CHIMPION

What remains of music when artificial intelligence creates it?

I'm experimenting with the technical possibilities of AI music. More importantly, I'm interested in what I can tell with it. Can an artificially generated voice express credible doubt? Can a digital character move us? What does authenticity mean when the voice, image and music all come from a machine?

Perfection doesn't create meaning. Chimpion tells his story.

He's loud, euphoric and sometimes almost uncomfortably self-confident. At the same time, he doubts himself, his origins and the world he's been thrown into. He wants to be seen — although he doesn't know how real he is.

Those contradictions are what make him interesting to me. A character gains depth through rough edges and questions without simple answers. Chimpion expresses his personality inside an AI world: between wild euphoria and deep uncertainty, megalomania and vulnerability.

Through his songs, I want to look at the current excitement around AI from a different angle. Chimpion is caught right in the middle of it.

Perhaps that's where his authenticity lies: in the doubts, hopes and contradictions that shape his story.

Chimpion in a city at night beneath green northern lights