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Patrick Feaster's Explorations in Historical Media
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Who was the Pioneer Recording Artist “Florence Hayward”?
Published: September 15, 2024 15:32
While researching the Three Mrs. Cal Stewarts, I ran across some references to another woman who was briefly associated with the creator of Uncle Josh Weathersby and Punkin Center, and I’ve decided to dedicate the present spinoff post to her before…
The Three Mrs. Cal Stewarts, Part One: Pretty Kitty Clover
Published: March 20, 2024 00:26
Cal Stewart’s celebrity as a phonograph performer has regrettably drawn attention away from another pioneer of audio theater who was identified to the public simply as “Mrs. Cal Stewart.” There has long been confusion as to her identity, thanks in no…
“Heap Talk”: Cal Stewart’s Letters to Palmer Kellogg (1917)
Published: February 19, 2024 00:15
Cal Stewart was the most popular American spoken-word recording artist of the early twentieth century, and he was the first performer—as far as I’m aware—whose live appearances were routinely promoted on the basis of his recordings rather than the other…
Introducing SyDNEy (Stable Diffusion Numerical Explorer)
Published: February 7, 2024 12:50
With this post, I’d like to share a piece of software I’ve written to make it easier to carry out a variety of experimental processes in Stable Diffusion, including—but not limited to—making direct numerical adjustments to prompt embeddings and noise…
One Strategy for Generating Extended Pieces of Music with AI
Published: January 3, 2024 03:23
Let’s ring in the new year with some more AI-generated music—a whole album’s worth this time (72:54). Each of the thirty selections presented below begins and ends rather abruptly, and the music often has little obvious connection with the text prompt I…
Creating Synesthetic Sound-Pictures with Generative AI
Published: December 23, 2023 23:57
Pictures can be turned into sound recordings, and sound recordings can be turned into pictures. That much is old news: transformations in both directions have long been used for creative and artistic purposes. Some musicians like to hide images in audio…
A Deeper Dive into Numerical Prompting in Stable Diffusion
Published: October 14, 2023 14:23
I’ve been continuing to experiment with using numbers rather than words to prompt Stable Diffusion—a technique that lets us tap directly into its own mysterious internal system of classifications. My idea is that if we can learn through trial and error…
A Phonographic Record of a Speech by Charles Dickens (1858)
Published: September 4, 2023 18:50
On February 9, 1858, Charles Dickens gave an extemporaneous speech at the annual dinner of the Hospital for Sick Children held at the Freemason’s Tavern in London. His exact words would have been lost to posterity, except for the fact that they happen to…
Learn Ten of Stable Diffusion’s Internal Image Descriptors (135-144)
Published: August 22, 2023 01:02
How would you like to learn an utterly alien classification system for pictures—one contrived by an intelligence other than human, based on principles of similarity and difference no living being might ever have thought of before? And what if you could do…
Adventures in Stable Diffusion #4: One Step at a Time
Published: July 12, 2023 12:51
Changing Stable Diffusion prompts “midstream”—that is, partway through denoising—has become a reasonably standard technique. But it’s possible to make other changes midstream as well, such as switching models or guidance scale settings, and those…