The Bushweeds, my new favourite artificial intelligence band...

 So... lately I have been playing a bit with AI.. first with the image enhancer/generator krea.ai just for testing purposes.. so, of course I had to try and generate an image from the group photo of the band, "The Bushweeds", to see what the AI would do with them..

First again, the original for comparison..

Then the AI version, just hitting the enhance button and not doing anything more..

This is cool, but it's not quite there.. this isn't really what their faces especially look like, I think, so... let's try again by increasing the resemblance slider.. putting slightly over the halfway mark (it was originally at 36) gave more or less the same result, so.. trying again with the slider to above 80..

Ok, kinda better, but not quite. Their facial expressions are not maintained as well, but I'll stop here for now.. then, after a while, I discovered something even cooler than this..

This thing called Suno where it's possible to generate music through a prompt to an AI, by either having the AI suggest some random lyrics, or writing your own... So of course I had to try this too, by creatin g music that could be in the style of the band.. Since the band has already released an album, I was curious to figure out what it would sound like.. ;)

The backside of their album, and what I have as a starting point to work with. The first track 'Riot Rhythms' is only an instrumental intro track, so I simply gave the AI the prompt 'Celtic Punk', as well as the title, and it produced this..

This was the very first results from my first attempt. I found it very fascinating and was immediately impressed and I thought it was cool enough to be used. Though the instrumentation is perhaps a little high pitched in some places, I liked the melody enough to not want to ditch it...

Then it was time for the first actual track, or the second track of the album, "We Are Party Punk". I used a little more advanced input here, specifying the instruments and that there should be a female vocalists, as well as giving the title, but everything else, lyrics and music, is 100 % AI generated..

It took a few attempts to get something I could accept. Though it never sounded musically awful (to my ears anyway...), the lyrics of the first attempts especially were really corny... it almost gave me associations to Rebecca Blacks song 'Friday' for those of you who remember that one..

And admittedly, the lyrics are still corny also in this version, but I kept them that way, because.. well, this isn't a very serious song anyway, and I think it sort of works to kickstart the album and as a mission statement for the band.. they're really just in it to party, have fun and muck around.. so let's go! ;)

..before they take it down a few notches again on the third track, 'Wet Torch River', which is my favourite song of theirs so far. The title, which I didn't put to much thought into when I made the album cover, is nonsensical, but with some thought and help from AI generated lyrics, this one turned into a song that actually tells a story.. of course, I had quite a bit more input on the lyrics here for this one, but not to much actually.. ;) And I suppose I'm a bit of a sucker to for downtempo somber tracks like this one.. as fun and energetic as the previous track is, this is the one I have found myself repeatedly listening to the most...

..and that's it for now, but rest assured, the rest of the album is probably gonna be uploaded to youtube as well soon enough. ;)