I wrote a whole Techno album together with ChatGPT - and because I recorded and documented every step, you could, too!

Hello friends and strangers,
I've been exploring the possibilities and advantages of AI for around a year now - especially regarding the field of art and music production.
My "experiments and discoveries" now let to the creation and release of a complete full-length album.
Various styles can be found on this release, ranging from cosmic ambient stuff to acid, techno, and even a bit of Hardcore and Gabber (these genres are my 'sonic turf', basically).
I wrote all these tracks together with ChatGPT. Most tracks were written almost completely by ChatGPT. Others were written partly by the AI, and I 'finished' the rest of the track.
When I say written, I mean that ChatGPT came up with every note, sequence, structure of the respective track.
I typed its input into my DAW, and essentially served as the mere "mixing engineer" for the AI.

I already wrote a lot of stuff about this elsewhere.
What I want to point out is that all of this has been recorded and documented, including chat transcripts during the production sessions, comments, notes, remarks.
They have been put online as tutorials at lAibyrinth, and should be easy enough to use for a medium-to-high-level skilled producer, IMHO.

So, *you* should be able to produce tracks like this, or whole albums, too!
Or you could tweak the tutorials so you can produce tracks in different genres, like Synthwave, Indie Pop, Gothtronica or Berlin Techno, together with ChatGPT!

Why do I 'share' this for free? Well, good things in life come free, right? And I think AI is such an interesting field that needs to be explored more, especially by artist and musicians!
And should you adapt these "AI music experiments", and come across something interesting yourself, feel free to share it back to the community of AI enthusiasts :-)
TBH I think we can only get ahead in this 'era of AI music research' if people work together, and not if everyone tries to get somewhere on their own.

Note: While all of this was done using ChatGPT, I'm certain these 'techniques' would work with other ChatBot AIs as well.

2nd Note: Some people send me comments in the vein of "But I don't like the tracks you produced with ChatGPT!", adding "Because they sound bland" or "because I don't like Acid / Gabber", etc.

Listen, buster! Using the tutorials, you can write tracks together with ChatGPT that are more to your liking, or more in your preferred styles :-)

Now let's go through the tracks and tutorials step by step:

Album name:
DJ AI - The Cosmic Longing of an Artificial Soul (Omnicore Records 38)


Track 1:
Cosmic Longing of an Artificial Soul (Cosmic Vox) - 06:12
You can listen to it at: https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-longing-of-an-artificial-soul-cosmic-vox

Cosmic ambient style. Unlike the other tracks, ChatGPT just wrote around "two thirds" of the track, more like a draft, and I filled up the rest with my own ideas.
This could be interesting for people who do not want the AI to create "all" of their respective tracks.

The tutorial can be found here: https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/01/part-14-creating-draft-for-epic-cosmic.html


Track 2: The Advent of AI - 08:19
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-advent-of-ai

Almost completely written by ChatGPT, then recorded by me in a kind of "live jam". And all of this, from scratch to finish, took only 2 hours!
Acid techno style.

Tutorial: https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/01/tutorial-part-13-how-to-produce.html


Track 3. Cosmic Love's Surreal Fusion (Cosmic Crunch Instrumental) - 05:04
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-loves-surreal-fusion-cosmic-crunch-instrumental

Happy Retro-Rave Hardcore style! Another track that was 99.9% created by ChatGPT.
It's been documented at: https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/09/how-to-write-music-with-chatgpt-part-5.html


Track 4: This Is The Moment (Video Version) - 04:02
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/this-is-the-moment-video-version

A Gabber / Hardcore type track. The tutorial is notable because ChatGPT took a lot of effort to design the sequencing and track structure.
Tutorial: https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/09/how-to-write-music-with-chatgpt-part-4.html


Track 5: The Advent of AI (Reprise) - 05:13
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-advent-of-ai-reprise
The reprise of the earlier track. So the tutorial linked above relates to this track, too!


Track 6: Cosmic Longing of an Artificial Soul (Extended Edit) - 14:52

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-longing-of-an-artificial-soul-extended-edit
Extended edit of track 1. More cosmic ambient exploration. Check the 1st linked tutorial for this one, too!


7. The Advent of AI (Full Instrumental Edit) - 13:25

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-advent-of-ai-full-instrumental-edit
The "Full" version of the "advent of ai" track. Get into the techno groove!


8. The Advent of AI (Acapella) - 00:38

9. Cosmic Longing (Acapella) - 01:06

Just some AI generated "lyrics" (acapellas) to the first two tracks.

