Sonny Champagne and the BillionAIres is a music project centered on documenting and amplifying the environmental rollbacks and irreparable harms being done on the American people through song. Executive Orders since the 47th president’s inauguration in January 2025 have rolled back significant environmental protections. The project aims to write a song for each executive order harming the environment.
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Grimes AI voice sings Phoebe Bridgers’ “Kyoto”
In the spring of 2022, students in my Audio Recording Techniques III course at the University of Oregon recreated Phoebe Bridger’s “Kyoto” from her 2020 album, Punisher, from the ground up. I used our 2022 class song as the foundation for Cyberduck AI’s challenge to use Grimes’ AI voice in a creative context. I uploaded our original vocal into Cyberduck’s web interface to create Grimes’ vocal track. I had to do this in chunks due to size/length limits.
I then remixed our 2022 Phoebe Bridgers’ “Kyoto” cover with AI Grimes’ singing. You can listen below
or at https://soundcloud.com/jpbellona/phoebe-bridgers-kyoto-cover-with-ai-grimes
Grimes AI courtesy of app.uberduck.ai/grimes
Phoebe Bridgers’ “Kyoto” (2020). Purchase Phoebe’s original version on Bandcamp.