Greetings. I'm still working on my second career: as a songwriter and music video director. Although I can neither play nor sing, and can barely take a decent selfie, the modern magic of AI makes anything possible, and YouTube makes publishing easy.
I have posted two additional videos,
“Stop Killing Charlie” draws parallels between two political murders.
“The Meaning of Life” memorializes a friendship that ended too soon.
Last week, I released “Don't Like Rock and Roll Anymore”, my MAGA origins story, “Madison, In the Spring of '70”, a reminiscence of my folly in my first romance, and “Quantum Love”, about the relevance of quantum physics to lost love.
If you enjoy them, please “like” them and subscribe to my channel.
More than thirty more videos will follow. I intend to release new material every week.
Thank you for watching.
miramar dreams songs
Some of you have asked me about the video creation process. I start by writing a poem based on a memory, experience, literature, or some occurrence in this crazy world.
I use Suno AI to transform the poem into song. In Suno AI I use prompts and styles to customize the voices and melodies to the lyrics. Prompts are bracketed instructions to Suno. Styles define the overall genre of the music.
Below as an example is a prompted text of the opening of Mansions Built on Dreams Must Fall.
Alt indie folk rock fusion, jangly electric guitar, duet, pads, steady percussion, mellow bass, arpeggiating piano
[intro]
[verse]
It began with a plan of a visionary man:
To escape summer heat, he built a hilltop retreat.
A playground for his daughters, a respite for his friends,
A bastion against that epoch’s epidemic contagions.
But even then, social distance was an imperfect means,
For battling against infectious disease.
The girls sickened and died, leaving bitter memories,
That poisoned the grounds where the mansion stood.
So, it was shunned by its heirs, abandoned in a lonely wood.
[pre-chorus]
When the visionary died, his heirs were undecided,
How mansion and land should be used or divided.
They squabbled and dithered, so the property withered.
[instrumental break]
[chorus]
With no one around, the mansion burned to the ground.
Now the mansion’s a pile of overgrown stones.
Nothing else remains of this beloved summer home
But its forest is now the finest park of the town.
[instrumental break]
Prompts must be bracketed, otherwise the AI will interpret them as part of the song.
I create the prompted lyrics in Word, then copy and paste the text into the lyrics field in Suno. Then I set the styles, and hit the create tab. In about 2 minutes, Suno creates two versions of the song. Suno offers some advanced studio editing features, but they’re too complicated for me. I just vary the styles and create new versions until Suno produces a song that I like.
To create the videos, I upload completed Suno songs into AT Labs AI, which automatically transcribes the lyrics. It suggests characters to populate the video, and you can add, delete, or change these characters using text prompts. At Labs then creates a series of scenes suggested by the lyrics, and a storyboard which you can change, using text prompts, to adapt their scenes to your vision of the video. When you change the storyboard, you edit the scene, and the images of your revised storyboard replace the original.
Then, I upload the completed video into YouTube and the audio into an app called DistroKid which populates the streaming services.
If anyone has any questions you can post them here or email me.
This hobby is a lot of work, but it’s the most fun I’ve had since I was a little kid. Thanks to all of you for supporting me in this.
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