My debut into solarpunky vocaloid music. Music produced by me in garageband/piapro/synthv, art made in clip studio, video rendered with a neato little tool called vizzy.

Quick caveat: I know it says Kasane Teto “AI” as one of the artists. This is not generative AI. Vocaloid is way, way older than any of them there GPTs, and is a wholly different kind of computer-assisted music. It’s the difference between digital artists spending hours on digital art (Good!) and prompt peddlers generating “AI Art” (the devil). While Kasane Teto is now an “AI voicebank”, her voice was still provided by a single, paid individual, and honestly I’m… not entirely sure what the AI part is. I made her voice do the sing thing. There might have been some natural language processing with how she’s able to pronounce English, I think?

I will 100% unleash my autism to rant and rave further about how vocaloid works, if anyone’s interested. But mostly I want to share my music and its meanings. This song was basically made for this instance, which I do love so dearly.

If anyone has questions about my music creation process or my lyric writing thoughts, uh, please ask. I’ll answer. That’s a promise and a threat.