Krach is an AI tool that makes voice playable like a synthesizer. It is able to change its speed and pitch, glitch its enunciation and even alter intonation and emotional resonance.
Anarchic Artificial Intelligence (AAI) was the initial project from which krach emerged.
Watch the video
to see how it all began!
Why the term “krach”? Inspired by a quote from Alexander Hacke, Einstürzende Neubauten, about the term “Krach” in January 2016: “For me, Krach is the sum of all possibilities, of all frequencies. Just as white noise contains all frequencies, just as white light contains all colors, Krach contains all possible melodies, all possible harmonies.”
Mouse on Mars
AAI - Anarchic Artificial Intelligence
Krach.ai arose from our collaboration with electronic musicians Mouse on Mars and brought up among others the album AAI released this Feb. 26th!
Portrait xo
AI for self-reflective co-creation experiment
Portrait xo is an artist creating hybrid works between sound, technology and new media using krach.ai for the AI for self-reflective co-creation experiment.
Anina Rubin
Landalive
Landalive – Lost Incarnations, AI Voices & An Angel is a spatial audio short film about a world in which memories don't exist. The protagonists are part of an entire ship's crew that tries to escape the ensnarement of that planet; Yet it allures them over and over again. Eventually, the everlasting artificial neural network neuron Sir Neuron 1068 guides them into a space where all memories come back.
Photo by Marie Capesius
Marcin Pietruszewski
Synthetic Pulsar
Synthetic Pulsar by Marcin Pietruszewski probes the synthetic potential of the pulsar as an integrative object functioning across and within disciplines of astrophysics, technology of sound, and computational speech design.
Silver Sky is a glittering and evocative song with a twist. Set in a feral city, it's about light pollution, and features sparkling synths, crystals and AI voices. Krach was trained on Kat’s voice, giving the Ferals an otherworldly ‘AI Kat’, acting alternately as instigator and truth-teller.
Released by UK label Reckless Yes, it’s the first single from the band’s upcoming album Truth Is The New Gold.
Photo by Keira Anee
SILVER SKY
krach.ai uses the versatile facets of voice to allow a step into latent space for various people. It makes your own individual speech explorable and playable. We’re thrilled that it has already served as a tool for several artists. Would you like to collaborate?
krach.ai was created and is further developed by Birds on Mars - a Berlin based company working in AI consulting and creation. Get to know Birds!
Experience Krach
Thank you for the great interest so far! We have come to the end of our first friendly user period, as we are working on the next version of Krach.
Stay tuned and sign up for our newsletter to get a notification when we’ll start the second friendly user mode.