From Time To Time

Using randomness to generate song ideas is obviously nothing new. Even Mozart used chance methods in composition back in the 19th century--and we can presume the use of randomness could go back even tens of thousands of years. 

We like to believe that large language models can do this better but that's an illusion. Anyone can make up algorithms that ultimately are more interesting and fun.

Here I'm using my own algorithm for generating lyrics which involves using my own writing as the data set--in this case my diary entries for a particular day, in this case, March 16ths.

Original order of extracted lines with the same rhythms in the words:

It was designed
To map out the sequence of the on-screen portrayal of reality
Encourages discovery
To Garfield Park
The boundary of the tropical and a Chicago March
Critical mass and begins to decline
We are also suffused in the space of the past
From time to time
A generative treatment run against the loop
Sometimes I try
Cloud travel
The power of nature always wins
Settle the score

Extracted lines as a lyric:

Sometimes I try
To map out the sequence of the on-screen portrayal of reality
We are suffused in the space of the past
Cloud travel encourages discovery

A possible riff based on the music in the words: