The album New Oddities, having been released on January 16, 2023, is the first album to be released in 2023 that was created in part by using AI software. The Arts Calling podcast brought on two of the human collaborators on the project for a deep dive into how the album was created using Artificial Intelligence.
CREDITS:
Cover art by Jamie Hayles – Color by Shahab Zargari
Track 1 features NASA sonification sounds from the Black Hole in the Perseus galaxy cluster
Track 2 features Mo Milan and words by Neil Gaiman speaking on mythology
Track 3 features a sample of a 1990s middle school choirs recording archive of “Kalinka” a Russian folk song written in 1860 by the composer and folklorist Ivan Larionov
Track 4 features lyrics by CRASS
Track 5 features Micah Haji-Sheikh
Track 6 lyrics are included in the album download as a Bandcamp exclusive
Track 7 contains a poem by John Henry Mackay
Track 8 features Mo Milan, as well as the first computer-based phonemic synthesis-by-rule program, John Kelly and Louis Gerstman, 1961 as well as VODER, Homer Dudley, 1939. Song also features an excerpt from a 1977 Anne Waldman’s lecture on female writers.
Track 9 features audio from FMA Overlords – Net Neutrality Sample Pack
Track 10 features a sample of a default alert sound in Windows10 and the track Left In A Deep Trance By You by One Man Symphony.
Track 11 features samples of a 1990s middle school choirs recording archives of Beethoven, Mozart and traditional tunes as well as archival American news audio
Tracks 2-9 feature samples and arrangements using AI generated sounds from Soundraw.io
