chains - music video
Here is the full-length video for the new single ‘Chains!’
The video was created by using RunwayAI to manipulate the cover art from the new album ‘Salt’. Nura Qureshi created the original artwork for the album by combining salt crystals with photo development chemicals, allowing them to interact and then dry on thick paper. The resulting prints lent themselves extremely well to AI manipulation. Using only the two front and back cover prints from Nura, I created dozens of short videos, where the AI found different ways to alter, develop and otherwise animate the originally static images. I edited these together to create the full-length video you see here.
This was my first time playing around with AI, and I have to say I found it totally addictive. It was so interesting to see what it would do with each prompt, with the same image and the same prompt sometimes coming up with extremely different results. Experiments with images of myself turned usually somehow creepy or alien, but these abstract pictures came alive in a fascinating way. Most importantly, I think they fit very well to the music.
Hope you enjoy!
Original artwork by @nuraqureshi
Artwork manipulation by Marla with RunwayAI
