Sleeptalking

A friend started using an app that records him while he sleeps. When he listened to the recordings, he was surprised to discover himself talking in his sleep, and recalled a hazy dream where he was confronting a criminal (the words below are actually what was recorded from his sleep-talking).

I wanted to experiment a bit with all this AI music generation stuff, and boom - a song and music video in about 12 hours of work over a long weekend. Science fiction until about two years ago, especially by someone who doesn't know how to play an instrument or how music works beyond an instinctive level.

SUNO did a great job getting things started, but the output wasn't exactly what I was looking for. I generated several songs in different styles and settings. I liked the vocals in one variation but not the rest, and liked most of another variation. So I started mixing and matching.

I used moises to separate the Suno output into stems (bass, drums, vocals), then kits.ai to create additional vocal tracks for harmonies. Logic Pro let me convert the drums track to MIDI so I could layer in more sampled drums and cymbals.

Finally, I spent a couple more hours creating a video clip with rotor. I searched for relevant keywords, selected a few royalty-free stock videos for "the atmosphere," and found multiple clips of an actor in various sleep-deprived situations (I got curious and looked him up later - turns out he's "ilya2k", a prolific content contributor from Ukraine). A few finishing touches in Final Cut Pro and it was done.

I'm a dubstep fan, so it came out a bit psychotic and not easy to digest, and also a touch too long, but it was fun!

הי, מה אתה לא מבין? פעם הבאה שאני פוקח עיניים ואתה פה... אני מתקשר למשטרה.

משטרה!

עוף מפה! עכשיו!
בסדר? בסדר.
ואל תחזור!

Hey, what don't you understand? Next time I wake up and you're here... I'm calling the police. Police! Get out of here! Now! Okay? Okay. And don't come back!