A project for an animated biopic about Edith Piaf, a monument to French song, is being developed using artificial intelligence, Warner Music and the artist’s rights holders announced Tuesday.
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There is no release date planned for this work, called “Edith.” The project is currently “in the final stages of development” and is based on some images produced for internal use, people close to Warner Music France told AFP.
The announcement of this “innovative and revolutionary technological project that uses AI to restore one’s voice and image,” as we can read in a press release, comes at a time when, in 2023, the interpreter of “No, that I don’t “disappeared for the 60th time, I don’t regret anything”.
Following the recent wild use of AI in music by amateurs – for example, a duet using the voices of Drake and The Weeknd without their consent – the process reached a new stage with the release of a new official Beatles track in early November.
“Now and Then” grew out of a demo that John Lennon recorded in his New York apartment in the late 1970s. After his murder in 1980, his widow Yoko Ono handed over the band, voice and piano, to the other members of the group in 1994.
AI technologies recently made it possible to isolate Lennon’s voice and mix it with recordings of other musicians, including George Harrison before his death in 2001. The song was recorded by the two surviving members Paul McCartney (81) and Ringo Starr (83). completed and published.
For “Edith,” AI technology “trained on hundreds of singing clips and images, some of which are more than 80 years old, will bring Piaf’s distinctive voice and image to life to convey the “authenticity and emotional impact of his story “to reinforce. The press release explains further. “Recordings of Edith Piaf’s greatest songs will of course be used in their original versions.”
This 90-minute film, “set in Paris and New York between the 1920s and 1960s,” will be “told in the voice of Piaf and reveal previously unknown aspects of his life,” this text further specifies.