(EXPERIMENTAL) VIDEO WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND A MODULAR SYNTHESIZER.
Eurorack modular synth music & deep dream / deep style imagery combined to make sexy. Welcome to the final video in the Deeper trilogy! Like its predecessors, this video melds real footage and deep dream imagery with original music composed by me on my Eurorack modular synth.
HUGE shouts out to Deep Dream Generator and EbSynth, for inspiring, enabling, and facilitating creativity play.
This video represents a little over six months of work condensed into three minutes and six seconds, or 4460 frames.
Compared to the previous videos, Deeper I and Deeper II, producing this piece was a massive learning process and experience in which I learned a lot about rotoscoping. A lot. Three Macs (old MacBook Pro, old Mac Mini, and the 2013 Mac Pro "dust bin") were consumed for several hundred hours of rendering but some of that material ended up on the cutting room floor.
Deeper III features footage shot by the brilliant Cotton Bro on Pexels. Visual delights were primarily enhanced using deepdreamgenerator.com & Ebsynth, comped and tweaked in After Effects, and then edited in Premiere.
The music was made with my eurorack modular synth (more info below) which was run thru a Grace MP2-NV preamp, into Burl B2 ADC converter, and comped in Logic before mastering in Ozone 9.
I'm going to become a puddle now. Thanks for watching.
PS - Go do some cool art at Deep Dream Generator. It's user friendly without a bunch of complicated controls (though creatively you can soar in terms of complexity). I've been there for a couple of years now and it has sincerely rocked my creative world.
The Music
This music supporting this video was composed last year using the modular synthesizer shown in the photo to the right (or below on mobile).
For a couple of weeks I had a bunch of random footage (mostly Apollo & Gemini missions and timelapses from the International Space Station) from NASA that ran on a loop with the goal of saturating my eyes with spacey images to plug things in and yield something with a similar vibe sonically - spacey sounds.
Mission accomplished.
Hope you enjoy the video. Send me a message on the contact page if you have questions or ideas.