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The Bootymachine - a protocol for sound, music, text and images getting ahead of AI scrapingOriginal collective from 2006 to 2009.click on the year to access work You can check the recent AI model based on the original online photographic data as scraped by AI-bots on BootyMachine.net 2007 AI-bot with the help of the Alias.Studio technology.  Check and use the open AI models from the base guitar bass of 2007, the phone voice model from Sibul in 2008 on IRCAM's / Dafne+ platform RAVE audio models. The 'Z Vinston 200701' protocol art model was awarded third price in IRCAM's RAVE Model Challenge March 2025 at Centre Pompidou. Creating a software-human network based protocol for art and sharing / remixing / transforming media online was at the core of this collective project. The resulting online sounds, texts, images and online shows lead to real-world performances but always were engineered for the upcoming more widespread AI scraping to reflect our ideas of that future to come. From my late nineties experiments in protocol art, the Bootymachine now provided the same novel creative framework that by design has pre-segmented data and functional entities, but in a fully collaborative multi-artist / multi-agent topographically dispersed machine. As of today, generative AI model creation is affordable to the masses and finally enables the central ambition of this long time project, a concrete example of how one can create art protocols that direct future training processes. The experience is also a natural follow-up from the Wild.ch collaborative platform, created for artists and founded in 1995, that lead to the music / video streaming social platform Poinch.net for Swiss musicians, founded in 1999, and then to the BolinOS medical oriented open-source platform for general media and scientific in production from 2003, where most of the data collecting and segmentation concepts for a distributed multi-user network were designed. Internet-based media has offered for years a creative set of tools beyond the traditional formalism of electronic publication, beyond the possibilities of print and hard copy, mixing diverse and apparently unrelated creative processes. This project is an attempt at formally creating the necessary informal set of media but also formalize their inter-relation by protocols, seemingly linking the random improvisational and the extreme number of variables included in the production process. It is a mix of sounds, pictures, digital and analog signal treatment, code, logs, banners of advertisement and technical standards. More on this to come... -- original introductory text -- A unique live looping online experiment in music composition featuring a bass (Z), and a guitar (Vinston). More than ten years ago, Z had done the first one groove a day experimental composition podcast, today this goes one step further, for the fun of it. At a time where the internet and computers take more and more space in the music making process, wouldn't it be nice to bring back the real stuff without however completely negating these fantastic new tools? Every day of the year to come, Z will put down a groove using realtime effects, composed of three pileable bass lines, include a generic drum track and generic mastering using his computer, compile them into a four-track relatively systematic composition (the bass-o-matic) that will be published on the Internet as a podcast (RSS, as for the 1996 zand-o-matic project) available openly for the world to listen. Each piece is related to a unique abstract piece of text and a unique picture. Each day Vinston will tie his moods to this and compose to grooves that work with Z's first line. Sometimes the publication process might be slow, but be patient, the groove is coming! And more is coming up! Cheers ;) The BootyMachine crew Click on the years below to access the experimental year (and listen or watch the hundreds of musics and videos associated - they were daily produced)! |