Beck hires NASA for the visible AI album
For his new visual album, Hyperspace, Beck hired the NASA JPL team to curate mission images that were transformed into "hyperspace" using AI, a term popular in Star Wars that refers to a higher dimension, faster travel than light enables speed.
The AI and the direction were taken over by OSK, a studio specializing in disciplines such as creative AI, VR and interactive campaigns for employees ranging from Kanye West to Google to ex Machina director Alex Garland.
For Hyperspace, OSK used machine learning and the NASA archive to answer the question, "How would artificial intelligence envision our universe?"
Hundreds of thousands of mission images, videos and data were used to create a data set that can be fed into the General Adversarial Network (GAN) to provide a dark, structured view of the universe through the lens of an AI to create.
The resulting visualizations were processed into music videos for each track on the album, which in turn were integrated into an interactive platform that invites people to learn more about what lies beyond our solar system.
The album is also slated for a limited 12-inch vinyl release later this year, which will include a holographic jacket, a 24-page brochure with AI images, and NASA data on each track.
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