Category: Episodes
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Episode 20: Flipping the Podcast
On today’s episode we have a special guest, Caleb Manifold, a student at Trinity University who used AI tools to create a music video for a special topics class on AI. We talk to Caleb about his prompts, the audio and visual elements of his video, and what he thinks about the AI industry in…
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Episode 19: Two for the Price of One
On today’s episode, we discuss how we’ve used AI in the classroom since our last podcast, then we play around with the different voices of Pi. Next we use Soundraw to create some AI generated tracks. And finally we have a conversation with Google’s Gemini about a 1980 album Jacob recently discovered by Jun Fukamachi…
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Season 2: The Trailer
Just a little this and that on what we’re thinking about for Season 2! Audio Block Double-click here to upload or link to a .mp3. Learn more
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Episode 18: The Belated End-of-2023 Wrap Up
On today’s episode, we discuss AI news in general and Google’s many different flavors of Gemini. Then we discuss AI music on YouTube, how there_I_ruined_it creates music mashups with AI. And finally, we mess around with Google Music LM and what they think Xmas music is. Let’s get into it. Audio Block Double-click here to…
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Episode 17: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Lyrics
On today’s episode, we do a recap on this semester with using AI in our assignments from pitching out start up companies, public speaking, and writing projects. We also discuss AI and images using DALL-E, Vectorizer.AI, and Ideogram to create print posters and advertisements, and the pluses and minuses of these apps. And finally, we…
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Episode 16: Beatles. Bandcamp. Bad Bunny.
On today’s episode, we review the AI-enhanced Beatles song, “Now and Then,” and discuss Bad Bunny’s reaction to his AI music. Then we discuss YouTube’s generative AI program, Dream Track, and discuss the relationship between video and music with TikTok and finally we go deep on Bandcamp and how they could be using AI in…
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Episode 15: Juniper, Stop This Crazy Thing!
On today’s episode, we talk to ChatGPT 4.0 using Whisper, their speech-to-text mode, and their text-to-speech mode to have Chat respond with spoken words, via the voice model “Juniper” on topics like Kanye West and white supremacy. Then we discuss the new Beatles song, “Now and Then,” and how AI was used to create this…
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Episode 14: Making Music Show and Tell
On today’s episode, we make a lot more music using AI. First, we talk about our use of Discord in general and how it can be used to organize music making. Then Jacob uses BandLab’s song starter AI to make some AI generated beats. Then Frank uses Chirp software to create whole dream pop songs,…
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Episode 13: Mega-Topic Review Episode
On today’s episode, we hit a ton of topics on AI! We first talk through some student examples of writing with AI and discuss racial bias in training. Then we discuss AI movies – like HER, Ex Machina, and Megan – we talk about with our students, and finally AI music creation and the philosophy…
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Episode 12: Dos and Do Nots of AI and Music
On today’s episode, we walk through a Nobody & The Computer’s YouTube video on AI sampling and how the music industry will change forever. We also discuss a little research I did this summer on AI and white fragility and how Jann Wenner’s book, The Masters, is racist and sexist. Let’s get into it. Audio…