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Art project translates music from Teenage Engineering’s OP-Z synth into AI-generated imagery
AI-generated art is a new frontier rife with potential. But for every thorny question about copyright and the potential for widespread manipulation, generated art can also inspire wonder and awe. For example, look no further than this AI-powered experiment that creates kaleidoscopic visual landscapes for composed music.
A collaboration between quirky synth and hardware brand Teenage Engineering and design studios Modem and Bureau Cool, the project draws inspiration from the neurological condition synesthesia. This rare phenomenon leads the brain to perceive sensory input for several senses instead of one. For example, a listener with synesthesia may see music instead of only hearing it, observing color, movement and shape in response to musical patterns. Conversely, a synesthetic person may taste shapes, feel words from a novel or hear an abstract painting.
The audiovisual experiment uses the Teenage Engineering OP-Z sequencer as the music source that is then translated into AI art. In real-time, Modem and Bureau Cool’s “digital extension” translates musical properties into text prompts describing colors, shapes and movements. Those prompts then feed into Stable Diffusion (an open-source tool similar to DALL-E 2 and Midjourney) to produce dreamy and synesthetic animations.
Modem co-founder Bas van de Poel sees the experiment as fuel for artists’ imaginations. “With the project, we see the potential for musicians to explore new forms of creativity, facilitating a joint performance between human and machine,” van de Poel told Engadget today.
If you’re a musician who owns Teenage Engineering’s OP-Z, you can’t yet use the extension yourself — but that may eventually change. Van de Poel tells Engadget that the companies are “exploring the potential of launching a public version.”
This AI-based project isn’t the first to bring synesthetic properties to the masses. Last year, Google Arts & Culture created an exhibition that flipped the concept around, bringing machine-learning-produced sound to Vassily Kandinsky’s paintings.
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Heidi Klum, 49, poses in sexy lingerie with her teenage daughter Leni, 18
HEIDI Klum teams up with her teenage daughter Leni again — and shows they really are the model family.
The German-American beauty, 49, posed in lingerie for a new photoshoot with her 18-year-old girl, the eldest of her four children.
Heidi Klum, 48, teams up with her teenage daughter Leni, 18[/caption]
Heidi and Leni are appearing for lingerie label Intimissimi[/caption]
The pair are ‘icons of self-confidence, joy of life and love between a mother and daughter’ for the brand[/caption]
The pair are appearing for lingerie label Intimissimi.
They are starring in its new autumn/winter 2022 campaign “as icons of self-confidence, joy of life and love between a mother and daughter”.
Heidi and Leni did a joint photoshoot for the cover of Vogue in December 2020.
Leni’s father is Italian businessman Flavio Briatore, 72.
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He and Heidi split before she was born.
Heidi and Brit musician Seal, 59, have three children together.
Leni’s father is Italian businessman Flavio Briatore[/caption]
Heidi and Brit musician Seal have three children together[/caption]
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Teenage Engineering and Love Hulten designed a drum machine ‘with heart disease’
Teenage Engineering’s latest drum machine probably isn’t one that you’re going to use to add percussion to your next piece. The company teamed up with designer Love Hulten to create CHD-4 in the aim of raising awareness about congenital heart disease.
The drum machine has four modules that produce rhythms based on the echocardiogram (ECG) scans of four children with heart defects. The scan results revealed the shape, pace and BPM of their heartbeats, Teenage Engineering said. It added the data to a four-track circular sequencer. The patterns can be played together or individually in order to create sounds that exemplify “each child’s irregular heartbeat.” A video gives a sense of the kinds of haunting soundscapes the machine can create:
“Drum machines are defined by order – beats, pace, and rhythm,” Hulten said. “This machine disrupts that system, the same way life is disrupted when a child is born with congenital heart disease.” The machine also has an OLED screen that depicts the audio and beat in a similar fashion to a proper ECG machine.
It’s an art project, no doubt, but it’s a fascinating one that’s raising awareness of an important issue. If you’re lucky, and have deep enough pockets, you might be able to add CHD–4 to your collection. It will be auctioned on Valentine’s Day (February 14th), with all proceeds going to the Swedish Heartchild Foundation.
Top Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov sends teenage sons to fight in Ukraine as bizarre images show them firing weapons
A STAUNCH ally of Vladimir Putin has said he is sending his three teenage sons to fight in Ukraine.
Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Chechen region, is a vocal supporter of the Russian tyrant’s war, and bizarre video shows the three boys practising firing weapons.
Ramzan Kadyrov is a staunch ally of Vladimir Putin[/caption]
Kadyrov – notorious for inflicting medieval torture on opponents -said Monday he was sending Adam, 14, Eli, 15, and 16-year-old Akhmat to the Ukraine front.
The video showed the boys in camouflage clothing and dark glasses, on tanks, guns strapped to their waists, shooting rocket launchers and machine guns.
At times the teenagers smile while shooting or made a thumbs-up gesture.
“It’s time to prove themselves in a real fight, I can only welcome this desire,” Kadyrov wrote on Telegram.
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“Soon they will go to the front line and will be on the most difficult sections of the contact line.”
He said the three have trained for combat “almost from their youngest years” and insisted he was “not joking.”
Using children under the age of 15 to fight is considered a war crime by the International Criminal Court though Russia does not recognise its jurisdiction.
Prada-wearing Kadyrov has been described as “the son Putin never had,” such is his slavish devotion to the Russian president.
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Following Russia’s recent humiliating defeats he said Moscow should now consider using a low-yield nuclear weapon in Ukraine.
In a chilling message, he wrote: “In my personal opinion, more drastic measures should be taken, right up to the declaration of martial law in the border areas and the use of low-yield nuclear weapons.”
He commands his own paramilitary force, the Kadyrovtsy, which he sent into Ukraine during the initial invasion at the very start of the war.
But while they came with a fearsome reputation they have faced slaughter on the battlefield.
They have been mocked by Ukrainians for appearing to focus more on uploading glossy videos to social media than on taking part in front-line battles.
Just three days after the start of the war, top Chechen general Magomed Tushaev was killed in fighting outside Kyiv, as the Russian advance stalled.
Days later, footage was shared on Telegram of a destroyed Russian column in the western Kyiv suburb of Bucha, showing vehicles that reportedly belonged to Kadyrov’s men.
During the brutal siege of Mariupol, Kadyrov himself bizarrely took a rifle-toting Adam son with him as he took his troops into the beleaguered city.
The leader said he wanted his boy “to learn first-hand about the successes and needs of our comrades-in-arms”.
Adam had earlier sparked controversy over his luxury watch collection, including a Richard Mille original reported to cost more than £263,000.
In the first days of the invasion, the former separatist rebel gave a speech urging Volodymyr Zelensky to ask Putin for forgiveness.
During his address, he was pictured wearing military fatigues and a pair of £1200 Prada Monolith boots.
The ruthless with a penchant for torture, murder, kidnapping and anti-gay purges – has an estimated fortune of up to £150million.
He is believed to own an villa on the exclusive man-made palm tree shaped island Palm Jumeriah in Dubai.
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The warlord also has an expensive car collection, including a Rolls Royce and Lamborghini – along with a £70million private plane, an Airbus A319.
He even has a private zoo – including tigers – near one of his mansions.
One of the boys firing a rocket launcher[/caption]
Adam high-fiving his brother on the range[/caption]