00:00Good morning it's late March 2026 and over the weekend back on Saturday
00:09morning I recorded the last of the 500 songs that were appearing in my dreams
00:17the last one I was going to record. If you watched this vlog before in the last year or so
00:23you know
00:24that if I was asleep and I was dreaming and in the dream or as I woke up out of
00:29the dream
00:29if there's a piece of music in my head with words the first thing I'll try and do when I
00:37woke up
00:37would be record it before I fell asleep or got up or whatever. I decided to do 500 of these
00:45the first
00:46one I recorded back I think on the 22nd it was December I think 22nd back in 2022 and the
00:56500th
00:57one I managed to record was last Saturday morning which was the 22nd of March so
01:02that's December 23, 24, 25 it's been about it's been three years and three months I think to get
01:10through 500 of them and today is now Tuesday and and since I stopped recording them hasn't stopped
01:17the hasn't stopped the dreams hasn't stopped the music coming through wherever it comes from the
01:22subconscious or if you're an imaginative musician the ether but anyway stop taping them that's done
01:33Carolyn can get a more solid night's sleep she probably be creeping up to the lounge or the toilet
01:38or the bedroom and trying to murmur into the camera from now on and so I thought I'd do another
01:45vlog just to mention that fact that that's done the plan had been when I some way underway once I
01:57was
01:57doing this and AI music software sites launched I started using those to convert versions of the songs
02:07that I dreamt up into actual songs just using AI I thought well I didn't really write them myself the
02:13subconscious did and AI music doesn't really write them the software programming does so I thought it was a nice
02:21compromise between two things not making any creative effort coming up with a result
02:29and I did 60 of those the first 60 and they were on they're still on YouTube and they were
02:34on Bandcamp but
02:35another thing that happened at the start this year was Bandcamp although they'd previously been fine with
02:44people uploading music that was wholly or partially AI generated and you could tag it as such they decided
02:52they were a bunch of hippies after all and they put this blog post out saying like oh we are
02:59really all about the
03:03the human touch man and the creative spirit and purity and blah blah blah blah blah so not only did
03:09they
03:11say we won't have any more music submitted featuring AI they have just been taking down accounts which have
03:25featured AI on their music and they've also been encouraging listeners to get in touch
03:32users of Bandcamp to say I think this I think this user is using AI and then get the cello
03:37shut down which
03:38seemed quite a heavy-handed sort of way of policing things when they could just have
03:43improved their tagging system and only taking down channels if people were abusing that but there you go
03:49so yeah all that I've removed all of the music that I had used AI on from Bandcamp so if
03:56you go on my
03:56Bandcamp now you just get the usual stuff of field recordings or acapella stuff or bashing around on
04:06the battery-powered Casio or knocking objects together in the lounge you know basic stuff but like I say it's
04:15still on YouTube that has meant that I've not bothered for a few months to use Suno to make any
04:24more of the
04:25songs that I dreamt up into pieces of music and if I do start up again because in theory there's
04:32440
04:34dreamt up songs that I haven't done then they will obviously they will be on my Suno account and I
04:42can
04:43I can obviously just upload them straight to YouTube as well YouTube has what Bandcamp I feel should
04:52have had which is a very clear tagging system for identifying musical visuals that are AI enhanced
05:00and it you know if you put up a piece of music or a piece of footage on YouTube that
05:03you've used AI in
05:06you tag it and it has a message on the video or below you know it's it's very clear I
05:13understand
05:16if you have followed the music industry news over the last year or so apart from some artists being
05:24unhappy with AI and some aren't that there's been a lot of cases and this is this is I can
05:32see why this is
05:32bandcamp have done what they've done but there's been a lot of cases where people have
05:39attempted to use AI to convince people that the artists they've credited these AI tracks to are
05:48living and breathing human artists in the real world and sort of passing off basically this is
05:58particularly affected Spotify I think there's been a lot of stuff going on Spotify and people have
06:09believed that say a particular singer or a particular band has been a real artist and they've been generating
06:19enough streams to sort of start hitting sort of various charts around the world and then there's been
06:26investigations and the tracks have been taken down there so people have felt um shortchanged by that
06:36so that's another reason that uh the tide at the moment has turned against um AI assisted or generated music
06:47um but at the same time I think the CEO of Suno is striking a deal with maybe the Waters
06:52group
06:52um to use to pay and use artists from the Warner's catalogue to um to feed into AI software so
07:07that
07:08if for instance you do if for instance a person goes onto Suno and decides to create create a punk
07:15rock song
07:15and remember a lot of people just use this to like make a song for their mum or dad or
07:19whatever um then the
07:22software software when it goes into its database and searches for punk rock songs in theory the
07:30the music it would be searching would be music from say the Warner's group and those artists would have
07:36been paid for their music to be demonstrating what punk rock music is to Suno's software if that makes sense
07:49the other aspect of doing recording all the songs in my head just on my phone in the first place
07:58was
07:59when i uploaded them to youtube if i could remember the context of the dreams i was having that night
08:06um not just the dream that the song particular songs in all birds of out for spring um but anything
08:11i could
08:12remember from that that night's dreams i would um type those into the description box on youtube um so
08:22that's also meant that at some point i could publish online um a dream diary for that particular
08:30three month three year three month period 22 to 236 um with give or take probably about 500 dreams
08:39um i've said before here if i do that it will be called the 500 dream diary because i always
08:44liked that
08:46bbc promo photo of patrick troughton as doctor who sitting in the tardis with his 500 year diary
08:55um you might have seen it you might not but yes so i liked the idea of a 500 dream
08:59diary that makes sense
09:01doesn't it yeah um so that might happen it might not um it would probably need uh it would certainly
09:10need editing or embellishing um that we'll see might do that might not um was there anything else on that
09:21subject i don't think there is i just wanted to get this uh vlog out of the way tomorrow i've
09:29done it
09:29um i thought suitably as all the music was recorded from my dreams on my phone when i woke up
09:37that i
09:37would do this early in the morning before i'd uh really had my breakfast or uh had a bath or
09:44anything
09:44hence slightly more bed head hair than usual but it's not dissimilar to what i normally look like um
09:51um yeah so um that's been fun uh although in theory again
10:02if you went on to the relevant uh dreamt up songs videos on this channel or look to the playlist
10:08of
10:08them and they're sort of you know they're only like 10 20 seconds long murmur murmur murmur um
10:15you could also turn them into a song if you wished using your own creative skills or your favorite bit
10:23software um because why not like i say i didn't write them they just came through came through the
10:29subconscious came through the atmosphere they're out there um and usually only a line or two or three
10:36or four lines long but you might be able to turn something turn them into something should you wish um
10:41in
10:41which case i'd certainly like it if you um use the uh contact email on this channel so let me
10:47know
10:47that you've done that uh but that'd be interesting or you can yeah cover one if you want find one
10:52youtube
10:52do a cover version again let us know doesn't matter it really doesn't matter um
11:00that's all for now there'll be a vlog again at some point in the future when i feel like uh
11:06talking to the camera about something musical maybe and now i'm going to lean over the top
11:13and try and press stop without knocking the camera on the floor bye bye
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