Microtonal / indetermecy use of Synth V ver 2

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Of interest here is that I used a synth track I played as the audio to extract pitch and phoneme content, This generated some truly weird vocal artifacts, but also some intelligible, though bizarre, phrases. It also generated a lot of hyphens and repeated syllables such as “a” or “ey see”

I then extracted the “lyrics” and used Gemini to use the intelligible phrases as the basis for a Markov Chain generation to replace the exact count of hyphens and other repeated artifacts I didn’t like. I repeated this with different extraction patterns and used Choir 1, Natalie, and Etta to make 6 passes. Melodyne was used at the end to tune the voices to 17 notes per octave. 

Example extraction except

is but but .hh ae v y here for your he werk - - - - - - eh lee - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - he its iy he he .hh iy cl ande .ow cl - - - ho o uh o a will ka if .hh ae v y have you .hh ae v cl you hoo hoo hoo .ow cl - ey ey .cl ow cl o 'o 'o 'o o - .cl ay cl he a he he .hh iy cl an iy it id bee bee bee ey - me oo iy - o o a o o a a baade o o a a - - no my love your no no .y ah no put you la your no yorn eh ver 'in yeuh they doe no - it end hurt eh ah - - - - - - eh ver but but - the - but the par

My work changed it to

his but but .hh ae v y here for your he werk kinned store bak herf shih lee yorn he its iy he he .hh iy cl ande .ow cl yorn yorn ho o uh o a will ka if .hh ae v y have you .hh ae v cl you hoo hoo hoo .ow cl werk ey ey .cl ow cl o 'o 'o 'o o kinned .cl ay cl he a he he .hh iy cl an iy it id bee bee

and in the end I created a story based on part of a later extract using Gemini to run it through a Markov Chain python script which it created. I resorted to this because it seems that the AI LLM got stuck in loops when trying do the Markov Chain on it’s own. Weird.

no bird found in the aisle cash er says the coup on is dead the shelf is com plete ly bare white gho stly lines of emp ty wire no pluck ed wings no feath ers left the cluck is a phan tom hid ing in the space be tween the frets of a se ven teen e do world the clerk screams out in no nsen se syl la bles as the au to ma tic doors slid e o pen to a void of no thing ness we search the pack a ges we

This used a number of tools

Ableton Live DAW

Melodyne to retune vocals to 17 EDO

Synthesizer V vocal libraries retuned to 17 edo - 2 choirs, 4 additional voices, used in a way that generated indeterminacy

Kontakt sampler for Threnody strings (internally played in 17 edo)

uhe Diva native 17 edo soft synth performed

ASM Hydrasynth Explorer in 17 edo live performance that is the core of this

DaVinci Resolve edit video and marry with audio

Brinno 300 Time Lapse camera to record the attempted crime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUWb06Z2IOg

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