Started my day with some AI experiments. Decided to see what Gemini could do with a random prompt to write poetry:
Write a short poem about a salamander named Sylvester who goes to the moon.
It created this little beauty:
Sylvester was a spotted soul,
With skin of damp and mossy coal.
He grew quite bored of forest floors,
And longed for lunar, cratered shores.
He built a ship of silver tin,
With oxygen to keep him in.
A flick of tail, a tiny spark—
He soared above the velvet dark.
He landed in the Sea of Cold,
A tiny traveler, brave and bold.
No pond was there, no leafy vine,
Just dust that made his goggles shine.
He hopped across the low-G gray,
A quarter-million miles away.
Though bugs were scarce in outer space,
He liked the quiet of the place.
He looked at Earth, a marble blue,
The only home he ever knew,
Then tucked his toes and closed his eyes,
The first amphibian in the skies.
I then wanted to see how it would sound like to be turned into a song:
Can you turn the poem into a song in the style of Depeche Mode?
It of course refused to make it sound like Dave Gahan or Martin Gore were actually singing, but I just wanted the style.
With the tracks limited in length, I decided to play around and see what I could do with the rest of the poem, in a similar style:
Record a track in similar style but with a female voice for “He built a ship of silver tin, With oxygen to keep him in.”
Continue song with the following portion of the poem: “He landed in the Sea of Cold, A tiny traveler, brave and bold. No pond was there, no leafy vine, Just dust that made his goggles shine.”
There were a lot of places where it didn’t quite want to do what I was asking to it, but since I was in experimental mode, it was giving me enough of what I wanted to make the experiments rewarding.
At one point, it lost the style of music I was aiming for and made this variation:
I know there are no doubt better tools than Gemini to be working on music, but it was insightful to craft poetry and music from a simple kernel of an idea.
More to come!
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