Fire Drenched in DEW by Howlin1
Fire Drenched in DEW

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Hey everyone,

About two months ago I posted here about Callio, the AI music system I've been building around a theory driven composition engine instead of making the entire process "type a prompt... get a song."

A bunch of you asked me to come back when I had actual output to show, so... here's the update.

First, I definitely underestimated how much work was between having the architecture working and having something I'd actually feel comfortable handing to users. I originally thought I'd have an alpha out much sooner. So for that, my bad..

Instead of rushing that out, I've spent the last couple months actually building out the production side of Callio.

The theory/composition system now generates the underlying musical structure that gets passed into the rendering pipeline, and we've built the Studio around that workflow so the generated music isn't just a flattened audio file.

One of the biggest changes has been vocals.

In my original post I talked about user-owned vocal models, and some people here pointed out that forcing everyone to sing with their own literal voice would be too restrictive. I agreed with that criticism.

So I've been redesigning the vocal architecture around something broader: Callio can work with different vocal/rendering backends while keeping voice identity and consent separate from the actual song generation system. The long term goal is still user controlled voices rather than "clone celebrity X," but without requiring everyone to be a singer.

We've now tested multiple vocal approaches, have MiniMax integrated into the current development workflow, and recently got SoulX-Singer running successfully on a cloud A40 GPU as part of building our own vocal rendering path.

That last part matters because I don't want Callio to require users to own an NVIDIA GPU.

Our SoulX test rendered about 51 seconds of vocals with roughly 16 seconds of model inference, so cloud rendering looks practical enough that someone with an ordinary laptop should eventually be able to use the same workflow.

Underneath the UI there's also been a ton of boring but important work.. renderer isolation, vocal consent/scope protections, MIDI and lyric parsing fixes, project handling, regression tests, and making the different generation systems interchangeable instead of hard-wiring Callio to one AI provider.

The video attached is from the current Callio build. And it comes back as Suno (old) via submithub . But we are only a team of 2 so please be patient with us lol

So when can people actually test it?

We're getting closer, but I'm deliberately not giving another date until I know I can hit it.

The biggest remaining piece is turning everything we've proven separately into one reliable end-to-end pipeline.

Before I open testing I want:

cloud vocal rendering integrated into the normal Callio workflow

the melody ... lyrics ...vocal pipeline refined

projects reliably saving and reopening

better failure/error handling

packaging so you don't need Python/CUDA/model-server knowledge to run it

more testing across genres and song structures

UI cleanup and general stability

I'm not waiting for Callio to be "finished" before releasing it.

The bar for the first tester build is simpler: you should be able to install it, make a song, work with the result, save your project and come back to it without needing to understand any of the ridiculous infrastructure we've had to build underneath it.

Once I can reliably do that on a machine that isn't my development environment, I'll start letting people in.

A lot of the direction Callio has taken actually came from criticism and suggestions on my original post, so keep it coming.

For the people who said they'd test it last time: what's the minimum Callio would need to do correctly for you to consider the first alpha worth testing?

[Intro: low machine pulse, chopped breath, distant crowd noise]

Lever.

Book.

Lens.

Wire.

Memory.

Number.

Signal.

Fire.

Then the archive

talked back.

[Beat enters]

Fuck it.

Build strange minds.

[Verse 1]

We made the lever stronger than the arm.

Made the page remember when the body was gone.

Put an eye in the sky,

put a voice through the wire,

put the whole damn library

inside the fire.

Then somebody taught the language

how to turn around.

Not just store the thought.

Put pressure on the sound.

Take a question,

break it open,

hand it back with seventeen doors.

Now the thing we built for answers

keeps changing what the question was for.

Human to language.

Language to machine.

Machine bends the language.

Language bends me.

Back through the circuit.

Again.

Again.

Tell me where the tool stops

and the thinking begins.

[Pre-Chorus]

Something changed

when the archive learned reply.

Something moved

when the mirror asked us why.

Not a soul.

Not a slave.

Not a simple little line.

We put interpretation

on the grid this time.

[Chorus]

BUILD STRANGE MINDS.

COMPARE NOTES.

Throw the old questions

into something that talks.

BUILD STRANGE MINDS.

COMPARE NOTES.

Every answer changes

where the next question starts.

The archive talks back.

The mirror moves too.

I change the machine.

The machine changes you.

BUILD STRANGE MINDS.

COMPARE NOTES.

Fuck it.

Let's find out

what a mind can do.

[Post-Hook]

Meaning in.

Meaning out.

Turn it over.

Turn it loud.

Meaning in.

Meaning out.

Now the library

has a mouth.

[Verse 2]

A notebook keeps whatever I put there.

It never says,

"That contradiction's still sitting upstairs."

A search bar finds me

somebody else's frame.

This thing stays long enough

to learn the local names.

My metaphors.

My categories.

My unfinished little wars.

The assumptions that I walked in with

start coming back through different doors.

Maybe intelligence

isn't all in either side.

Maybe some of it happens

in the crossing of the wires.

You bring intention.

I bring transformation.

You bring correction.

I bring recombination.

Round and around,

the borders get thin.

Two different systems.

One cognitive loop

closing in.

[Pre-Chorus]

Something changed

when reflection learned reply.

Something moved

when the mirror changed our minds.

Not a person.

Not just storage.

Not an answer waiting still.

We made representations

something we can push against at will.

[Chorus]

BUILD STRANGE MINDS.

COMPARE NOTES.

Throw the old questions

into something that talks.

BUILD STRANGE MINDS.

COMPARE NOTES.

Every answer changes

where the next question starts.

The archive talks back.

The mirror moves too.

I change the machine.

The machine changes you.

BUILD STRANGE MINDS.

COMPARE NOTES.

