{"id":14779,"date":"2021-05-13T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=14779"},"modified":"2021-05-12T09:03:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:03:17","slug":"ml-midi-trippy-facial-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/13\/ml-midi-trippy-facial-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"ML + MIDI = trippy facial fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>&#8220;Hijacking Brains: The Why I&#8217;m Here Story&#8221;<\/em> &#x1f60c;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I wrote <em>many<\/em> years ago, it was the chance to work with alpha geeks that drew me to Adobe:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>When I first encountered the LiveMotion team, I heard that engineer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nart.org\/\">Chris Prosser<\/a>\u00a0had built himself a car MP3 player (this was a couple of years before the iPod). Evidently he\u2019d disassembled an old Pentium 90, stuck it in his trunk, connected it to the glovebox with some Ethernet cable, added a little LCD track readout, and written a Java Telnet app for synching the machine with his laptop. Okay, I thought, I don\u2019t want to do\u00a0<em>that<\/em>, but I\u2019d like to hijack the brains of someone who could.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Now my new teammate Cameron Smith has spent a weekend wiring MIDI hardware to StyleGAN to control facial synthesis &amp; modification:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LiveGAN: Hardware MIDI Controller for StyleGAN-1\/2\/ADA\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rzNjPPEUwmo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hijacking Brains: The Why I&#8217;m Here Story&#8221; &#x1f60c; As I wrote many years ago, it was the chance to work with alpha geeks that drew me to Adobe: When I first encountered the LiveMotion team, I heard that engineer\u00a0Chris Prosser\u00a0had built himself a car MP3 player (this was a couple of years before the iPod). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14792,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14779\/revisions\/14792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}