Lysterfield Lake. Machine learning, art, accelerometers… | by Charlie Gleason | superhighfives | Nov, 2023 | Medium

Lysterfield Lake is a song about a place outside Melbourne, Australia. It’s about the endless summers of your youth, and the tiny changes in you that you don’t even notice adding up. It’s also about memories, which, like polaroids, fade and change over time. I don’t remember exactly when I wrote it in much the same way I don’t remember exactly when I started this project, which has spanned the better part of a year and has all but consumed the most creative bits of my brain. I think it all began when I came across Replicate (and by extention, their open-source container for running machine learning models, Cog.) I was so inspired by their Explore page, and, if I’m being totally honest, I was worried about the cost of experimenting with AI. I’d set up a gaming PC in the weird limbo of the 2020 lockdowns, and these tools made it effortless (and for the most part, free) to try, and test, and many, many times, fail. When I decided to release new music (it’s been seven years since the last

Lysterfield Lake is a song about a place outside Melbourne, Australia. It’s about the endless summers of your youth, and the tiny changes in you that you don’t even notice adding up. It’s also about memories, which, like polaroids, fade and change over time. I don’t remember exactly when I wrote it in much the same way I don’t remember exactly when I started this project, which has spanned the better part of a year and has all but consumed the most creative bits of my brain. I think it all began when I came across Replicate (and by extention, their open-source container for running machine lea