Singing the Story of Photography
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Scott Wyden Kivowitz: In the last episode, I shared an AI-made song called "The Lenses & Lyrics Song," and I shared the reasoning why I did it, and I asked you to comment on either Spotify or YouTube or wherever, or inside my, my membership called The Dojo, with your thoughts on AI music, and in particular, how that song came out, what you think of what it was able to do for free for a four-minute song.
And I have another one for you, [00:01:00] so I'd love for you to do this again a second time. This song is called "The History of Photography." I want to hear what you think AI did for this song. I did the same thing, went to Gemini. I said, " create a folk pop song that is about the history of photography."
It gave me the lyrics, and then I said, "Okay, describe it." It described it, brought it into this tool with the lyrics, and it did its thing. So listen to this song for the next few minutes, and then please go to Spotify, go to YouTube, wherever player that you have that you're listening to that offers commenting, or if you're on Apple Podcast, please go to one of the others just for this purpose, or go to The Dojo.
All of that is linked in the show notes. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Enjoy the song. [00:02:00] Silver salts on a copper plate. Waiting for the sun to decide the fate. Daguerre watched the shadows turn to gold. A static world for the eyes to behold. The exposure took an hour. Capturing a ghost that was standing there. From the darkroom tray to the digital eye. Freezing the clouds in a shifting sky.
The history of light is written in gray. Keeping the moments that slipped away. Talbot found a way to make the image repeat. Paper negatives made the process complete. Then came the glass and the wet collodion mix. [00:03:00] Camera came the glass and the wet collodion cart. Turning a science through a Delory lux. Celluloid strips rolling through the machine. The most honest witness. Polaroids developed in the palm of a hand. Instant colors across the land. Now the sensors count the photons in the air. Billions of pixels are everywhere. A million memories stored on a chip. A lifelong journey in a fingertip. From the darkroom tray to the digital eye. Freezing the clouds in a shifting sky. The history of light is written [00:04:00] in gray. Keeping the moments. The shutter still clicks like a heart in a chest. Putting the motion of time to a rest. From the first hazy silhouette on the wall. To capture it all.