A Beach Boys fan launched a model of the band’s deserted album Smile, utilizing synthetic intelligence software program to finish the tracks.
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Creator Mike LeRoy fabricated a backstory for his work earlier than detailing how he introduced it to fruition. “In the summer of 2018 I traveled to Japan,” he wrote within the video description, claiming he discovered the album in a secondhand retailer. “I slid a pink record sleeve out of a neatly packed shelf of vinyl records. Looking down at my prize, I was presented with a Native American glancing at the bicycle parked on the shore. The OBI strip simply read: The Beach Boys Smile.”
He continued: “When the needle hit the disc, I discovered something utterly shocking: a seemingly complete, clean, stereo mix of the Beach Boys’ unreleased opus. Or not! That’s just a story! But after all, in some universe that must be true.”
Listen to Mike LeRoy’s AI Version of the Beach Boys’ ‘Smile’
Originally deliberate as a follow-up to the Pet Sounds, Smile collapsed below the load of Brian Wilson’s perfectionism, psychological instability and drug use. The Beach Boys shelved the venture and launched the simplified Smiley Smile in 1967. Wilson revisited and re-recorded the fabric for 2004’s Brian Wilson Presents Smile, and in 2011 the Beach Boys launched The Smile Sessions, a hypothetical reconstruction pulled from the unique album periods.
LeRoy defined in his liner notes how he created Wilson-style vocals for the tracks that by no means featured them. “Months and months ago when I began this project, I was pretty sure the community would be morally opposed to AI vocals,” he wrote. “This had always been a dream of mine, but I wasn’t sure how I felt. When I started to see [another fan’s] work with his AI Brian model, I realized the time had come to unleash it on the world.”
He skilled the AI utilizing a current singing voice conversion mannequin. “I hadn’t used it for Smile much because I wasn’t sure I wanted to,” he admitted. “In hindsight, after the 100 hours I must’ve put into the whole process of getting Brian’s voice out of this machine, it was well worth it. If you turn off your mind and, perhaps, sing along, it really can feel like Brian sang on these. A special feeling I’m blessed to have been a part of making happen.”
LeRoy’s model of Smile comes shortly after an Oasis fan launched an AI-based album of “new music” from the defunct band. British group Breezer launched The Lost Tapes final week, claiming they’d gotten tired of ready for brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher to get again collectively. Liam responded to the venture by calling it “mad as fuck” and including: “I sound mega.”
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