A piece of work made by use of AI music generation, DAW programming and playing, and AI video generation.

Drawing inspiration from musique concrete, noise, industrial punk, drone, qgom as well as pop art as manifested by AI music generation - ie mass produced, slightly generic (yet credible) genre tropes.

It is an attempt to grapple with the age old tension between process and product - a question AI has recently been throwing back to the art community: what is the relationship between process and product? As a creator, how do I feel about AI turning my part in the creative process into semantic commands / prompts?

The phrase ‘ain’t got time for that’ is a riff on the circa 2013 meme ‘ain’t nobody got time for that’ and in this case were the first lyrics that came into my head when prompting Udio (an AI music generation platform) to create various pieces of music in various genres. I was feeling quite threatened by AI at the time and was testing out the platform to see how good it really was (as you may have heard, the results were disconcertingly impressive). But the phrase ‘ain’t got time for that’ got stuck in my head after those experiments, and eventually prompted this work as a means to ‘work it out’.

The aggressive beats and bass somehow felt like a good fit here - heavily processed, degraded 'neon sound' / noise aesthetic - resulting in the interesting tension of man imitating machine, imitating man.

The visuals are soon to be outdated AI video generations from various platforms. There were (naturally) problems with artifacts (eg lip synching), although in a way I'm also trying to represent the artifacts, by superimposing various prompts like 'a neon motherboard' or 'an elephant' or 'the queen of England' over an AI generated video of a person (or people) singing the words 'ain't got time for that', evoking the prophetic 'Simulacra and Simulation' type problems that AI is currently unleashing upon us, that Jean Baudrillard foresaw in the late 70s and early 80s.

While I have cautiously been playing with AI in this (and other) ways, I have also found myself digging further into my personal musical processes like playing, practicing and listening.