From Sound to Sight: Towards AI-authored Music Videos

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00029v1
• Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:54:53 GMT
• Title: From Sound to Sight: Towards AI-authored Music Videos
• Authors: Leo Vitasovic, Stella Graßhof, Agnes Mercedes Kloft, Ville V. Lehtola, Martin Cunneen, Justyna Starostka, Glenn McGarry, Kun Li, Sami S. Brandt,
• Abstract summary: We propose two novel pipelines for automatically generating music videos from any user-specified, vocal or instrumental song.<n>Inspired by the manual of music video producers, we experiment on how well latent feature-based techniques can analyse audio.<n>Next, we employ a generative model to produce the corresponding video clips.
• Score: 6.8291397456847625
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Conventional music visualisation systems rely on handcrafted ad hoc transformations of shapes and colours that offer only limited expressiveness. We propose two novel pipelines for automatically generating music videos from any user-specified, vocal or instrumental song using off-the-shelf deep learning models. Inspired by the manual workflows of music video producers, we experiment on how well latent feature-based techniques can analyse audio to detect musical qualities, such as emotional cues and instrumental patterns, and distil them into textual scene descriptions using a language model. Next, we employ a generative model to produce the corresponding video clips. To assess the generated videos, we identify several critical aspects and design and conduct a preliminary user evaluation that demonstrates storytelling potential, visual coherency and emotional alignment with the music. Our findings underscore the potential of latent feature techniques and deep generative models to expand music visualisation beyond traditional approaches.

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