We began this documentary video on Artificial Intelligence in early 2022, before the rapid pace of advancement in AI (MidJourney and Dall-E became accessible only weeks into our work) was in all the headlines. While tempted to rely heavily on AI for the piece, we soon realized that by the time our documentary was complete, the technology would likely have advanced so far as to render our efforts obsolete. So AI became an assistant.
To bring a human element to our film compositionally, different musical elements were woven throughout: voices chanting, pulsing strings, thick electronic textures, simple melodic motifs. One longer musical sequence was established that was returned to as a theme and variations that reflected the ways that AI often builds on itself, the music essentially adding layers as AI does to tell its story.