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AC/DC Song Made with a Markov Chain

49 points by impostervt 6y ago

notatechie 6y ago
cooool!!!
foolinaround 6y ago
would love to see a blog post about it!
pesfandiar 6y ago
It seems like the author only used a Markov chain to produce the lyrics, but the rest is sung by an AC/DC impersonator. It's still quite impressive, but I'd love to see the music itself generated by GANs as well.
- wvenable 6y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJgNpm8cTE8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJgNpm8cTE8
  - developer2 6y ago
    Hot damn, technology is catching up with humans' manual creations. Your video is reminiscent of Adriano Celentano's song "Prisencolinensinainciusol"[1]–whereby he created a song to represent what English sounds like to non-native speakers[2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol
default-kramer 6y ago
> Also let me say that trying to sing like Brian Johnson is extremely hard. I think he did a very good job! You can easily tell the difference side-by-side, but still, it's close enough that I thought it was deepfaked at first.
cvaidya1986 6y ago
Love it!! One day we can just “order” a “new” Hitchcock movie or Crichton novel?!
- lowdest 6y ago
  More than that. If you don't like the first page you can just start a fresh one.
  - cvaidya1986 6y ago
    Nice!!
jsnell 6y ago
Honestly, this doesn't read like Markov chain output. It feels more like a human writing what they think a Markov chain would do. Or maybe autogenerating a bit of it and then having the human riff on whatever nonsense the generator produced to fill in most of the song.
- jmknoll 6y ago
  The creator of something similar (but with Nickelback) posted on Reddit last week and went into a bit more detail, but essentially, he created a bunch of lyrics with a markov chain, then arranged them into the structure of a song. https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/gc68t3/nickelbot_nobody_died_every_single_day_pop_rock_i/fp9gck9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/gc68t3/nickelbot_nob...
  - jsnell 6y ago
    I don't buy that explanation, there's clearly a ton more human involvement here than just rearranging verses. The output is far too grammatical and maintains too much thematic consistency across filler word distance to be output by a low-order Markov chain, but is too unique compared to the (very small) corpus to be output by a high-order one.
- creaghpatr 6y ago
  The music is more or less the structure to For Those About to Rock by AC/DC (1). Pretty amusing though, and AC/DC would be a good test drive for an AI generator because the song structure and lyrics don't have a ton of breadth. (1) Compare to: https://youtu.be/fKhTk0IynHM?t=78 https://youtu.be/fKhTk0IynHM?t=78
- remmargorp64 6y ago
  Yeah, the whole notion of this being something generated with a markov chain feels too much like hype. The guy admitted on reddit that he manually cherry-picked and assembled the lyrics, and then he sang and recorded the song himself. For all intents and purposes, he might as well have just fed a bunch of AC/DC lyrics through a word randomizer and then assembled the new lyrics by hand. No AI or markov chains required. On the other hand, here is ACTUAL real music generated and played entirely by AI: https://openai.com/blog/musenet/ https://openai.com/blog/musenet/
dls2016 6y ago
1000x times more listenable than an actual AC/DC song.
alexdowad 6y ago
If the lyrics were all generated by a Markov chain from beginning to end, there's no way that it would have a repeating chorus. Are all the 3-word tuples actually used in other AC/DC songs? (Output this grammatical could not be generated by a Markov chain that only looks at 2-word tuples.) If not, that also seriously calls their claim into question. I think the maker would have done well to be more upfront: "AC/DC Song Co-authored by a Computer" or something like that.

49 points by impostervt 6y ago

notatechie 6y ago

cooool!!!

foolinaround 6y ago

would love to see a blog post about it!

pesfandiar 6y ago

It seems like the author only used a Markov chain to produce the lyrics, but the rest is sung by an AC/DC impersonator. It's still quite impressive, but I'd love to see the music itself generated by GANs as well.

wvenable 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJgNpm8cTE8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJgNpm8cTE8
- developer2 6y ago
  Hot damn, technology is catching up with humans' manual creations. Your video is reminiscent of Adriano Celentano's song "Prisencolinensinainciusol"[1]–whereby he created a song to represent what English sounds like to non-native speakers[2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol

default-kramer 6y ago

> Also let me say that trying to sing like Brian Johnson is extremely hard. I think he did a very good job! You can easily tell the difference side-by-side, but still, it's close enough that I thought it was deepfaked at first.

cvaidya1986 6y ago

Love it!! One day we can just “order” a “new” Hitchcock movie or Crichton novel?!

lowdest 6y ago
More than that. If you don't like the first page you can just start a fresh one.
- cvaidya1986 6y ago
  Nice!!

jsnell 6y ago

Honestly, this doesn't read like Markov chain output. It feels more like a human writing what they think a Markov chain would do. Or maybe autogenerating a bit of it and then having the human riff on whatever nonsense the generator produced to fill in most of the song.

jmknoll 6y ago
The creator of something similar (but with Nickelback) posted on Reddit last week and went into a bit more detail, but essentially, he created a bunch of lyrics with a markov chain, then arranged them into the structure of a song. https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/gc68t3/nickelbot_nobody_died_every_single_day_pop_rock_i/fp9gck9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/gc68t3/nickelbot_nob...
- jsnell 6y ago
  I don't buy that explanation, there's clearly a ton more human involvement here than just rearranging verses. The output is far too grammatical and maintains too much thematic consistency across filler word distance to be output by a low-order Markov chain, but is too unique compared to the (very small) corpus to be output by a high-order one.
creaghpatr 6y ago
The music is more or less the structure to For Those About to Rock by AC/DC (1). Pretty amusing though, and AC/DC would be a good test drive for an AI generator because the song structure and lyrics don't have a ton of breadth. (1) Compare to: https://youtu.be/fKhTk0IynHM?t=78 https://youtu.be/fKhTk0IynHM?t=78
remmargorp64 6y ago
Yeah, the whole notion of this being something generated with a markov chain feels too much like hype. The guy admitted on reddit that he manually cherry-picked and assembled the lyrics, and then he sang and recorded the song himself. For all intents and purposes, he might as well have just fed a bunch of AC/DC lyrics through a word randomizer and then assembled the new lyrics by hand. No AI or markov chains required. On the other hand, here is ACTUAL real music generated and played entirely by AI: https://openai.com/blog/musenet/ https://openai.com/blog/musenet/

dls2016 6y ago

1000x times more listenable than an actual AC/DC song.

alexdowad 6y ago

If the lyrics were all generated by a Markov chain from beginning to end, there's no way that it would have a repeating chorus. Are all the 3-word tuples actually used in other AC/DC songs? (Output this grammatical could not be generated by a Markov chain that only looks at 2-word tuples.) If not, that also seriously calls their claim into question. I think the maker would have done well to be more upfront: "AC/DC Song Co-authored by a Computer" or something like that.