AI gets to work on a lifelike new Bach portrait
Daily Comfort ZoneUsing the famous oil painting by E. G. Haussmann from 1748 as starting point, Iranian artist Hadi Karimi has created a high-resolution, photorealistic, 3D model of Bach’s face. During the post-production phase of the film, artificial intelligence was used to replace the actor’s face with this digital reconstruction of Bach’s own. This so-called “deepfake” now reveals Johann Sebastian Bach as a living, breathing human being.
Idea, concept and script: Vital Julian Frey, Bachwochen Thun.
Well-done by AI, especially if you consider that its intelligence is artificial and not real.
They should try to come up with a portrait of him after the birth of his 21st child.
Robbie Coltraine?
The original painting seems to depict Bach some time after little JC. He wasn’t counterpointing to his heart’s content at that stage.
I read that JS Bach had been posing for this portrait in a period with serious indigestion problems.
Any distinguished author looks in a way that somewhat resembles his work, sometimes a lot. And Bach in that video looks just like your neighbor would look in a wig.
Why not just hire someone who looked like him? I’m not convinced of the resemblance to the portrait, and they got his accent wrong too.
For many reasons, I have always imagined Bach to be a friendly, but firm, man, with a good sense of humor. Or else, how could he have endured a house full of so many children and squalling infants? Nor, had enough psychic energy
to make love as well as make music so well? Also, would he not have spoken with the softer inflections of that part of Germany he came from? I think his face might have had a friendlier overall affect.
After all, he didn’t charm his sponsors with music, alone. He had to be a good salesman for his ideas.
Gotta wonder what AI could do with a viola player….