I ended up with something like 60 or 70 good titles banked, and a set of a dozen or fifteen that seemed good for this project. (Eventually I will publish them all, possibly as part of talking about the actual songs themselves.) As I was writing, I either selected an image to write to at the outset, or looked for an image to match what I came up with in the first few hours of work.

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In other words, it felt like a very natural progression of what I was already doing in so many ways. I spent hours dumping potential song titles into the Night Cafe and occasionally tweaking the results. and reoutputting an image. To be clear, on ALL of these, I didn't use any prompt or additional text or instruction beyond the song title. I didn't even really tweak the other settings! Just typed in a tile and hit enter.

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For context, I have long used various #oracles, #GenerativeTools and other, similar resources as a source of inspiration and structure. I have a #DiceGame I created to determine all the basics of a sing: key, tempo, etc. I use Eno's #ObliqueStrategies constantly. And of course in #modular I use stuff like #TuringMachines and the #rungler all the time. This let me use a similar approach with titles/themes.

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As a piece of actual #art this is ...meh. The composition is pretty good, but the details are janky as hell -- they breakdown into literal noise when examined closely. BUT! As an inspiration? HOLY SHIT this had my mind RACING. I could almost hear the song just looking at this image. So from there on out, every song title I came up withwent into the AI and used to determine if it was worth pursuing. In essence, the AI was my muse.

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