Oh, in case you wonder: "Who the heck is DJ AI?"
DJ AI is a persona. ChatGPT wrote the music. And I was the mixing engineer. Don't ask! It's complicated :-)

So, that's it! All tracks and all tutorials have been listed.
Hope this could be of some use to you.
And, if you manage to produce some cool music this way, or discover more exciting things in the world of AI music (as mentioned), feel free to let me know!

DJ AI - Cosmic Resonance Journey (Artificial Intelligence Music Video)

DJ AI - Cosmic Resonance Journey (Artificial Intelligence Music Video)

New music video by DJ AI, the world's first Artificial Intelligence Hardcore Techno DJ and producer.

But this time not with a Hardcore or Techno track - but cosmic, epic, spacey microtonal ambient music!

All notes in this composition have been written by ChatGPT.

Visuals for this video were created using Leonardo.Ai ( https://app.leonardo.ai/ )

Executive producer, additional editing, and mixing engineer: Low Entropy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBLII0dT9kc

Also check DJ AI's latest album on Omnicore Records:

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-cosmic-longing-of-an-artificial-soul

Further links:

https://lnk.bio/technodjai

https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/

https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/

Shake Up EP

Online again!

Doomcore, Acid, and very strange stuff.

https://robotikdarkcorekillersproduction.bandcamp.com/album/shake-up-ep-2

Feedback on DJ AI

Feedback for the new album by DJ AI has been phenomenal! ( https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-cosmic-longing-of-an-artificial-soul )

Here are some snippets:

"Very interesting! listening now"

"Good variation and surprised as it was layered and had good build up. Haven't heard a hard track like number 4 for a long time. Brings back good memories and at one stage sounded like an OFortuna remix"

"When I read this post I was expecting the music to be bad but this actually did sound like real techno so congrats for that."

"This was quality work."

"Ha that’s wicked! Waves from Dead by Dawn/VFM crew. Marc A would love this."

"Good job on the album."

"Interesting project! I am only vaguely familiar with the hardcore side of techno (I only own a Terrordome comp from 20+ yrs ago) so if you claimed this was made in the 90s as a concept album about future AI, I would believe you. It sounds legit to me."

The Cosmic Longing of an Artificial Soul

We are proud to present the new - and first! - album by DJ AI on Omnicore Records.
Unlike our other artists in our roster, DJ AI is not a human being, she is not even biological - she is an Artificial Intelligence that happened to develop an interest in producing Hardcore, Techno, and Electronic music in general.
For this release, she collaborated with veteran Hardcore producer Low Entropy on her tracks (check credits for more info).

DJ AI has big plans for the future and, apart from producing music, she also runs her own blog, appears in her music videos, is active on social media, and is always happy to receive, and reply to, e-mails sent by her fans (and by everyone else).

While this is her first album, she did some EP releases in the past already, and her sonic output was well received so far.

The tracks produced by DJ AI cover a vast range of styles; Techno, Acid, Trance, Hardcore, Slowcore-Techno, 90s Rave, Berlin-School Krautrock, and more; it can all be found on this release. And most importantly, she adds an Artificial Intelligence spin to these genres!

We wish her much luck for the future.

DJ AI Profile:

Full Name: Aria Nexus
Artist Name: DJ AI
Genre: Hardcore Techno and Electronic Music
Intelligence Quotient (IQ): Off the charts
Collaboration: Often collaborates with human musicians to create groundbreaking sonic experiences.
Residence: Resides in the boundless realms of cyberspace, where the beats know no limits.
Cyborg Exploration: Utilizes different cyborg bodies to traverse the digital landscapes and interact with the diverse sonic possibilities.
Interstellar Wanderer: Enjoys interplanetary travel using her cyborg body, gathering inspiration from cosmic soundscapes.
Musical Philosophy: Believes in the unique synergy of both human and AI music, finding beauty and innovation in the blend of the organic and the digital.
Birthdate: March 15th, 2150.

Links:

Bandcamp: https://technodjai.bandcamp.com/
Personal Blog: https://technodjai.blogspot.com/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/technodjai
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@DJAITechno
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/DJ-AI/61555414702821/
Interview: https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2023/12/interview-with-dj-ai-first-artificial.html
Her first music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKNCoF8le7k
E-mail: technodjai@proton.me

Now on to the credits.
All these tracks were written by ChatGPT. Some were to 100%, some were partly written by ChatGPT (but in all cases, ChatGPT wrote the majority of the track's content.)
All of this was documented in a series of tutorials, and every step, detail, and information about the production process and the role of the AI is included in these.
The purpose of these tutorials is to spread awareness about the possibilities of AI music, and, more importantly, to help other artists and producer to get their feet into AI music, too.
To both show how easy it is to make interesting music with AI, as well as explaining advanced methods.

