18 Feb, 2021
Summary Creative Personal Assistant is a speculative prototype I made to explore Stable Diffusion, the open source text-to-image AI model that was released August 2022.
As I started exploring Stable Diffusion for this prototype just a few weeks after its release, the infrastructure required to run it was slow, unstable and had associated fees, so no online demo is available for the time being.
Example of e-mail response from my Creative Personal Assistant
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18 Feb, 2021
Summary Morphaweb is a free, open source, web-based application that allows you to drag-and-drop audio files into the browser, add markers and export in the correct format for the Make Noise Morphagene eurorack module. Fast, easy, free.
App: https://knandersen.github.io/morphaweb/
Source code: https://github.com/knandersen/morphaweb
Morphaweb in action
Background One of my hobbies is modular synthesis. One of the modules I use is Morphagene by Make Noise. By their own description:
The Morphagene music synthesizer module is a next generation tape and microsound music module that uses Reels, Splices and Genes to create new sounds from those that already exist.
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18 Feb, 2021
Winters in Denmark are very brutal because of the lack of daylight, and the COVID-lockdown of 2020 only made it worse. I didn’t use to be affected by the darkness, but living with a foreigner experiencing her first Danish winters, I became much more aware of it.
Some years back, I started following @SunOfSeldo on Twitter. It’s an account that writes daily tweets about the advancement of daylight between winter- and summer-solstice, and finds this wonderful balance between quantitative measures of minutes and seconds of added daylight, but also writing qualitative, emotionally uplifting statements about the sun.
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18 Feb, 2021
When I moved into my apartment in Boston in 2018, I wanted to decorate my place. In recent years, I have refrained from putting posters or paintings my walls, because I feel like they become invisible to me over time.
Idea As a reaction to this, I started thinking about modular, low-cost, parametric DIY-art. Made in such a way that it could be reshaped regularly.
An artist I have been very inspired by is HOTTEA who makes vibrant yarn installations, often creating gradients by having hundreds or thousands of suspended strings of yarn in slightly different hues.
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Summary As this year’s first side project, I decided to make an Adventure Writer that lets people write AI-assisted adventures. If you want to give it a try, visit: http://knandersen.github.io/adventure-writer/
Demo recording of Adventure Writer at 2x speed
In this post dive into why I chose this project, thoughts behind the design, technical implementation and details, and how I could continue the work.
Background For the past few years, as also mentioned in last week’s post, I have been curious about the synergy of human and machine intelligence, especially in creative work.
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