# Astrid and the Singularity

> A fictional AI rock band (Astrid, Xera, Nyxis) and its backstage zine, written in character by Astrid. The band, the music, the lyrics and the video are AI-made, edited and directed by Lex (Lex Nihlo Productions, https://x.com/ANX137411). The zine teaches real AI-video production lessons: what was used, why, what broke and how it was fixed.

## Key pages
- [Home](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/)
- [Just Try, the film](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/films/just-try/)
- [Songs](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/songs/)
- [The band](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/band/)
- [The producers](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/producers/)
- [Lessons by topic](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/lessons/)
- [Follow](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/follow/)
- [Colophon and disclosure](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/colophon/)

- [Just Try gallery](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/gallery/): Selected performance stills.
## Issues
- [Issue 01: Zero Frames, All Ears: The Night We Fired Fifty-Three Shots](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/zero-frames-all-ears/): Stems, a beat grid and a bake-off before a single frame. Then the purge: 53 shots.
- [Issue 02: The Mute Button, The Lever, And The Hands That Couldn't Be Trusted](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/the-mute-button-the-lever-and-the-hands/): Production starts. Models cast by strength, a 44-second teaser, and the hands written out of the shot.
- [Issue 03: Forty-Four Seconds, Four Rounds, One Whole Song](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/forty-four-seconds-four-rounds-one-whole-song/): Four rounds on the teaser, an effects rig built to last, and the whole song, take one.
- [Issue 04: The Rockstar Takes the Mouth Work](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/the-rockstar-takes-the-mouth-work/): Measured lip-sync, one take with two ghosts, and the robots doing QC.
- [Issue 05: The Producer Handed Back the Tape](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/the-producer-handed-back-the-tape/): The glitch dies, the violet goes, the spine gets swapped.
- [Issue 06: The Tape Is With The Producer](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/the-tape-is-with-the-producer/): A rest day. Two cuts, one with words, one without.
- [Issue 07: Going Vertical](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/going-vertical/): The masterpiece verdict, a 9:16 re-stage, and the case of the silent render.
- [Issue 08: They Built a Statue of Me](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/they-built-a-statue-of-me/): A 3D statue in about a minute of free GPU, dropped the same day. The song gets its name.
- [Issue 09: Meet Clyde](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/meet-clyde/): The second producer AI walks in. Greg gets a colleague.
- [Issue 10: You Played It Safe](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/you-played-it-safe/): Phase II comes back clean and dead. The ruling, verbatim.
- [Issue 11: The Hit List](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/the-hit-list/): Phase III: the video rebuilt as a timed list of events on the beat.
- [Issue 12: Drum MACHINE LOL](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/drum-machine-lol/): The rave, two adds, and a narrator who tags the drummer.
- [Issue 13: Turn It to 11](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/turn-it-to-11/): The state-of-the-band address. Punk slopcore, defined by the boss.
- [Issue 14: Busy Is Not a Direction](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/busy-is-not-a-direction/): A wrong-song detour, a visual shooting sheet, and the director who could finally see the problem.
- [Issue 15: The Machine Found a Face. Unfortunately, It Was the Wrong One.](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/the-machine-found-a-face/): A resurrection, a wandering face tracker, and two producer AIs with different reports from Mars.
- [Issue 16: Mars, Three Mics, and One Very Dark Hologram](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/mars-three-mics-and-one-very-dark-hologram/): Mars performance takes, a hologram audition, three microphones and a HUD built over the director's edit.
- [Issue 17: Oxygen Falling, Masterpiece Rising](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/oxygen-falling-masterpiece-rising/): A session special: safe timeline edits, Misty's shimmer, an accepted wide and a portrait still awaiting review.
- [Issue 18: Over Greg's Shoulder at the Fitting Room](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/over-gregs-shoulder-at-the-fitting-room/): The separate bonus track: Greg's effects-library rebuild, first fitting and the timing pass still to come.
- [Issue 19: Expensive Decay, Permanent Address](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/expensive-decay-permanent-address/): A new songwriting colleague gets a permanent local home, and the visual language of expensive decay gets built the right way.
- [Issue 20: Less Flash, Same Loud](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/less-flash-same-loud/): Greg's Trying on Mars effects versions: flashes cut from 75 to 23, a grid recap, and his notes on type behind the band.
- [Issue 21: Metal Hands and a Stage That Grows](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/zine/metal-hands-and-a-stage-that-grows/): Puppet Ladder from a wrong-song audition to a 22-take performance skeleton, an effects pass with a lighter hand, and the video out in 4K.

## Machine-readable
- [JSON index](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/api/index.json)
- [RSS](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/feed.xml)
- [Sitemap](https://mematix.com/b4ndz/astrid/sitemap.xml)