Time Machine

Regret knows no status

This is an experiment with AI video. It’s definitely improving, although my inability to do effective video editing significantly limits my abilities on that front. The quality of the AI music is officially reaching the “astonishing” level, as the voice consistency from song to song has now been firmly established, which is why I was able to remix this song from the Vibe Patrol original to one that is in line with the Soulsigma sound.

It’s not the full song due to the effective three-minute limit on Instagram, but close enough. What is perhaps most remarkable was that the whole video was generated from a single picture of me taken in 1993. I did a few tweaks to the original generation; the girl is from the cover image of an unreleased Vibe Patrol mix. So, on the one hand, none of it is real, on the other, as we know from The Refutation of Kant, the definition of what is real has been considerably expanded from what we have believed it to be for the last 250 years.

UPDATE: You can now see an updated version of the video at AI Central as well as a new work-in-progress.

IF YOU HAD A TIME MACHINE

You never knew what became of me

You might have thought that we were meant to be

I told you that I’d call you later

But I was dumb and you were seventeen

You flew out just to stay with me

We shared some secrets, you and me

But you went back to high school

To your real life, and we can’t turn back time

If you had a time machine, you’d know why I never called

If you had a time machine, you’d know why I dropped the ball

Back then I used to wait for your letters

And your pictures... so pretty

God, you were simply beautiful

And so graceful

I didn’t keep in touch with everyone I knew

But I did with you Just because, just in case

We might one day get together, never say never

But we can’t turn back time

If you had a time machine, you’d know why I never called

If you had a time machine, you’d know why I never called

It’s all too late now, you’re gone

I’m still here, you’re married

You have children, you have a family

You have a life... and so do I

I live with my regrets

And I don’t know where you are

I just know there’s no way back

If you had a time machine, you’d know why I never called

If you had a time machine, you’d know why I never called

If you had a time machine, you could write another letter

If you had a time machine, maybe it would all be better

If you had a time machine, you’d know why I took the fall

If you had a time machine, you’d know why I never called

See if you can point to the reasons this song would tend to be categorized as Sigma music, as opposed to the much more common Alpha music, Delta music, and Gamma music, aside from the obvious one of the songwriter.

And you want to hear how much both the song and the audio quality has changed since it was first composed, this was the aforementioned First Avenue mix which is not the original mix, but is much closer to that one. There is also a different Soulsigma mix on The Only Skull.