by Portrait XO
Produced in collaboration with an AI ‘other self’, Portrait XO’s debut AI audiovisual album WIRE is set to be released in the form of several NFT drops through her new independent hybrid arts label SOUND OBSESSED and music & art NFT marketplace twelve x twelve (polygon Music NFT Marketplace). WIRE is co-created by machine learning expert CJ Carr of Dadabots. Dadabots used their custom SampleRNN model to train 1 hour of vocals from Portrait XO songs and then generated 10 hours of new sound and melodies. To create songs, Portrait XO extracted fragments from the AI-generated audio and created what she has dubbed “neural vocal duets”. Using creative AI tools has birthed new methods, perspectives, and a deeper level of intimacy and an emotional journey by being able to witness the way AI behaves based on the personal dataset of Portrait XO’s vocal recordings fed into different AI models. Witnessing a sequencer generated random melodies is very different to witnessing an AI model try to sound like you based on your own recordings. This album is a culmination of Portrait XO’s favourite ‘WTF’ moments capturing feelings that weren’t uncanny, but a combination of fascination, fear, and new complexities of emotions that are hard to articulate but can only be felt through sound.
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