What a Beautiful Day!

What a Beautiful Day! is a clarinet composition paired with a video generated using Stable Diffusion v0.5, exploring the interplay between music, narrative, and AI-driven imagery.

Year: 2024

Role: AI Visual Artist & Composer

Type of Project: Audiovisual Composition

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Charlotte Ke used Stable Diffusion and real-time visual syncing to align the imagery with the music’s rhythm.

In What a Beautiful Day, Charlotte merges music and generative AI visuals to explore the humor and wonder found in everyday life. The piece follows a man whose ordinary routine transforms into a surreal adventure on meeting giant feet, yellow ducks, and a mysterious woman in a red dress. Through vivid, dreamlike imagery and playful sound design, Charlotte invites viewers to experience a world where the mundane turns magical. The accompanying composition, created during her studies at Juilliard’s Composition Extension Program, weaves together whimsy and rhythm to heighten the emotional resonance of the visual narrative. Together, the music and visuals create an immersive, lighthearted reflection on imagination and chance encounters.

To create the video, Charlotte

• Mapped time frames in the composition to specific visual events for each melody line.

• Developed detailed textual prompts for the AI, including elements like “Van Gogh painting style,” “lady in a red dress,” and “two hands opening an empty wallet”, to ensure vivid, contextually accurate imagery.

• Adjusted zoom levels, angles, and frame composition for each generated image to create fluid motion.

• Processed the prompts to generate 1,300 frames, then rendered the animation at 12 frames per second, synchronizing precisely with the 1:45-minute composition based on beats.

This project demonstrates creative integration of AI-generated visuals with live-composed music, emphasizing storytelling, precise timing, and detailed prompt engineering to translate narrative and musical ideas into a coherent audiovisual experience.