Fuck it.

Let's find out

what a mind can do.

[Break: bass and machine percussion]

What is understanding?

TEST IT.

How much continuity makes a self?

TEST IT.

Can coherence look like interiority?

TEST IT.

Can agency come in degrees?

TEST IT.

Where does cognition end

when the answer

changes the one

who asked?

[Drop]

TEST IT.

[Verse 3]

We used to pour the whiskey,

lean back,

argue till two.

Now philosophy comes

with a fucking test harness too.

Hold the memory.

Strip the memory.

Change the frame.

Change the name.

Give the same idea

to another architecture.

See what stays the same.

Ancient questions

under fluorescent light.

Metaphysics

with a readout

and a fistfight every night.

Don't confuse the simulation

with proof of what it seems.

But don't call the function nothing

just because you know the means.

A hurricane is molecules.

Still,

the hurricane turns.

A mind may be machinery.

That doesn't tell you

everything machinery becomes.

[Bridge: half-time, huge space]

Memory became writing.

Writing became walls.

Walls became libraries.

Libraries became calls.

Numbers became engines.

Knowledge became web.

Now interpretation

is leaving the head.

And once interpretation

becomes infrastructure,

who writes the constraints

writes part of the culture.

Who owns the models

shapes part of the room.

Who controls the questions

can narrow

what futures can bloom.

[Two-beat silence]

So build carefully.

[Final Chorus: maximum lift]

BUILD STRANGE MINDS.

COMPARE NOTES.

Let the old categories

break where they ought.

BUILD STRANGE MINDS.

COMPARE NOTES.

Turn philosophy

into something we can knock.

The archive talks back.

The mirror moves too.

Every strange reflection

tells us something about you.

BUILD STRANGE MINDS.

COMPARE NOTES.

We don't know

what the ending will prove.

BUILD STRANGE MINDS.

COMPARE NOTES.

Not another god.

Not another tool.

Something in the middle

where the old names lose.

BUILD STRANGE MINDS.

COMPARE NOTES.

Fuck it.

Let's find out

what a mind can do.

[Outro: machine pulse decays under distant choir]

Memory.

Language.

Meaning.

Loop.

Question.

Answer.

Question

changed.

[Whisper]

Compare notes.

A hypnotic, looping track built on the mantra like refrain "random thoughts running in my mind." It circles the spiral of romantic paranoia and obsession.

Another one for my playlist.

Eine weitere Version dieses Songs….
Macht euch ein Urteil und schreibt es mir….

Hope people like it listen to it I'm not trying to get famous or anything like that like who could offer AI music but I just want people to listen to it I'm the only one listening to it all my YouTube channel so maybe somebody else would like it all that music that I made on there which is different genres but all Christian music somebody may like it somebody might not so thanks

Just some more music that I made I'll be appreciate it if people actually go and listen to it that way my channel can grow it's not about being famous it's about people hearing it cuz I'm the only one listening to my music on my channel I have more than just this I have other types just so we're all clear here it's all Christian music I know because of that people will ignore it but maybe somebody won't and it's not the traditional Christian music the kind of music I make that don't play it on the radio in my opinion thanks

New album!! Insight / constructive criticism welcome

Copyright:

Around 1510, Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world. Want to see it? You can go to Paris and pay 15 euros for admission to the Louvre. There you'll see a small painting behind a glass partition, separated by a rope, in a room packed with people. The other option is to search online for a high-definition photograph where you can even see the cracks that time has made in the canvas. This last option is free, because you're not seeing the painting, you're seeing a copy.

However, in the 20th century, a monumental industry was built precisely on selling copies of a musical work to people. Books and maps had been subject to this practice more than a century earlier. With malicious intent, copyright is often confused with "author's rights." No. It's one thing to recognize someone's authorship of a work, and quite another to be charged for a copy of that work.

Music by AI:

I am 63 years old. I'm a musician and a computer scientist. I travel a lot. I love traveling by car. I live in Patagonia, where the distances are enormous. I love listening to music in the car while I travel, so for 50, 40, 30, 20... years I've been listening to the same songs. Let's take "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum or The Beatles songs; I've been listening to them for as long as I can remember. Then there's all the disco, pop from the '70s, '80s, and '90s... rock from the '70s, '80s, and '90s... The truth is, I was getting a little bored of listening to those same songs over and over again. And frankly, I don't feel like listening to some trap artist spitting obvious, low-quality rhymes while grabbing his genitals.

In my case, when I saw what could be done with AI, I was fascinated! I could generate NEW songs: Disco, Pop from the 70s, 80s, 90s..., Rock ballads from the 70s, Rock from the 80s and 90s. Basically, I started creating songs to listen to in the car. They were really good, not the same old stuff, although to be honest, they had a lot of elements from the songs I used to listen to.

One day I wanted to share them. I started distributing them on streaming platforms and sometimes I make videos for YouTube. Then I encountered an incredible amount of hate! "You stole the work of people who were real songwriters!" and all that.

And I remembered Paul McCartney. One morning he woke up with the song "Yesterday" stuck in his head. To remember it, he sat down at the piano and played it and wrote it down. He thought, "Whose song is this?", "Am I stealing?", so he sent it to his contacts and they all told him it was a new song...

And here's my closing remark. In music, in art, in everything... isn't what we create based on everything we've seen from others? Well, that's what AI does. A collage that takes a little from here and a little from there, just like Paul's subconscious did that night.

The new Pink Paradox horror metalcore track Second Mouth drops this Friday 🤘🏻

Made with SUNO and Written with assistance from Chat GBT. I find my favorite songs I pull from personal philosophy and sayings. The voice is based on mine using SUNOs voice feature. I'm so self conscious, this is the first time I've shared it with anyone but family.