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Sonic Canvas: Music x Midjourney 001 🎧👨‍💻🎨

Audio-inspired AI art featuring music by La Fine Equipe (Clozee Remix), Pola & Bryson x Emily Makis, DJ Fresh (Marten Hørger Remix), Conrad Taylor x Brittany Suleiman, and Jai Wolf feat. Wrabel (ilo ilo Remix)

Sonic Canvas: Music x Midjourney 001 🎧👨‍💻🎨
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Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Steel Orca Interoperability Protocol, your guide to the intersections of music, art, technology, and personal discovery.

From the heart of Western Canada's rugged beauty, we take a weekly dive into the transformative world of AI art, electronic music, and emerging technologies. This isn't just about tech – this is about how these advancements can change our understanding of ourselves and the world. Whether you're a techie, a music enthusiast, or just someone curious about the crossroads of technology and art, this is the place for you.

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👨‍💻 Protocol Update: AI Addiction

Right now, I'm paying the following for monthly subscriptions on the following things that I use for this newsletter/blog :

  1. Spotify - $13.64: Relatively self-evident why - I rely on my Discover Weekly playlist almost exclusively to find new music for this newsletter.
  2. Canva - $17.84: Logos, banners, graphics, and stock photos.
  3. ChatGPT - $29.40: Copywriting, brainstorming, researching, coding.
  4. Grammarly - $41.50: Editing. Arguably the most crucial.
  5. MidJourney - $41.99: The primary tool I use for AI art generation.
  6. Dreamstudio.io (1000 credits/month) - $14.70: The alternative tool I use for AI art generation - the use case with this one compared to MidJourney is it accepts an initial seed image that it can then transform (see the cartoon above).
  7. Twitter - $10.50: The primary method (other than Instagram) I use for promotion. Yes, this is to stay verified. Yes, I'm ashamed.
  8. Github CoPilot - $13.40: AI-powered coding assistant - helps me write code faster and with less work. The jury is out if it makes me more efficient.

This all adds to a monthly total of $182.97 (Canadian, not real money).

Over a year, that's $2195.64.

On top of that, I've already also paid the following annual subscriptions to maintain my meagre web presence:

  1. Namecheap Domain: ~$50/year
  2. Ghost Annual Subscription: ~$150/year

We're up to $2395.64 at this point. So let's round that up to $2,400/year for simplicity's sake.

Now let's add my Beatport music purchases because I'm an aspiring DJ. Assuming that I'm buying the songs I present as part of Sonic Canvas, that's about $15 per week, give or take. As you can see from this week's post, sometimes I'm spending more, but for simplicity, we'll average that to $60 a month, or $720/ year.

I'm now over $3000/year to maintain a website with one post and an "About Me" page, and a DJ persona where my 2-year-old daughter yells at me that she "doesn't like that" and would rather hear "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."

"Build in public," they say.

"Ernest Goes to DJ School", Ernest P. Worrell, imaginary films, comedy films, comedy film, in the style of 1980's American comedy films, highly-detailed --ar 4:3
"Ernest Goes to DJ Academy"
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Set sail on an exhilarating voyage where music and art fuse effortlessly.

Sonic Canvas introduces a unique experience where curated tracks from Spotify ignite a panorama of AI-powered visuals crafted with the artistic flair of Midjourney.

Scroll down and dive in.

▶️ Listen on: Spotify | Youtube

La Fine Equipe - Don't Panik (Clozee Remix)
stomping elephants in Brooklyn 1984, parody of the Peristence of Memory, in the style of Surrealism, Salvador Dali, highrise apartment buildings, alarms, dark hallways, housing projects, whispering voices, front porches, brownstone buildings, New York City, in the style of the film Taxi --ar 4:3 --s 750 --q 2
⌨️ stomping elephants in Brooklyn 1984, parody of the Peristence of Memory, in the style of Surrealism, Salvador Dali, highrise apartment buildings, alarms, dark hallways, housing projects, whispering voices, front porches, brownstone buildings, New York City, in the style of the film Taxi --ar 4:3 --s 750 --q 2
Pola & Bryson - Phoneline (Feat. Emily Makis)
a striking black woman with dreadlocks is driving a 1964 Mustang GT down a dark rainy road in the Pacific Northwest, in the style of neo-expressionism, purples, grays, pinks, neon colors, moody, cloudy, lightning, thunder, fast cars, shiny metal, sharp edges --ar 4:3
⌨️ a striking black woman with dreadlocks is driving a 1964 Mustang GT down a dark rainy road in the Pacific Northwest, in the style of neo-expressionism, purples, grays, pinks, neon colors, moody, cloudy, lightning, thunder, fast cars, shiny metal, sharp edges --ar 4:3
DJ Fresh - Gold Dush (Marten Horger Remix)
close up shot of the immersive euphoria of an underground rave, people of all ages with beautiful bodies sway in rhythm, sweat sparkles under strobing lights, harness the bokeh effect to encapsulate the kinetic energy, accentuate golden tones and radiant lights that echo the unbridled joy, sweatiness --ar 4:3 --s 750
⌨️ close up shot of the immersive euphoria of an underground rave, people of all ages with beautiful bodies sway in rhythm, sweat sparkles under strobing lights, harness the bokeh effect to encapsulate the kinetic energy, accentuate golden tones and radiant lights that echo the unbridled joy, sweatiness --ar 4:3 --s 750
Conrad Taylor & Brittany Suleiman - i will live (i will die)
morphism, two sisters have a giant toad as a pet, they ride on its back, they live in the jungle, a complex friendship, the toad is willing to sacrifice itself for the young girl because he has known her since she was young, they are orphans --ar 4:3
⌨️ morphism, two sisters have a giant toad as a pet, they ride on its back, they live in the jungle, a complex friendship, the toad is willing to sacrifice itself for the young girl because he has known her since she was young, they are orphans --ar 4:3

Song of the Week 🙌

Jai Wolf feat. Wrabel - Moon Rider (ilo ilo Remix)
Wide angle 2/3 shot of a man is desperately searching for his family, I would go anywhere you are, love, longing, loneliness, red and white colors, spaceships, space, desolation, 50% gothic and 50% glitch art, filter in expressionism, shadows, dark, moody, forgotten love, highly detailed --ar 4:3
I would go anywhere you are.
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Other AI Images Generated This Week

Other Music Bought This Week

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orca, cyborg, cybernetic cetacean, dreary night, grays, dark colors and salmon color bursts, in the style of Tron, cyberpunk, HR Geiger, ultra detailed --ar 4:3 --s 750 --q 2

That's it for this week from all of us here at Steel Orca. 🚀🐬Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, or leave a comment below.Until next time... 👋

gardens by the bay, singapore, in the style of afrofuturism, nature-based patterns, dark white and magenta, dark amber and azure, junglecore, ethereal trees, hyper-detailed --ar 31:16
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