Sleeping in the Gateway (Songs for Mellotron)

by Cal Wilson

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1.	"If We're All Sleeping, There's No One To Wake The King." 04:02	buy track
2.	Cal's Theme 02:51	buy track
3.	"You're a wonder, aren't you, and you love me, do you?" 01:15	buy track
4.	A Morning Greeting For The Guard At The Gate 03:36	buy track
5.	Dancing On His Feathers 03:32	buy track
6.	"If you go, I'll go with you." 02:23	buy track
7.	Playing With The Birds 04:24	buy track
8.	Tall Park Carousel Theme 03:55	buy track
9.	"Don't you cry for me!" 02:09	buy track
10.	In The Gateway 02:50	buy track

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First, let me say, I love these songs. Second, "Sleeping in the Gateway" is part of an ongoing project of research in text&audio dialog with my computer via a machine learning language model called GPT-2 (for corpus modeling and text generation) and a Python library called Magenta Tensorflow (for midi generation). Each of these songs was partially generated by an "AI", then re-composed, arranged, and produced by me. This is the beginning of a longer conversation about and showcase of what a basic understanding of some simple machine learning tools can bring to human creative output (or what humans can bring to the current generation of simple AI output). I want to stress more than anything though, that I love these songs and that, while I was skeptical at first, I can now confidently report that this human/AI partnership experiment resulted in emotionally fulfilling and creatively satisfying art that I am closely connected to and that I feel expresses my point of view. These songs are not my creations alone, but I love them and they've helped me emotionally through these past few weeks

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released June 30, 2020

On 10/29/2022, I updated the album art. Art by Cal, in MidJourney.

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Cal Wilson Vancouver, Washington

I'm a bedroom songwriter, composer, producer looking to explore the boundaries of creation from under my blankets.

"Cult of Love" was human created.

"Sleeping in the Gateway" is part of an ongoing project of research and dialog with my computer via GPT-2 for text and Google Magenta for midi. Each of these songs was partially generated by an AI, then I re-composed, arranged, and produced them. ... more

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