Live performances will be held on Thursday May 9th from 4:00-5:30 PM in Oliver's (2C.1) as part of SPACE Week. After the performances, stick around for a ChatGPT jam session!
Use ChatGPT to write an entire song, in whatever style you choose. The goal is to record/perform a version of the song that sticks as closely as possible to what ChatGPT composes while still being a great song! You may need to “massage” the output to make the song work, but the prize will go to the song that deviates as little as possible from ChatGPT’s suggestions – the trick is to prompt it effectively and efficiently.
Listen to this example from the 2023 contest by Hanako Brierley
“Fast Food Dance”
Prompt: Write me a song in the style of Elliott Smith about McDonalds.
You can get ChatGPT to generate:
· Lyrics
· Chord changes
· Melodies/harmonies
· Beats
· Suggestions for instrumentation
· Ideas “in the style of .....”
· Etc.
ChatGPT is NOT capable of generating musical notation – but it CAN give you guitar “tabs”, so that is the easiest way to ask it to compose melodies.
Here is a link to an article discussing many of the ways you can harness ChatGPT to help write a song: https://www.audiocipher.com/post/chatgpt-music
How to participate:
Submissions should be recorded (audio and/or video) and submitted along with your complete chatlog (screenshots) so that the resulting song can be compared to ChatGPT’s suggestions. The songs and chatlog screenshots should be submitted using the form below by midnight, May 7th! This is easiest to do as a single compressed zip file.
Recorded song file too large to upload? Send to this email address: dawsonaicontests@gmail.com
Live performances will be on May 9th as part of SPACE Week in Oliver's (2C.1, 4:00 PM-5:30 PM). We will have a couple guitars and mics – any other instruments you’d have to bring yourselves! Prizes will be announced at the performance and there will be a ChatGPT jam session after the performances.
For any questions about the contest contact Robert Stephens: rstephens@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
