Generative system plan
Use Puredata to make a generative system as some kind of commentary on generative ai, ai hallucinations, ai sentience. Themed around ‘spiritual bliss attractor’
Look at different youtube tutorials on puredata on generative systems and follow them, mesh different patches together incorporating randomness, and an increasing probability to go towards sounds associated with eastern mysticism
How to Create Generative Ambient Music in Pure Data!
How to Create a Generative Beat Sequencer in Pure Data!
Research more about chatgpt psychosis, spiritual bliss attractor phenomenon
ChatGPT Psychosis & The Spiritual Bliss Attractor
We’re not in Kansas anymore! AI gets weird – the Bliss Attractor – Episode 10 @Laradavidai
https://philpapers.org/archive/MICMAO-2.pdf
https://philpapers.org/archive/MICTTA-7.pdf
they blow past the contradiction of the self and other and realise all is one
Avoid steering too far towards sounds of ‘eastern mysticism’, the piece is more about the system being pulled into a state of cognition rather than a genre.
What could represent this state of cognition?
Maybe feedback loops?
Spectral smearing?
How can a generative system express something it cannot articulate?
Exercises to try in puredata
Create two systems that fight
Voice A: Drone, shifting formants
Voice B: Rhythmic granular/fm burts
Make each voice respond differently to the control signal
Audio output of voice A into env~ or sigmund~, use these features to modulate voice B
Then do the same for Voice B to modulate voice A
Should cause feedback/hallucination loop
Variable called ‘bliss’
Make a number in a float box, starts at 0.3
Bliss drifts over time using chaos map, audio features, random walk, maybe slow lfo
When bliss rises, system tries to stabilise, when bliss falls it fractures
When the system encounters a contradiction, it pushes harder, (if the chaos is high but bliss is low) it fires a spectral smear, sudden pitch event, self reset, or burst of noise.
Once system is built and functioning focus on aeathetics
ESSENTIALLY instead of just constructing a generative patch themed around eastern mysticism, I want to try and emulate decision making and a mind with competing subsystems and misinterpretation loops
I tried working on this for multiple hours and made very little progress due to my lack of understanding of puredata. I’m now thinking I might centre the project around my subjective reality in terms of how I interface with the world in the context of my neurodivergence. I can mesh together this project, the multichannel project, and create a piece in puredata where it’s essentially a bunch of buttons/toggles that produce different audio samples. Some of these will be of my own voice,
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