Ep 42: Taryn Southern Lives in the Future
Taryn Southern teaches AI to sing, releases the first song on the blockchain, and talks about how to use VR for good.
Bio:
Taryn Southern is a digital artist and filmmaker. She is co-directing a documentary about the brain, and recently unveiled her AI/human collaborative album, I AM AI. As a YouTuber, she has produced more than 1000 videos and garnered more than half a billion views online.
Topics:
- Taryn's personal story:
- Growing up in Kansas
- Studying Ayahuasca among rainforest communities in Peru
- Working as an actress in LA, becoming a comedic YouTuber
- Creative pivots and losing your audience
- Hip-hop, EDM, and AI-based music
- Tools for making music with AI: (Amper, Aiva, Watson Beat, Google Magenta)
- Kevin Kelly on the tools to unlock future geniuses
- Creating a Song on the Blockchain
- Virtual Reality as Artform, VR for Healing
- How to create a VR music video
- What VR reveals about embodiment
- Doing good, VR, and biofeedback
- Social Media & Our Story-telling Imagination
- The movie theater as meditation
- Why dystopias are killing us, and our deep, practical need for hopeful stories
- What does it mean to be human?
- Freezing your stem cells
- Why would you want to live forever?
- How to keep going, when 90% of things you try will fail
Links & Resources:
- Taryn's website
- Life Support | 360° VR Music Video Composed By AI
- BREAK FREE Breaks into Radio—get it here! (video)
Pull-Quotes:
“We could create literally anything—and we've chosen to create this world.” <-- tweet this