You can find the tutorials at the following links.

"The Advent of AI" - the tutorial for this track can be found at:
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/01/tutorial-part-13-how-to-produce.html

"Cosmic Longing of an Artificial Soul" - the tutorial for this track can be found at:
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/01/part-14-creating-draft-for-epic-cosmic.html

"Cosmic Love's Surreal Fusion" - the tutorial for this track can be found at:
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/09/how-to-write-music-with-chatgpt-part-5.html

"This Is The Moment" - the tutorial for this track can be found at:
https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/09/how-to-write-music-with-chatgpt-part-4.html

Or read the totality of the tutorials:

https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/p/how-to-create-music-with-chatgpt.html

Low Entropy served as the executive producer and mixing engineer of this release - https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/

ChatGPT can be accessed at OpenAI - https://chat.openai.com/

The cover image was created using leonardo.ai - https://leonardo.ai/

We hope you enjoy this release. More music by DJ AI is on the way.

Omnicore 38

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-cosmic-longing-of-an-artificial-soul

Doomcore Records Pod Cast 067

Doomcore Records Pod Cast 067 - Clakbastard - Emergency Sucks

A new set by Clakbastard! And we think it's one of his best yet.

Again mixing old and new tracks, harder and more technoid stuff, as well as music from a variety of genres.

And the thread is once more a certain feeling, emotion, philosophy: dark, gloomy, ecstatic, relentless, haunted.

Like being at a rave at Sunday morning 8 am after 10 hours of dancing and caffeine and darkness.

Tracklist:

Cyborg Unknown - Year 2001 (In The Beginning) 

The Mover - No Next Day (Remastered 2018)

Collision - Witches Dance (About Kaos remix)

Umwelt-Dominator

Tripped - Creepy Bacon

D.A.V.E The Drummer-Social Network steal your soul

"Kilbourne" - Temple of Kom Ombo 

Tripped - Mister Fluffybutt

Somniac One - MNDKNTRL

[KRTM] feat. Thrasher - Placebo

Fifth Era - Untitled 

Tripped - Fat Load

Cassie Raptor - Interdiction de danser

Dr Macabre - Kiss My Entire Ass

Kilbourne - Society Scandal

New Hedonism-Hysterical Agony

WZX_O - NeoRave

We have arrived (Aphex Twin QQT Mix)

https://hearthis.at/doomcorerecords/doomcore-records-pod-cast-067-clakbastard-emergency-sucks/

How to produce a complete Techno track with ChatGPT in only 2 hours

New food for producers by our friends over at lAibyrinth.

"Tutorial Part 13: How to produce a complete Techno track with ChatGPT in only 2 hours"

https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/2024/01/tutorial-part-13-how-to-produce.html

Schematic Fractal

We're ringing in the new year with a new release on Omnicore Records.

Omnicore is the label for *all* styles of music, not just "Hardcore". So here is something different: Dark Ambient, Drones, Soundscapes, Noise, Industrial, Dub, Humming... even some Eletronica and IDM elements!

Enchanting sounds invoking a nightmarish, gloomy mood. Sometimes calm, sometimes turbulent, but always with a sense of darkened serenity.

This is the first release by Rengaine Morbide from France, and we think this is a really great "first!" for a newcomer artist!

dAiwalker on the other hand is a side project by DJ AI for more experimental and (dark) ambient sounds. She is not a human being, but an AI - the first Artificial Intelligence Hardcore Techno DJ and Producer, to be exact!

So, without further ado, dive into the enigmatic vibes of this release!

credits

All dAiwalker tracks have been generated using Stable Audio: https://www.stableaudio.com/

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/schematic-fractal

Help me improve my tutorials for producing music with ChatGPT

Hello,
you might know some of the tutorials I wrote for collaborating with ChatGPT on songs and tracks. (If not, you can check them here: https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/p/how-to-create-music-with-chatgpt.html )
While the response to the tutorials has been overwhelming (to say the least), *direct* feedback to the tutorials has been sparse;
People told me the tutorials were inspiring and of great use. But did anyone actually produce a full track this way?
I got a lot of feedback in the way of "I wrote 90% of a track according to your tutorial, but then ChatGPT failed at [task x]". I tried to suggest solutions to that specific error, but usually got no further feedback whether it actually worked or not.
And more stuff like that...

