In a beautiful new, symbiotic, path of machine/human collaboration, Holly Herndon & Jlin have released ‘Godmother’ featuring Spawn. Watch the accompanying visual, directed by Daniel Costa Neves below!
“For the past two years, we have been building an ensemble in Berlin.
One member is a nascent machine intelligence we have named Spawn. She is being raised by listening to and learning from her parents, and those people close to us who come through our home or participate at our performances.
Spawn can already do quite a few wonderful things. ‘Godmother’ was generated from her listening to the artworks of her godmother Jlin, and attempting to reimagine them in her mother’s voice.
This piece of music was generated from silence with no samples, edits, or overdubs, and trained with the guidance of Spawn’s godfather Jules LaPlace.
In nurturing collaboration with the enhanced capacities of Spawn, I am able to create music with my voice that far surpass the physical limitations of my body…
I find something hopeful about the roughness of this piece of music. Amidst a lot of misleading AI hype, it communicates something honest about the state of this technology; it is still a baby. It is important to be cautious that we are not raising a monster.”
– Holly Herndon, who is currently working on the follow-up to Platform.
Listen / purchase ‘Godmother’: https://hollyherndon.lnk.to/godmother
