June & July 2024
Total Number of Tracks: 7 + 5 + 12 + 10 + 24 + 12 + 14 + 16 + 14 + 18 + 5 = 137
Approx Average Track Length: 3 minutes (with one 18-minute track)
Estimated Total Creative Output: 426 minutes (7 hours and 6 minutes)
Work Time: scattered throughout June & July, 2024, from 6-8am
Total Work Time: approx 21 hours (including washroom & coffee breaks)
Average # of Tracks rejected: 2/3
Average Time per Track: 3 minutes work = 1 minute music
Average Approx rendering Time: 20-40sec delay, then real-time
Tool used: Suno
Total Cost: $20 USD
Musical Skill Needed: None
Skill Needed: Language (+ playfulness & persistence)
→ June 13 2024 (Suno+ReRites): 5 track playlist. Single prompt: "attempting discontinuities with soft math-luminous-lo-fi, quirky female, syncopated microtonalities and cloud-rap slushwave".
→ ReRites (July 24th 2024, Francais): 24 track playlist: All songs prompted and translated (from English using Claude.ai and GPT-4) on (you guessed it) July 24th, 2024 using lyrics generated Feb 23rd, 2018 in the human+AI poetry project ReRites.
→ The next day, in an empty hour and a half, I prompted 12 tracks: ReRites (July 25th 2024) using variations on one prompt: "quirky female vocalist, syncopated experimental glitch-mellow-chill-dub groove cello-chime-balafon-splice-edm-polyphony-joy".
→ 3 days later, I prompted 14 tracks: ReRites (July 28th 2024) primarily using the prompt: “quirky syncopated experimental glitch progressive-dub-lo-fi, cloudslush dreamwave splice-swerve vapor-jazz”.
→ Next day, the same pre-breakfast prompt-ritual produced 16 tracks: ReRites (July 29th 2024) of “soft-math-joy experimental chamber-cello-jazz-edm splice-swerve swarm syncopated progressive dub-lo-fi ambient joy water light”.
→ That afternoon, I prompted 14 tracks: ReRites (July 29th 2024, pt.2) of “soft Ambient-Experiment syncopated microtonalities cloud-rap slushwave bass-House-Glitch-Dub-Emo-anti-folk joy”.
→ Another pre-breakfast playlist on 18 tracks: ReRites (July 30th 2024) of “soft Ambient-Experiment syncopated microtonalities overtone bass-kora-house-Glitch-Dub joy, quirky soaring choral vocals”.
→ On July 24, I set out to see how long an ambient-lo-fi track can be using Suno v.3.5, and 30 some minutes later had an 18 minute track, Eternity Muzak #2 made using a single prompt “contrapuntal syncopated experimental tuvu lofi deep house joy”. It's the final track on my glitchy lo-fi playlist Layers of Nowehere: The latent space within latency.
→ 1.1.1: ambient infinite lo-fi love (June 23rd, 2024): All tracks generated with a single prompt "ambient infinite lo-fi love", then remixed and extended on June 23rd, 2024. 10 tracks.
→ Extensions (June 14, 2024): Playing with recursive feeds: Suno fed to Suno. 7 tracks.
→ Suno Feeding Suno (June 18, 2024, 2:32-4:29pm): A recursive polpyphonic maximalist collage structure. Feeding mixes of Suno output back to Suno. Prompt: "no idea, just oneness" - 12 tracks.
In 2010, Robert Fitterman noted that: "Conceptual Writing, in fact, might best be defined not by the strategies used but by the expectations of the readership or thinkership." [4] Similarily, prompting a music generator is like pulling a slot machine lever. Artistic strategies have a minimal impact. "Pure conceptualism negates the need for reading in the traditional textual sense—one does not need to 'read' the work as much as think about the idea of the work." [5] Perhaps AI-music is pure conceptualism that emerges from the data-swamp of the sum of humanity's musical explorations. As such, it does not require us to listen to every track (how can one listen to audio which exceeds multiple lifespans?). Instead, infinite abundance requires us to rethink creativity. Rebirth the listenership.
And the implications of emotive-AI potency for propaganda and indoctrination are immense; as it is for the immediacy of self-expression, the constant creative churn of thought into melody.