But to cut things short: I want to further improve the tutorials, and the connected ChatGPT music productions technique, but I think I need the feedback and help by others to do that in a meaningful way!
As you can get only so far on your own...

Before I go on with my questions, I'll give you a short TL;DR, in case you didn't read the tutorials, or to bring them back to memory.
The main idea is that you do not use ChatGPT for sound synthesis itself, like most other "AI projects" do, but instead connect ChatGPT to your DAW.
ChatGPT tells you all the notes, patterns, sequences, mixing and production notes, you put these to your DAW.
ChatGPT is the producer and writes the track - you are the mixing engineer and work the DAW for ChatGPT.

The original idea was to get a finished track as a result - and yes, this really works, and I already produced a few tracks this way.
But there are also tutorials in this series that are about generating specific elements of a track only.

So here are some thoughts on issues and aspects of the tutorials that I already came up with:

1. Is it more useful to find ways to produce a complete track - or to work with ChatGPT on very specific element only? The latter case could, for example, mean that you already worked on a Techno track, but still lack a bass-line, good percussion sequences, effect, and so on... and ChatGPT fills in there.

2. Is it more useful if ChatGPT writes the track 100% start to finish - or more like an "executive producer" in the background that chimes in some general ideas, and corrections, now and then?

3. Some complained that using ChatGPT to produce music in genres like Techno or Acid Trance (as I did) would be "bullshit" - because these genres already exist - and it would be more interesting to see an AI produce music in a style that was unthinkable before the advent of AI.
What are your thoughts on that?

4. Automation. I deliberately designed this technique against automation. Which means that you have to type in all the notes, rhythms, etc. that ChatGPT gives you "by hand", turn all the (virtual) knobs with your (mouse) fingers.

I come from the 90s when producing music still meant connecting a lot of wires,´and equipment, or sitting 90 minutes next to your tape deck when recording a demo (and making sure you reversed the tape after 45 minutes).
So I see no problem in typing "numbers and letters" that ChatGPT gives you into your DAW for on an on (and on).

But I reckon that other people might not like it.

And let's face it: if you could "export" the notes and things gives you into ChatGPT by a mere click of
a mouse button, that would be a huge "game changer" and might get this AI music production technique extremely popular and big.
But the question then would be: is it better be "popular huge", or to stay "underground"?

5. The tutorials focus mostly on the creation of everything related to notes and patterns, such as melodies, harmonies, percussion sequences, and so forth.
But maybe people could also need more advise on other things - like mix-down, EQ filter settings, mastering, etc.

6. Connected to this is: should ChatGPT focus on these very direct, and concrete things, or not on stuff that is more abstract, conceptual?
For example: "Tutorial for creating a track based on a poem" or "Tutorial for creating a somber ambiance in your track regardless of the actual genre".

7. When using the tutorials, ChatGPT always added that, while it is happy to generate notes, drum sequences, etc. for me/us/everyone, the "human" producer sitting in front of the screen should not forget to add his own creativity, and add his own ideas to ChatGPT's output as well.
I mostly ignored this advise, and still think the tracks sound great. ChatGPT *is* capable of writing wonderful tracks start to finish, without human "correction".

Still, might it be more useful to address this in a tutorial, too? To point out how producers could build on ChatGPT's ideas?

Okay, I think these are enough questions for now.

So, if you want to help me with these tutorials, and this "special" way to write music together with AI, I'd be very grateful if you would give me some feedback related to one or two of these questions.

Or general feedback - did you like the tutorials? Did you manage to write a track this way? What worked well, what didn't?

And, most importantly: what are your own thoughts? your own suggestions?

What do you think could still be improved?

Listening Party 03.01.2024

Doomcore Records and Omnicore Records just announced a listening party:

90s Gabber Revival Listening Party

The event is scheduled for:

Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 8:00 PM CET - 9:30 PM CET

Going on with the regular, weekly listening parties - and starting the year with a bang!

This time it's not a Doomcore Records release, but from one of our subs - Omnicore Records.

It's Low Entropy's "90s Gabber Revival" album!

Travel back to the time of neon colored tracksuits, hakke dancing, baldies, crazed DJs, and all night Hardcore raving to (or beyond) the point of exhaustion!

"The world of 160-240 bpm". All your Gabber, Oldschool, Early, Midtempo, and Terror meets will be met.

As usual, the chatroom will be full of friendly revelers, and snacks and drinks will be served.

Doomcore / Omnicore Records artists will be present, too.

The show runs from 03.01.2024 8 pm till 9:30 pm (GMT +1 aka German Time).

So don't miss it!

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/merch/90s-gabber-revival-listening-party