This experiment has involved multiple tools and quite a few days to come together. I’m not sure if it hit all the marks I was hoping for, but as a first go, perhaps it’s exactly what one can hope for. If it was any easier, then it would really devalue the creativity and experience that humans bring to musical creations.
It started when I asked Gemini to:
Make a short audio track that sounds like someone leaving someone a message on an answering machine.
It created a short track with some new lyrics, alright. But it didn’t sound like an answering machine message.
It was also missing a chorus, so I asked Gemini to:
Continue this with another audio track – the chorus – with the following lyrics “This is a static goodbye, / it’s an end without a why. / This is a static goodbye, / left without looking me in the eye.”
Well, that didn’t work. Didn’t use my lyrics and was a different song entirely.
But I don’t think Gemini is out to create music. So, I looked elsewhere. I switched over to Mureka and tried my hand there.
I entered the lyrics – those from Gemini and the chorus I wrote. I then I gave it the prompt of “Singer-Songwriter” and it generated two options.
The first sounded a little too happy and playful for a goodbye song:
But the second one I thought worked as I had hoped:
And this is where my experiment was stuck for a while as I couldn’t seem to get Mureka to take the answering machine message seriously either.
Fast forward to my starting to experiment with ElevenLabs. Using their tools, I created the audio of the message. I also created some sound effects I would need. And then I jumped over to Logic Pro and GarageBand.
I really have never used either, and I know there is a lot more I could do to make this “final” track work better, but I pieced everything together to get the full track with message that I originally had in mind:
I would definitely work on that more to get it right…it’s more the extended track, not the main radio release.
But alas, I’ve finally shared the adventure of my first musical creation with AI.
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