pop from you!
Awesome work @Svetlovska can I ask what are you using for that horn/cs80-ish lead?
Nice tip! I would definitely pay 5 bucks a month for custom voices, hell yeah. Character limits apply but still not bad, especially when you stretch the heck out of them in audiostretch etc 😁 I'm not planning on using these voices to write audiobooks so don't need unlimited characters / words per month.
I've mentioned it here before, but this app has some pretty decent voices as one-off IAPs. Maybe not quite up to the standard of the best elevenlabs options, but pretty decent. I use it a lot to listen to text when I don't want to read.
https://apps.apple.com/app/voice-dream-reader/id496177674
They had a Scottish voice which was great and which I still have on my device, but I sadly don't see it among the current IAPs
Slightly O/T but is there a form of FM voice synthesis? I’ve got a slightly ocd thing I want to finish that’s about counting and I’ve used FM for all of it so far, but I want some numbers reading out, and using FM for the voice would feed my obsessional complex slightly 😅
@LinearLineman : K-pop? Now you are scaring me!
@wired2moon : that was a preset, Deep 4lgor17hms from this third party preset pack for the id700:
https://dreammusictemple.gumroad.com/,
plus YaleD reverse delay, Alteza reverb, BarkFilter Tripleband, and Dials Vintage Exciter.
@Gavinski : I’ll check it out. I’m thinking of doing some long form pieces, posting my horror fiction, with music, to YouTube, so something half decent without a character limit could be very useful…
@Krupa - IAA only, but you could try Apesoft Sparkle, https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/sparkle-cross-synthesis/id818477094 , which imposes the envelope of one sound on the waveform of another: numbers station counting onto ID700 FM mebbe…
Interesting thought, I do have that and no problems using iaa, I was half expecting a web page tbh 😅 ta!
This is really cool. I think you’ve found your strike zone.
I’m going to play this through my home stereo later. It’s going to scare the shit out of the coyotes.
Not always a fan of the spoken word ‘stuff’ but this hit the spot. Tremendously inventive as always 👌
@ben: ha! Coyotes! Over here in the UK the only coyote we know about is Wile E.
Hope they liked it 
@GeoTony : thanks!
Simply oozing with creepy atmosphere! Lovely!