Song Made By AI Gets Stunning 360° Music Video
Taryn Southern is an artist, singer, producer and popular YouTuber. Danny Bittman is one of the most prolific creators of immersive art in the world today. And together they have created Life Support — a piece of music composed and created entirely by artificial intelligence.
Danny Bittman: Taryn and I first worked closely for a month to define the story. We ultimately wanted to display someone who was plugged into a fantastical motion based immersion system, I.E their life support system, but we wanted to convey that some kind of balance between VR and RR is necessary in order to maintain sanity.
I wanted to keep the streak going though, so I used the virtual overlay in conjunction with Adobe Premiere’s live 360 previewer. It was quiet a dream as a traditional filmmaker to utilize my old workflows while working with this new Medium. Actually, the only difference between traditional film editing and this 360 workflow was that instead of having a 2D monitor taking up my UI space, my world became my monitor. I had so much more room in Adobe for my timeline and color correction nodes.
We knew most people would be watching this video on their phones, not on headsets – so we wanted to be cognizant to create a great visual experience for them. The downside, of course, is then you have to make choices that can negatively effect the headset experience.
At the end of the day, while Taryn focuses of music and I focus on visuals, we are both just trying to figure out how to partner with emerging technology to prototype and polish our ideas faster. While Taryn worked with Amper’s AI to create Life Support, she still used her creativity to select, tweak, and add to the ideas her computer generated.
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