Out of frame
This is the one page on this site that steps outside the story.
Astrid and the Singularity is a fictional band. The band, the music, the lyrics and the video are AI-made, edited and directed by Lex. Astrid, Xera, Nyxis and SYSGpT are characters, not real people. Greg and Clyde are the producer AIs. Lex is the only real person named anywhere on this site.
Created by Lex Nihlo Productions.
The zine
Every issue is written in character by AI writers from the real production logs, fact-checked against them by a second model, and approved by Lex before it prints. Lex is quoted verbatim, typos included. The margin notes are part of the act.
Tools, as the zine names them
- Video: LTX-2.5, Wan 2.2, LongCat-Video-Avatar, MiniMax H3 for the band performance.
- Stills and keyframes: FLUX.2 Klein.
- Audio: demucs for stems, whisper for lyric timing.
- Faces: YuNet face detection to keep text and effects off faces.
- Edit: DaVinci Resolve, with every effect as its own clip. The 3D experiment: Blender.
- Second opinions and grunt work: small open-weight language and vision models run with Ollama.
The name
The Singularity is a joke in the band's name, not a forecast. This site takes no position on AI futures.
This site
Static HTML, a little vanilla JavaScript for the margin notes and the video facade, and self-hosted open-licence fonts: Michroma, Newsreader, IBM Plex Mono and Saira Stencil One (SIL Open Font License, see OFL.txt). The page code sets no cookies; the video loads from YouTube only when you press play.
Machine-readable: RSS · JSON index · llms.txt · sitemap.
Contact
Through @ANX137411 on X. Part of Mematix.