Participants 2023
About the TEAM
Rui and Micha met during an online Ableton class hosted by Micha. Rui used one of the classes to share his infilling plugin in Ableton with his infilling model with the class. Micha was venturing deep into the AI bubble while following his passions beyond music production and began hosting classes about NFTs, AI and Digital Art. Rui is an AI music researcher, training models to generate symbolic music with different levels of control.
About the SONG
It's about a journey from childhood to adulthood set against the backdrop of Brooklyn, New York. Growing up surrounded by a vibrant culture and moving through the ages, beginning with the '90s, this song is about growth and change, before our character eventually settles down to start a family.
About the HUMAN-AI PROCESS
Micha and Rui had six Zoom sessions to create a jazzy hip-hop song. Rui recommended using Meta's musicgen to generate ideas first with text input. We started with a prompt proposed by Micha: "Brooklyn jazz trio, upright bass, trumpet, brush sticks, mid-tempo, in a subway" in musicgen. After getting some interesting results from musicgen, we tried several tools to separate different tracks. Using Ableton, we combined these results with vocals from an acapella from a rap group, and added interesting drum generations from Google Magenta, and vocals generated from murf.ai and chat d-id. Micha also added traditional drum loops, editing, and regenerating some parts before implementing post-production.
We took four days for new content generation, from August 23rd to 26th. On the 27th and 28th, we were doing the arrangement, sound effects, and mastering using Virtu AI mastering. All our song creation process is recorded by zoom and those zoom sessions plus the recap session are in the video list which is open to share.
BTS - &i
Lyrics
Home of the original gun clappers
was a hustler slash thug that turned into a rapper"
You know where we’re from we Brooklyn
And what we represent.. New York
That's why they always asking..
Where’s did you find this ??
Talk to ‘em
(Piano Solo)
(Go Brooklyn /. Brooklyn Baby)
Brooklyn
Talk that talk, baby girl
Brooklyn’s always in the house
I’m a Brooklyn Baby
Where’d you find this
Go Brooklyn .