Layers & Nodes by Various Artists
Produced by Faletolu Audio and funded by Creative Victoria.
'Layers & Nodes: A compilation of new AI production' is a VA compilation and project that provided access to AI tools and generated audio to encourage new contemporary works from some of the most forward thinking artists across modern day so called Australia.
The compilation's custom made and curated content/models took around 500 hours of Nvidia A100 GPU processing time and utilised open source and community made notebooks based off of AudioLDM 2, OpenAI’s Jukebox, Talknet, Archinet’s audio Diffusion Pytorch, Harmonai’s Dance Diffusion and RAVE.
It's the hope of this compilation to help demystify and encourage of the use of AI technology creatively in audio production by a wider community than the traditionally tech centric demographics of today. Allowing culture to help shape this early developing technology before it develops far enough to universally change the way we work.
All proceeds made on this album are donated to Pay The Rent.
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Tracklist
Credits
All tracks recorded, written and mixed by respective artists except track 2 mixed by Geryon, tracks 3, 4 and 11 mixed by Guy Louis Faletolu.
AI generation and consultation by Faletolu Audio.
Artwork by Nasim Sharifani.
Special thanks to Lucy Andrews and Puff Studio, Pikachu, SMarioMan, Broccaloo and Various Assess. Further thanks to ChatGPT for naming the compilation.
Whilst we did our best to ensure all data used for this project was collected and used as ethically as possible, we recognise the technology used to make this compilation stands on the shoulders of giants bigger than we could ever comprehend. We want to thank the massive community around AI generation. Both for those who pioneer new technology and for those who educate us.
This project was made on Wurundjeri land, we pay respects to elders past and present and recognise the privilege we have to live and create here. Sovereignty was never ceded.
