Absolutely Free - How To Paint Clouds - (Official Video)

Song: How To Paint Clouds Music and lyrics by: Absolutely Free From the album: Aftertouch https://smarturl.it/aftertouch -------------- A song about how great lengths are taken to develop artwork that carries a deeply considered intention, but once it is met by an audience, who come from their own unique set of experiences, this clear idea is laid open for reinterpretation in a way that ultimately negates this labour. A video developed by using machine learning to interpret 2000 paintings of clouds found on the internet to teach an algorithm to create it's own original cloud paintings. This means that every image in the video has been created by a computer program. The closed captions were created by feeding the vocals through a speech detection program and laid over the video using Youtube's closed captioning system. In this, the immateriality of the paintings subject matter reflects the songs dissection of the nature of art and ideas and exposes the tension found in the correlation between futility and necessity of intention. Although there are unimaginable forces at play in developing a cloud, or in creating art, however, all we are able to look for is another face in the sky, a mirror looking back at us. ---------------- Project by: Matt King Computer generated images: RunwayML Lyric speech to text transcript: Sonix.ai We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts in funding this project ------------------ Original lyrics: How To Paint Clouds Calling out for the insight of why (it was) meant to be--- calling an empirical style de-dolomitization can be recreated Calling an empirical sound Calling an empirical sound Looks like ancients had concepts created manifested to be apropos. But time had erased them. Garishly faded. There was a spark, then a flame, (and) now it’s gone Calling out for the insight of why (it was) meant to be Calling an empirical style A new set of what and why it was meant to be Content relation ersatz fabrications opposite of what you did years ago obstinate impatience constant repainting Maybe some things should be left in the past At revisionists helm, they will take it to be altered. They will dissect and adjust purpose until it is gone. Absolutely Free are a band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.