This was created during the two week Colab Fellowship by Jaaga and Islington Mill UK — supported by British Council and Goethe Institute India
All my work — analog as well as digital, physical and virtual have included sound design. For live performances the main conversation has been over the music and for the films I create — music is the parallel story that adds another dimension to the narrative.
I mostly collaborate on the music with composers, sound designers and engineers. And the tools used have been analogue, acoustic, digital as well as software.
Here is a film that was created with Sandeep Pillai with a terribly low quality PA microphone without any sound proofed studio or software :
This was my first exposure to create a particular style of music using AI and ML. Right now it seems to be a fun game to play together — but the possibilities are endless.
Coucou helps create Bach-like music and exports it in midi form — which in turn can be taken elsewhere to orchestrate.
Oona # 1 Oona # 2
Notes to Self : keep space for the Collab-o-robots to jam
Oona #3 Oona #4
Robots Revolted!!!
with no space to work or jam they just stood around — arms folded — shaking their heads disapprovingly. — –
Oona #0
Pay attention to the keys!
Coucou midi exports the music in 4 layers of harmony. It has a constraint that it can only create 8 bars at a time.
So I decided to use the constraints to guide my palette to create.
I saved my original input which was quite staccato as I wanted the robots to fill in the chorales
you can see it visually below
Then I set the robots to work
This is what they added — Machine Output — with chorales included.
From this I got two midi files each contributing 4 layers to my orchestra —
Though I work with Audition and Pro Tools — I took it to Garage Band as it is comes free with Macs — wanting to explore what it offers.
I don’t believe in the hierarchy of a tool — its the aptness and creative uses of a tool that matters
Instead of going into coucou multiple times to extract a longer piece to work with. I decided that it would be great to work with only one set of my input and machine output as my palette and create the music with just that. The plan is to introduce each and then intertwine them to see if we can create really a piece together.
4 layers of my ORIGINAL INPUT + 4 layers of 🐦 MACHINE OUTPUT
=Bach Bash
Assign different instruments on Garage band create an Orchestra
If you have created something through this method do share — would love to create an Audio reacted music video for it for fun!