Everything Floats

## Inspiration and main Idea

I composed the music pretty intuitively, almost in one breath, and the lyrics came just as spontaneously. I wanted to reflect how difficult it can be to find your own path when everything around you is floating and spinning. After that, I kept shaping the track over and over, creating countless slightly different versions until the voice and overall atmosphere matched the feeling I had in my head. The video itself grew out of a more associative process. The first images revolved around themes of decay, weightlessness, and movement — floating objects, drifting shapes, chess pieces, hats suspended in mid-air. One of the earliest ideas was the woman surrounded by levitating chess pieces. I liked the thought of weaving this chessboard motif through the whole film, letting it quietly echo in different scenes. I also wanted to set up visual and narrative contrasts: weightlessness against heavy chains, collapsing buildings next to someone freeing their mind, dancers moving as if gravity had let go. Airplanes that can no longer fly, and then suddenly a king shooting into space on an old rocket straight out of a 1930s sci-fi film. To hold everything together, I added a small side story: a woman in chainmail, trapped in a crashed, abandoned car, who ultimately walks away from the thing that confines her. Inspiration

How we built it

First, I created the song and lyrics, then I build images that associatively addressed the theme. At the same time, I invented a fictional character, the AI musician “CAiPHA,” and used Gemini “Nano Banana” to create a wide variety of shots for the AI singer. I upscaled all the images and then generated the clips, some of which I synchronised with the song for the performance shots. I deliberately avoided a second upscaling of the clips so that the look would not become too smooth.

I did a first Edit on DaVinci Resolve, then a friend and Editor Sven Budelmann, polished the edit on Avid.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge was the lip sync, as I deliberately made the vocals in the song very rough and unclean. This made it difficult for the AI to separate the voice from the music, which in turn made it difficult for the lip sync tool to synchronize correctly. In some cases, I re-recorded the song myself with my own voice so that the programs could better identify the vocals and then replace the voice with the voice in the song.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I am proud of the unique and fascinating imagery that the music video transports us into. I am also pleased with the worlds and movements that flow into one another associatively. Ultimately, I am also proud of the music and the fictional character I have created.

What we learned

I have learned that music must meet certain requirements, such as clear lyrics, in order for AI tools to adapt the lip sync cleanly. I have also noticed that the tools work with very different frame rates, which makes it even more difficult.

What's next for Everything Floats

I have already generated new songs with the AI artist “CAiPHA” and can well imagine generating a second video for the AI musician.

Built With

• davinci
• elevenlabs
• freepik
• kling
• magnific
• midjourney
• resolve
• seadream
• veo3