Neural Defense: recording of the dedication album to Egor Letov using neural networks

    Waiting for miracles,
    Impossible miracles.
    I look into the darkness,
    But I do not believe in progress.

    I want to be a killer,
    I want to be alive.
    I just have to
    live to gray hair.

    imageA worn out audio cassette is spinning, guitars are discordantly humming, a voice sings, in which the unbridled joy of the condemned to death is felt, texts are played that are mixed up with the aesthetics of absurdity. Unknown album of Egor Letov? Only the name is strange: “Neural Defense” ...

    No, this is a modern project of stylization for “Civil Defense”, made using a computer neural network. The authors of the project are Alexey Tikhonov and Ivan Yamshchikov , who worked with like-minded people: Pavel Gertman and Ilya Yedrenkin .

    After reviewing the achievements of modern neural networks, which can draw a picture and compose a verseIvan immediately set himself the goal of using computer technology to stylize a cult poet.

    After going through famous poets, from Pushkin to Kharms, the comrades decided instead of simply reading the poems received from the neural network to record an entire musical album in which small poems will be interspersed with musical compositions also created on the verses of a computer.

    The founder of the immortal "Civil Defense" Yegor Letov with his "garage" sound and absurd poems, in the opinion of the conspirators, fit perfectly. True, Ivan faced unforeseen difficulties trying to reproduce the authentic sound of the team on modern equipment. Fuses and guitars refused to “rightly” rattle, Ivan’s home drum machine didn’t have to knock right.

    The necessary sound was selected by trial and error, as well as the unique structure of the Russian rock pioneers of the 80s, “in which the upper and the lower strings diverged by semitones,” according to the author of the project. As a result, the album contains verses performed by Alexei and songs with the vocals of Ivan, who tried to sing "under Egor."

    Instead of reproducing the original and rather complicated method of mixing with two tape recorders, in which the basses sometimes disagreed with the drums, the guys added authenticity by simply overtaking the resulting tape recording and then digitizing it back.

    At the same time, according to them, an audio cassette was used, on which songs “GO” were recorded earlier. A little occult still harmed no one. Pavel Gertman is responsible for choosing an audio cassette, digitizing the album and drawing it, to the best of psychedelic cover. Ilya Edrenkin helped like-minded people to cope with the neural network.

    The friends' album was posted absolutely free of charge on Yandex.Music , iTunes , Google.Play and Amazon Music, where they can be enjoyed indiscriminately.

    I wonder if unforgettable Boris Borisovich will be concerned about this news? His texts are all the same, except for him, are not clear to anyone. Do not send soon to retire artificial intelligence, in addition to truckers and seamstresses , and even songwriters? ..

    Robot from Yandex back in 2006 demonstrated the possibility autogeneration poems with stylized Pushkin, and in 2013 "Avtopoet" began to write poetry based on search queries. From 2015, these “works” can be heard “performed by the author”, that is, using the voice generation system.

    Yegor Letov(real name: Igor Fedorovich Letov) - Omsk poet, musician, sound producer, graphic designer, collage artist. Founder, leader and sole permanent member of the Civil Defense group. Also known for the musical projects "Egor and Opp ****** vshie" and "Communism". The key figure in the so-called "Siberian underground" - the musical-poetic movement that emerged in Western Siberia in the late 1980s.

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