(BMG) Jonathan Wilson today releases his brand new single, "Marzipan" (BMG), accompanied by a stunning music video produced entirely using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
"With my new single 'Marzipan,' I wanted to break out of any and all comfort zones I may have lapsed into as a writer, narrator, producer, or player," says Wilson. "I discovered a little-known song called "Warm Rumours" from the early 70's that was playful, risky, experimental, and took no prisoners. I wrote the string and horn arrangements for 'Marzipan' myself, and it was a pleasure to have these wonderful players put my melodies on this recording, and into the gentle listener's ears. I wanted a Walker Brothers' "The Electrician" string moment at some point in my life, that degree of beauty, and I think this gets me close."
Wilson adds, "The song chronicles some of my life autobiographically when I lived in NYC in the early 2000's in my 20's. The feeling of Greenpoint, Brooklyn at that moment. Countering that with a deep dive into Hank Williams, Roy Acuff, and my early fascination with the Harry Smith Anthology during those years, I was obsessed. And of course, jazz, which changed my life forever."
The music video for "Marzipan" was created using AI stable diffusion, a latent text-to-image diffusion model. This technology is conducive to illustrating the vivid, psychedelic, dreamlike lyrical journey of the song. The story and the technology used in the music video also pay homage to the great Terence Mckenna who predicted, 'The future is going to be a combination of biological and technological intelligence. You're not going to be able to tell where the human stops and the machine starts. We are at the threshold of a profoundly transforming moment in the life of our species. We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable, for the transcendent, for the divine. And now technology is giving us tools that they never dreamed of, and that means we're going to be able to explore consciousness at levels that were previously unimaginable.'"
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