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How I Made an AI Music Video, Part 2: Video Generation

In this second part of my series, I break down the technical workflow I used to create the AI-generated visuals for "Through the Mystic Green," focusing on the challenge of maintaining character and style consistency across shots when video models treat each clip as isolated. Rather than fighting against the AI's limitations, I embraced a "happy accidents" approach inspired by Bob Ross, letting the AI guide the creative process and working collaboratively with tools like Kling 2.1 to create unexpected but compelling visual storytelling moments.

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How I Made an AI Music Video, Part 1: Music Generation and Remixing Workflow

In this video, I break down the music production process behind my AI-generated animated music video "Through the Mystic Green," demonstrating that working with AI isn't about typing a prompt and getting a finished product—it's a collaborative, iterative process that requires traditional remixing and editing skills. I'll walk you through my complete workflow using Suno for music generation, from initial creation to stem separation and final production in Ableton, showing how AI serves as a powerful productivity tool that enhances rather than replaces creative expertise.

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Through the Mystic Green

An experimental AI-generated music video combining generative AI for both music and visuals. This is the complete music video referenced in my upcoming tutorial series where I break down the entire production process, showing how AI tools integrate with traditional music production workflows.

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Endless Ascent

"Endless Ascent" is a visual meditation on the human condition: forever climbing toward transcendence. In this piece, I used the new advanced stem separation features in Suno 4.5 for remixing and editing the final track. The visuals were created with Veo 3.

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The Moonlight Kissed the Empty Shore

In this piece, I integrated multiple AI platforms, Suno 4.5 for the melancholic melody and lyrics, Leonardo.ai to bring the central female character to life, and Kling 2.0 for the visual storytelling, creating a music video that captures her movements at a time long lost. The project showcases how these complementary AI tools can seamlessly blend to create emotionally resonant digital content where visuals and music enhance the narrative of remembrance and longing.

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I'm so Sora (Electronica)

"I'm so Sora" is an electronic track produced with the assistance of the generative AI system Udio.com. The primary purpose of this track was to test Sora's capabilities to produce video loops that can run in the background.

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Waves of Serenity (Electronic Downtempo)

"Waves of Serenity" is an electronic downtempo track produced with the assistance of the generative AI system Udio.com. The track was primarily produced and edited with help of the inpainting tools in Udio. I only added some very basic remastering to control the AI artifacts.

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Desert Princess (Electronic World Music)

This track will be used in two upcoming videos on my main channel and is being published here for those interested. Created using Suno AI with minimal modifications, the piece is an electronic composition with Middle Eastern influences that successfully captures the intended aesthetic.

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Teaching for Tomorrow (Michael’s ICERI2024 Song)

This track transforms my recent ICERI2024 conference presentation into a musical piece, created in collaboration with AI tools from Anthropic Claude and Suno. The final version includes extensive post-processing and remastering to achieve the desired sound quality.

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Something Simple '24, Hallucination #1 (Ambient Trance)

"Something Simple '24, Hallucination #1" is an electronic dance track produced with the help of the AI system Udio.com. This remix is based on one of my first releases, "Something Simple". I used a small clip from the original to prompt Udio.com and developed the track from there.

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Eclectic Waves (Ambient Trance)

"Eclectic Waves" is an ambient progressive trance track created through iterative collaboration with AI technology, demonstrating a nuanced approach to AI-assisted music production that goes beyond simple prompt-to-track generation.

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