AI Videos are Here: Chris Ianuzzi Drops His Second AI-created Music Video for His Single ‘Lonesome Highway Superstar’ [Video]

A YEDM favourite by now or his endlessly fascinating experimental preparations and chaotic variety each in his musical compositions and his multimedia movies, Chris Ianuzzi is now diving head-first into an space many artists are simply beginning to poke round: AI artwork and movies. Since his acclaimed Maze LP was dropped single by single ending in April of this yr, Ianizzu hinted he can be doing an analogous development with movies, and he’s formally into that venture with the discharge on November 4th with “Lonesome Highway Superstar,” the second video from the Maze mega-album.

The single “March of Madness,” launched as a particular video that was the end result of Maze, was really the primary video on which Ianuzzi and his crew utilized AI expertise, each within the animation and the morphing of the faces. “Lonesome Highway Superstar” is the primary, nevertheless, that’s nearly solely A.I.-created. Made in collaboration with the identical graphic artists who labored on “March of Madness,” İlke Köse and  Ethem Serkan Sökmen, this video utilized each Disco Diffusion and Stable Diffusion AI picture technology. Between the 2 strategies, the crew created a video that feels each surreal and hyperreal, with trippy, abstrac varieties morphing into photorealistic characters and vice versa.

The inspiration for this, in accordance with Ianuzzi, was a form of space-themed model of The Road Warrior. 

My preliminary concept for a video was a ‘Road Warrior’-type video with a beat up automotive on a desert freeway. After I considered this and noticed what Serkan andİlke did with AI in making the video “for March of Madness,” I assumed it was time to seek for one thing totally different. I assumed, let’s put the character in house and make the journey Cosmic. I shared my ideas with them and off they went.

The video appears to seize the sense of lonliness paired with marvel Ianuzzi was attempting to connote within the observe as effectively, with the extra formless visuals being stunning and awe-inspiring however finally chilly and sterile, particularly as soon as the POV shifts to the human varieties. Dressed in house fits and nonetheless created by AI as they’re, the humanness of their motions and play on the “desert highway in space” is a stark distinction to all of the viewer has seen so far. Despite these photos not being almost as spectacular because the extremely styled “space” photos, there’s extra of a connection to them than the rest within the video, and it appears far too quick a clip.

The video ends with a query, as a warped photorealistic spaceship tries to construct and rebuild istelf time and again inside this hyperreal however clearly not actual house: will we ever have the ability to totally coexist with AI, or, for that matter, another types of intelligence, whether or not terrestrial or additional? It stays to be seen at this level, however the reply might not be too far off because the technolog continues to develop. In the meantime Ianuzzi sees all of it as the identical query: after we consistently attain out for extra, whether or not or not it’s AI, house, and even simply on the lookout for companionship on a desert higway, are we simply serving to extra totally isolate ourselves? That’s a extra everlasting query, and it appears the “Lonesome Highway Superstar” doesn’t have the reply fairly but.

Visit Chris Ianuzzi’s YouTube channel to see “March of Madness” and different movies. Maze and the remainder of his discography are streamable on Spotify.