Songs About Fucking Suno
- 1Giant Steps
- 2Sunogenesis
- 3No One Buys Books
- 4Wilful Copyright Infringement
- 5ASMR hitlist
- 6I Think, If You Wrote A Book, You Fucked Up
- 7Call numbers
- 8Fair Use
- 9It’s Just Not For That
- 10Audible Anagrams
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Machine Listening - Songs About Fucking Suno, 2024
Researched, written and produced: Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker, Joel Stern)
Tracklist:
1. Giant Steps - a chorus of voice clones attempts to replicate John Coltrane’s Giant Steps, a piece often presented as an apotheosis of human creativity and complexity. For this reason, it’s also sometimes used to demonstrate computer music techniques ('Wagner harmonises giant steps’).
2. Sunogenesis - Lyrics by Suno CEO Mikey Schulman.
3. No One Buys Books - Lyrics based on this article about the state of the book publishing industry. Even celebrity books flop.
4. Wilful Copyright Infringement - A song about the scraping practices of generative AI. Lyrics by the Recording Industry Association of America. “Given that the foundation of [these businesses] has been to exploit copyrighted sound recordings without permission, [they have] been deliberately evasive about what exactly [they have] copied. This is unsurprising. After all, to answer that question honestly would be to admit willful copyright infringement on an almost unimaginable scale.”
5. ASMR hitlist - An ASMR CEO hitlist.
6. I Think, If You Wrote A Book, You Fucked Up - Lyrics by disgraced crypto CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, in a particularly clear example of tech-CEO brain.
7. Call numbers - The library reference codes for books held in the State Library collection with ‘how to read’ in the title: as lyrics.
8. Fair Use - Lyrics taken from the lawsuit against Suno and Udio. Made in Suno.
9. It’s Just Not For That - Lyrics from a podcast interview with Suno CEO Mikey Shulman. Genre prompt: Medieval Bardcore.
10. Audible Anagrams - All possible anagrams of the word ‘audible’.
Researched, written and produced: Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker, Joel Stern)
Tracklist:
1. Giant Steps - a chorus of voice clones attempts to replicate John Coltrane’s Giant Steps, a piece often presented as an apotheosis of human creativity and complexity. For this reason, it’s also sometimes used to demonstrate computer music techniques ('Wagner harmonises giant steps’).
2. Sunogenesis - Lyrics by Suno CEO Mikey Schulman.
3. No One Buys Books - Lyrics based on this article about the state of the book publishing industry. Even celebrity books flop.
4. Wilful Copyright Infringement - A song about the scraping practices of generative AI. Lyrics by the Recording Industry Association of America. “Given that the foundation of [these businesses] has been to exploit copyrighted sound recordings without permission, [they have] been deliberately evasive about what exactly [they have] copied. This is unsurprising. After all, to answer that question honestly would be to admit willful copyright infringement on an almost unimaginable scale.”
5. ASMR hitlist - An ASMR CEO hitlist.
6. I Think, If You Wrote A Book, You Fucked Up - Lyrics by disgraced crypto CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, in a particularly clear example of tech-CEO brain.
7. Call numbers - The library reference codes for books held in the State Library collection with ‘how to read’ in the title: as lyrics.
8. Fair Use - Lyrics taken from the lawsuit against Suno and Udio. Made in Suno.
9. It’s Just Not For That - Lyrics from a podcast interview with Suno CEO Mikey Shulman. Genre prompt: Medieval Bardcore.
10. Audible Anagrams - All possible anagrams of the word ‘audible’.
