This is the piano version of the fully orchestrated version seen here: Midnight Dream
| Paul Battersby | piano, mixing, video |
| playgroundai | A.I. images |
The piano was recorded directly from my Yamaha Clavinova CLP745 digital piano.
Video created using MIDI Visualizer and HitFilm Free
The background images are all A.I. generated by playground AI
A short fictional tale of the struggles of a cargo ship from years gone by set to original music.
| Paul Battersby | music, mixing, story, video |
| James (Eleven Labs) | narration |
| playgroundai | A.I. images |
Orchestra sounds from (free) Virtual Playing Orchestra
The piano was recorded directly from my Yamaha Clavinova CLP745 digital piano.
Video created using HitFilm Free
The background images are all A.I. generated by playground AI
This is the piano version of the fully orchestrated version seen here: Like A Storm
I wanted to try out some piano visualization software and put out a piano only version of one of my compositions.
| Paul Battersby | piano, mixing, video |
| playgroundai | A.I. images |
The piano was recorded directly from my Yamaha Clavinova CLP745 digital piano.
Video created using MIDI Visualizer and HitFilm Free
The background images are all A.I. generated by playground AI
A story (set to original music) of what an ancient family might experience the morning before a battle.
This is a revised version in the way I always wanted to make the video but the tools were not available at the time for the original. This time I was able to use AI (Artificial Intelligence) to generate all the images that I needed and I was able to use AI to create the narration.
| Paul Battersby | piano, orchestra, mixing, video |
| Charlotte (Eleven Labs) | narration |
| playgroundai | A.I. images |
Orchestra sounds from (free) Virtual Playing Orchestra
The piano was recorded directly from my Yamaha Clavinova CLP745 digital piano. The Taiko drums are my customized library from from Taiko drums by S. Christian Collins that are available here: https://www.schristiancollins.com/vi-percussion.php
Video created using HitFilm Free – http://fxhome.com
The original video, with the same story but without images, without narration, just text, is here: Morning of the Battle – original
A short cartoon animation showing a poor hapless caveman discovering the hazards of making fire.
I liked this piano piece by Beethoven, decided to record the piano part and add my own orchestral accompaniment then I was able to fit an animation idea to the music.
It took me a while to come up with a unique design for the caveman. Having done that, I then had to figure out how the caveman should look when viewed from the side.
| Beethoven | original piano composition (Tempest) |
| Paul Battersby | piano, orchestra, mixing, video |
A slideshow style music video depicting the stages of life as changing seasons. This features A.I. images and my arrangement of the horn solo from Tchaikovsky’s 5th symphony. I used to hear my dad practice this and I thought it was odd he was playing Annie’s Song by John Denver, which it turns out was accidentally similar to this solo.
| Tchaikovsky | composition of horn solo from Tchaikovsky’s 5th symphony |
| Paul Battersby | arrangement, music, (all instruments from Virtual Playing Orchestra sample library), video |
Images via A.I. from http://playgroundai.com
A short piece of music (piano + light orchestration) and an experiment in using A.I. images and the smart phone shorts format.
A.I. images from playgroundai.com
YouTube videoThis is a cartoony story of evolution from the cooling of the earth to modern times that is loosely based on the science but skips MANY details. This is not meant to be particularly serious.
This was originally supposed to be a video to accompany some already existing music of mine, but the music really wasn’t going to fit so instead I composed some new music as required by each individual scene.
YouTube video
Images used that require attribution:
Stars
https://esahubble.org/news/heic1909/
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Acheloma
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Barylambda
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Cave
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shelter_below_the_Thief%27s_Cave_-_geograph.org.uk_-_170687.jpg
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Herpetotherium
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Taeniolabis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Taeniolabis_NT_small.jpg
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Purgatorius
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Purgatorius_BW.jpg
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Branchiosaurus
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Branchiosaurus_BW.jpg
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Eryops
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eryops1DB.jpg
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This is about a mouse I saw while biking. I noticed from a distance that it was running in circles. I went back to capture some video for YouTube. It occurred to me that I should compose some original music to go with it so I did.
As I was watching, a couple approached me and said they had tried to help the mouse (they called it a vole and were probably correct) back into the nearby bushes but it ended up on the road again. Another woman walking her dog gave me a peanut to put in the path of the mouse (vole) and although it’s circular path eventually brought it to the peanut, the mouse (vole) seemed uninterested in eating it. I watched for about 20 minutes before I left. I have no idea what happened to it.
YouTube video