Diwas ft. CHEPANG, Kutumba, and Hari Maharjan Project
AI Song Contest 2021 / participantsTEAM / Diwas ft. CHEPANG, Kutumba, and Hari Maharjan Project
SONG / Dreaming of Nepal
TEAM MEMBERS / Diwas Bhattarai
LISTEN AND EVALUATE Dreaming of Nepal
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MORE ABOUT THIS ENTRY BELOW
ABOUT THE TEAM
CHEPANG has released two albums expressing extreme grindcore music. Their work and thinking is progressively growing towards doing new things, always moving forward. This project started out by training on their latest album CHATTA and later evolved into exploring SampleRNN with varying music from Nepal.
ABOUT THE SONG
This song is a glimpse into a rich musical heritage of Nepal. It takes listeners starting from cultural Nepali music through fusion then grindcore and finally back ending on traditional music.
ABOUT THE HUMAN-AI CO-CREATION PROCESS
Samples generated from many SampleRNN models trained on traditional, fusion, and grincode music from Nepali artists from different epochs were curated, edited (sliced largely to omit noise and other unwanted artifacts) in Logic Pro. Minor EQ and reverb was applied along with a limiter. Images were generated using VQGAN+CLIP by @rivershavewings using two seeds on the same text ‘rich diversity of music from Nepal’.