a lot hinges on these little hinge moments — Apologies for the lame subtitle, I’m sure I will change it some day : ) When composing in a DAW, you’re generally going to be composing with blocks of audio or MIDI, where the horizontal lengths are the start and end points and the vertical heights are defined by the…

and tempo multiples thereof — Presently, RunwayML is limited to producing ideo clips in 4-second increments at 2K resolution. This can be an interesting design constraint, especially if you are working with music that has a BPM (beats per minute) of 120. …

a tutorial — See also: VJ Loops! Medium, Aesthetics & Emergence Pixop: An Online AI Video Upscaler: HD to 4K video conversion, amongst other use cases Video Art & Databases: the Role of Clip Libraries in Creative Making 120 BPM Music for RunwayML’s 4-Second Video Clip Constraint To set the tone, here’s a short AI-generated…

It’s early in the game, but what a game! — In the practical spirit of Bresson’s Notes on Sound, I present below a bullet list of rather economically expressed thoughts about the process of making films — in my case, music videos — with AI. It’s difficult to realize a preconceived plan. As soon as you try to get the…

Coming Soon to a Udemy Near You — Digital, Virtual and AI Photography presents a comprehensive view of computer-based methods for the production and manipulation of photographic imagery. The course is divided into three sections. The first section on Digital Photography presents thorough coverage of the fundamental principles and techniques of digital photography, whether using a DSLR…

Designing the Musical Metaverse — It’s easy to overdo it with synchronizing musical rhythms to live visuals, as it becomes sensorially tedious very quickly. The best practices of live shows that I’ve been a part of is to reserve strong and prolonged music-lightshow sync for special moments of high emotional impact, such as the refrain…

Slide Deck from DPI 2023 — In this post I am simply sharing the slide deck and giving a brief walkthrough from my presentation on Aug 16th at the Digital Pedagogies Institute’s annual conference, or DPI 2023. You can click on the image above to view or download the slide deck. Since it may not be…

a software concept — Related Articles: Designing the Musical Metaverse Part 1: Imagineering the Future of Collective Musical Experiences XR 101 | Video Lecture Series Metaverse = Film + Architecture x Games to the Power of Music: an algorithm for designing musical virtual places Music-Visual Synchronization in VR Environments: a light-handed approach through phase sync drift …

on YouTube — YouTube Studio provides a nifty dataset for all kinds of items related to one’s video channel(s). One of the data categories presents a collection of the top 15 music videos popular with my channel listeners, under the Analytics left tab and Audience top tab.