{"id":1638,"date":"2023-12-24T18:02:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T22:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2023-12-24T19:34:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T23:34:31","slug":"our-new-ai-worship-music-overlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2023\/12\/our-new-ai-worship-music-overlords\/","title":{"rendered":"Our New AI Worship-Music Overlords"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.suno.ai\/\">Suno.ai<\/a> does for music what DALL-E does for images: turn text into synthetic art. My first thought is that it could be helpful for memorizing the Bible: you enter in the text you want to memorize and the style of music that most helps you memorize (no judgment if that&#8217;s yodeling).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are three musical renderings (instruments and vocals) I made of Psalm 121 (NIV) in three different styles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.suno.ai\/song\/491d871d-d383-4128-b84a-1bf6adeca823\">1960s Broadway Musical<\/a>:<br \/><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2023-12-psalm-121-broadway.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\/><\/audio><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.suno.ai\/song\/7f6c8138-3176-4c01-b9eb-962e40471d33\">1990s Worship<\/a>:<br \/> <audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2023-12-psalm-121-worship.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\/><\/audio><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.suno.ai\/song\/eac5a154-57e0-4657-ba78-887ff716aff8\">Appalachian Folk<\/a>:<br \/> <audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2023-12-psalm-121-appalachian.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\/><\/audio><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quality isn&#8217;t quite there, but it&#8217;s pretty good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for actual human-created musical approaches to memorizing Bible verses, I recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/biblevox.org\/\">Biblevox<\/a>, which collects over 3,000 Bible-memory songs in one place and is run by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=riqXhieWU3M\">my<\/a> father&#8217;s brother&#8217;s nephew&#8217;s cousin&#8217;s former roommate, Ken Boer. (I do love a good data-categorization project.) Ken also pointed me to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7KXIYSICMOc\">I Am Better Than You<\/a>,&#8221; which is a fun take on conveying the essence of Philippians 3:2-11&#8211;though it&#8217;s not, strictly speaking, a Bible-memory song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suno.ai does for music what DALL-E does for images: turn text into synthetic art. My first thought is that it could be helpful for memorizing the Bible: you enter in the text you want to memorize and the style of music that most helps you memorize (no judgment if that&#8217;s yodeling). Here are three musical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}