What's behind the door? LLMs
All poetry in this work is taken, unmodified, from Gertrude Stein's 1914 edition of Tender Buttons.
Images and sounds in this work were artificially generated or processed using off-the-shelf artificial intelligence. Sometimes the works were seeded with archival images. Sometimes they were prompted only by Gertrude Stein's words.
Sound:
Gertrude Stein's voice was cloned in 11ElevenLabs (https://elevenlabs.io/) using 40 second fragments of recordings that were cleaned up using Adobe Podcast (beta) from Penn Sound (https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Stein.php). See my discussion of voice cloning, ethics, and fair dealing.
Music and sound effects were generated using the following diffusion models:
Images and sounds in this work were artificially generated or processed using off-the-shelf artificial intelligence. Sometimes the works were seeded with archival images. Sometimes they were prompted only by Gertrude Stein's words.
Sound:
Gertrude Stein's voice was cloned in 11ElevenLabs (https://elevenlabs.io/) using 40 second fragments of recordings that were cleaned up using Adobe Podcast (beta) from Penn Sound (https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Stein.php). See my discussion of voice cloning, ethics, and fair dealing.
Music and sound effects were generated using the following diffusion models:
- haoheliu diffusion (https://replicate.com/haoheliu/audio-ldm)
- riffusion/riffusion (https://replicate.com/riffusion)
- musicgen-choral (fofr/musicgen-choral)
Images:
Images were generated using the following models:
- Midjourney (https://www.midjourney.com/)
- Adobe Firefly (https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly.html)
- Dall-e in ChatGPT-4 (https://chat.openai.com/)
All images seeded with archival materials indicate their source and are used under fair dealing for scholarship.
Video:
Video was generated using the following models:
Runway Gen 2 (https://runwayml.com/)
Deforum - Stable diffusion (https://replicate.com/deforum)
lucataco/seine (https://replicate.com/lucataco)
anotherjesse/zeroscope-v2-xl (anotherjesse/zeroscope-v2-xl)
Other AI tools:
Maxon (https://www.maxon.net/en/)
Adobe motion graphics templates (https://stock.adobe.com/)
Topaz Video AI 4 (https://www.topazlabs.com/topaz-video-ai)
Topaz Photo AI 2 (https://www.topazlabs.com/topaz-photo-ai)
