Participants 2024
Forest Little Music
AI Song Contest 2024 / participantsTEAM / Forest Little Music
SONG / the laziness complex
About the TEAM
Forest Little makes dreamy, dark and somewhat cinematic music. Sometimes with a deep house or techno beat beneath the sweeping synth pads, but always with a dreamy glow.
Developer and entrepreneur by day and musician at night. Born, raised and living in the Netherlands.
Not fixated on any genre so whatever your taste; you will find something you like and something you hate in his songs but one day Forest will discover the secret musical formula that will make his music appreciated around the globe.
About the SONG
Lazy artwork, lazy sound, lazy production and a lazy, relaxing mood.
About the HUMAN-AI PROCESS
Trying to figure out chords to make my music sound more jazzy, I tried out Apple's Logic Pro AI session players.
I searched for the right, laid back harmonies using a piano plugin and playing around. After each section was done, I fed the chords to an AI piano player and tweaked until the AI playing style fit the mood I was looking for. A few transitions were further edited to taste, but the main piano playing is just the AI. After that, I added an AI bass player and an AI drummer to match the song. Tweaked the settings to match the style, the rhythm and timing.
Originally I wanted to add vocals, but while searching for something of a melody, I really liked the trumpet sound I used, so I recorded a few takes playing the trumpet sound on my keyboard; removed a few notes that were unnecessary and that was it.
After the song was done, I used DeepAi.org to generate a few short snippets of video based on prompts and some on royalty free photo's I found online. I reduced the playback speed and made the fragments that were in colour black and white. Although I like the weirdness of those AI video bits, some were too weird so I had to hide the worst AI mistakes, like feet sinking into the ground or a woman's face that morphed into a monster, by overlaying other video fragments. The result is a spooky and strange, but jazzy scene. Im still unsure whether I think the video is good enough or too distracting from the music.