Storytelling with Artificial Intelligence
March 17, 2026 20:20
I recently learned about a Google AI-based image-generation tool and started using it. What I discovered along the way was profound. I could create an image that looked real, but in no way was.
I understand the concepts that define the Gorham Street Pipe Organ Company and attempt to explain them using words. But I have no way of knowing if my readers and potential clients understand my thoughts the same way as I do. Look to the Continuo page of this site as an example.
In addition to its cost sustainability, I define the Gorham Street 43-note continuo design concept as one that will benefit an alternative-use art, atrium, performance, or liturgical space, one having the innate ability to invite a diverse set of musicians to participate in its use, and one providing a collaborative community of musicians with affordable access to the pipe organ they might not otherwise have.
But do my readers have a clear understanding of what I want to relate? What is chamber music?
I uploaded a photo I took of Five Watt Coffee on East Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis to Google Gemini. I then included a rendering I created in Autodesk Fusion of the 25-note organ project I introduced in an earlier entry. I asked Gemini to place the organ in Five Watt Coffee. It came up with the image here.
I then asked Gemini to include young adult musicians, a cellist, a violist, and a violinist.
I had Gemini place a multicultural group of vocalists near the organ case.
Consider my Gemini-altered Five Watt Coffee, depicted here as an alternative-use art space that can invite a diverse set of musicians to participate. This community of musicians might not otherwise have affordable access to the pipe organ.
None of the images I include here is real. All were created by Gemini. But if a picture is worth a thousand words, the images created by Gemini demonstrate the core concepts around which I define my 43-note continuo organ far better than words alone.
Posted March 17, 2026 20:20
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