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HOLO/DYNA [FULL ALBUM] [OpenAI Jukebox in the style of Toto]

The self-titled album HOLO/DYNA(co-composed by OpenAI Jukebox and myself)

TRACKLIST00:00 – 1. Icebreaker – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMyv9sDs1c401:23 – 2. Sundays – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrbOzD2ZFOs05:02 – 3. Getaround / Blackjack – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W02C3mPv_3Q08:35 – 4. My Beautiful – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJmtTCHow-o13:30 – 5. Avonlea – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHSTEfN9fII17:32 – 6. Testament – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJb9oBHEbJ422:23 – 7. Unknown Road – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO_pBN0ba3I27:09 – 8. Give It Time – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNXhUKJPysE28:27 – 9. Your Wings – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4baExwf_ms33:23 – 10. Heaven Could Be – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_PIumf748Y40:24 – 11. Pool Toy Party – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfjz6BMFzzU45:17 – 12. No Quiet – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViGQQuXB8No47:12 – 13. Michael Sean – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAsNRIrgVH852:13 – 14. Stay by Me – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP_QtPYumio

• “What on earth is this??”It’s a Toto(?) album that doesn’t exist!Did it come from a dream?An alternate reality?Is there a difference?something something electric sheep / living in a simulation / what is consciousness…

• “Oh…kaaaay… so, what is this really?”A fun experiment in AI-generated music! Each track that makes up this album was generated from start to finish by an artificial intelligence trained on over a million songs across various musical genres, with no musical or lyrical prompting provided by me except that its output should be in the style of the band Toto.

• “So an AI did all the work?”Far from it! Despite the music being 100% AI-generated, my creative direction played a fundamental role in the sound of the finished product. I built each track incrementally through a process of randomly generating a large number of 4-second-long alternative continuations, then selecting the version that appealed to me the most and repeating the steps from that point – essentially, navigating an infinitely-branching tree of musical possibilities (spoilers: most of those possibilities are ugly, nonmusical nonsense). This was a painstaking process – left purely to its own devices, the AI would have been exceedingly unlikely to produce results as intentional and coherent as what you are hearing. That is why I credit myself as co-composer.

• “Did you do anything else with the audio after the AI generated it?”Aside from some judicious trims and fades at the boundaries of tracks, I have not edited the audio for content, resequencing, etc. – everything you hear came directly from the AI! I did put considerable effort into making the end product sound as high-quality as possible, however. The finalized audio of each track consists of a blend of several alternative AI-powered upsamplings of the original low-quality generated audio, mixed in a manner that maximizes clarity and provides a pseudo-stereo effect. The resulting tracks were mastered for uniformity across the album.

• “Cool! Where can I learn more?”Join the Jukebox community!https://discord.gg/6At7WwM

About OpenAI Jukebox: https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/

Album art animation generated using Artbreeder: https://www.artbreeder.com/Animation interpolated using Butterflow: https://github.com/dthpham/butterflowThumbnail template by GraphicBurger: https://graphicburger.com/vinyl-record-psd-mockup/

Audio mixed and mastered in Audacity 3 and iZotope Ozone 9Video assembled and rendered in VEGAS Pro 15

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