A virtual band and physical record experiment with generative AI 2026 Who Are the Pests Project Statement
Who Are the Pests Project Statement A virtual band and physical record experiment with generative AI 上班的艺术家 (SHENGLIANG GUI) | 2026 Project overview Who Are the Pests (谁是害虫) is a music and visual art project developed around the virtual band 来福灵乐队. It comprises six principal tracks, one bonus track, a physical CD, a lyric booklet, and related visual designs. The band’s members, voices, and performance settings do not correspond to an ongoing band in the physical world. The experiences, judgments, and expressive intentions that inform the work arise from my own circumstances as its creator. Using generative artificial intelligence to produce musical and visual material, the project asks how artistic judgment operates when voices and performers can be generated. How can a creator organize experience, establish a position, and turn generated outputs into an album whose parts relate to one another? I explore these questions through the band’s conception, lyrics, sequencing, arrangement dir...
