- Apr 8
- 3 min read
News! News! Rory Block’s World Wide Music Video Premier,
Friday, April 10th at 12 noon!!!
YouTube Link -> https://youtu.be/hQBWhxt-mTI
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Here comes our first attempt at an Ai music video!! Crazy, fun, bizarre, unique, unpredictable, make-believe yet surprisingly “real” at the same time... because Ai studies all of humanity and puts it into an ever growing database of subtleties. We were warned that Ai does what Ai wants, but at the same time it is often alarmingly accurate, and fascinating. Ultimately I think we were able to compromise with it so that our organic concepts still come through. We hope you like and share, cus we wanna make it viral!!
Here is a more detailed account of the project:
RORY BLOCK- WHAT KIND OF WOMAN IS THIS
On MC Records
Song written by BUDDY GUY
CREDITS, DESCRIPTION:
This is an Ai generated music video of Rory Block’s recording of What Kind Of Woman Is This, written by Buddy Guy, from Rory’s Heavy On The Blues CD, with guest artist Jimmy Vivino, on MC Records. Produced and edited by Rory Block and Rob Davis for Aurora Productions, using Ai programs including Open Art Ai.
Here is our first attempt at an Ai music video. Fun and surprising would be an understatement. These experimental efforts yielded much information- mostly about how much we don’t yet know. We started with a single photo of me- the one on my home page*. Rob asked Ai to create a full story-line to the music with this one photo. As you can see the lip synch is not always correct, but it’s close. As you know Ai creates unique and sometimes bizarre images which cannot be predicted or entirely controlled, but we decided to roll with it and left the somewhat amusing results. At one point I had three hands, my slide morphed into a pill bottle, the jewelry and outfits changed constantly, etc, but we thought it was entertaining.
The next character is that of the heart throb guy taken from a single image of Rob in one of our wedding day portraits. It’s incredible how it morphed him into his handsome self in a number of different settings- but I always recognize fully that it is him- and now I’m more impressed than ever!
The second Ai manifestation of me appears at 3 minutes and 6 seconds, and is from the image on the cover of my book. Ai created the clip of me walking through the bar, as well as the closing image of me holding the guitar. I particularly like those images.
Jimmy Vivino’s clips were also created from a single photo. We used his portrait and asked it to place him on a stage. Ai created a cool clip of him that pretty accurately depicts his natural habitat- playing soulfully, surrounded by amps and bathed in stage lighting.
Last but not least, we edited-in a live performance of me playing the solo, the same one I do on the recording. We didn’t want Ai to handle this one, and only asked it to remove the background. This is a live film of me playing the solo, taken in my studio.
Remember, we know there are strange aberrations and amusing impossibilities, but for a first try, we think it is fascinating and strangely accurate in a unique way, a worthy manifestation. We hope you enjoy it and think it’s fun! Please don’t write to tell us that my legs cross in an impossible changeover in the intro- we know!!
*The actual original photos are not present in the video but are the next clip formed from the original after the fact, as is the case with all the generated images in this video.
Images of Rory Block are Ai generated images inspired by photos taken by
Shonna Valeska (website homepage photo)
Sergio Kurhajec (cover of my autobiographynWhen A Woman Gets The Blues) Wendy Neefus (wedding photographer- images of Rob Davis).
