ALL PROJECTS / 2020

Infinite Bad Guy

Year: 2020

Client: YouTube Music / Google Creative Lab, New York, NY

Technology: Python, TensorFlow, audio/video feature extraction, beat tracking, cover-song alignment, large-scale YouTube dataset

Reference Links

Writeup on Medium

External Links

"Infinite Bad Guy" on Experiments with Google "Infinite Bad Guy" for Plan8 "Infinite Bad Guy" for The One Show "YouTube connects thousands of Billie Eilish covers into 'Infinite Bad Guy' music video" by Kyle Bradshaw for 9to5Google

Description

AI experiment for YouTube Music that aligned more than 15,000 Billie Eilish “Bad Guy” fan covers into an endlessly recombinable music video.

Built with Google Creative Lab and Plan8 to mark the song reaching one billion views, the project analyzed tempo, beat, vocals, and video categories so radically different covers could remain synchronized while viewers moved through ASL, metal, instrumental, and other clusters.