I've been thinking about how to draw a distinction between ethical and non-ethical generative #Art
For instance, I like using the bit art & mandelbrot bots to start collages. These are randomly and mathematically derived. Ethical, imo.
Contrast that against the LLM's which are built off of stealing people's labor (sound familiar?). Largely unethical, imo.
Another sort of generative art that I'm involved with is #DataSonification & #Image2BonkWave. These use a copy left python script and open source DAW's producing #CreativeCommons music. Ethical and quite badass, imo.
Damn. Should have been Synaesthetic not Synaesthesic in my track title the other day. No-one pointed that out, you should all feel ashamed. Or maybe you were all just being polite 😂
My latest #Image2BonkWave experiment is a collaboration with @SrRochardBunson, who provided the image that forms the basis of the composition.
As with previous experiments none of this would have been possible without @yonder's amazing #Python script doing the hard work of #Image2MIDI conversion.
As always no MIDI notes were harmed (aka altered), only suitable instruments and plugins were used to best represent the vision of the original artist.
@yonder wrote a python script and at least 4 people have already used it to turn pictures into music with no AI involved! The same sort of thing that NASA is using to hear black holes!
@keefmarshall is the latest one and you have to click to Soundcloud to get the full picture. The track sonicates from left to right and pans as it progresses.
I freaking love your trippy visual videos! I think that I may have asked you, but are they covered by a #creativecommons license where anyone could use them, with attribution?
I think that they would make great #BonkWave music videos! How hard is it to make a longer version?
You can be a pig or a dog
With nepotism
You're still the one that's getting the job
With nepotism
People say that this isn't fair
It's nepotism
But you've got too much power to care
With nepotism
On the corporate web you'll see something delightful and inexplicable and inevitably find out it was a carefully placed marketing campaign that reaches an obscene saturation before being abruptly cut.
On the fedi tho I like how I think I heard this music #bonkwave either exactly one day all day or it never existed and there is no way for me to know which.
@sknob@axwax As a Doctor of Musical Arts, I hereby validate that this track bonks very hard and can be considered part of, or even a definition in itself of, Bonkwave. Or not, as the case may be.
I finally got round to sorting out my #Python on Windows (usually I just used it in WSL or on my server) and had a first play with the GUI app aka example-07. Naturally I had to use the Bonk Knob Records logo 😂
I just used the default settings to generate a MIDI file, then loaded it into Ableton, used a random VST for every of the 8 tracks (including the drums), pitched some tracks down by an octave and slapped on some FX.