65-year-old Matsuo Kimiya, an AI artist, IT editor and musician, used AI technology to resurrect his wife Tori-chan, who had been dead for 11 years. He used Luma AI's Dream Machine to transform old photos and sound clips into touching dynamic videos, and combined them with AI music tools to compose songs to commemorate his late wife and express his deep love. This story shows the miracle of the intersection of technology and emotion, and also makes us think about how technology can help us transcend the limitations of life and death and continue love and memory.
ChinaZ.com reported this touching event, detailing how Mr. Matsuo used UTAU, Dream Machine, Suno and other AI tools to turn his longing for his wife into reality step by step, and finally completed this touching story. Deep memorial video. From restoring old photos to synthesizing songs to generating dynamic images, he used technology to weave a gentle and loving dream, allowing more people to feel the warmth and power of technology.
Webmaster's Home (ChinaZ.com) News on June 17: 65-year-old AI artist, IT editor and musician Matsuo Kimiya used technology to resurrect his wife Tori-chan (Kotori-chan) who had passed away for 11 years. He used Luma’s AI video Dream Machine to create a video that touched countless people.
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Kotori Jiang died of breast cancer in 2013. In order to commemorate her, Mr. Matsuo also started a project: re-arranging and recording her past songs and releasing them to the iTunes Store. But at that time, her condition was already very serious and her singing voice was unstable. So Matsuo used her singing voice to create a UTAU sound source, synthesize a new song, and then merge it with the original sound to achieve a complete effect.
UTAU is an open source sound synthesis software that is often used by Bilibili netizens to create ghost videos. Matsuo completed the first song using the UTAU sound source on September 1, 2023. In this way, he silently composed hundreds of songs in memory of Kotori-chan.
After entering the AI era, Matsuo's thoughts turned from invisible to tangible. He learned to try various AI technologies, used pixel and remini to restore old photos, used DID to make videos, and used AI music tools such as Stable Audio, Udio, and Suno to create. It wasn't until Luma's Dream Machine came online that he saw hope.
Matsuo said: "The purpose of using it is not for image production, but to animate still images and see how my wife, who died 11 years ago, moves." He used film photos from 1978 to 1987, through Dream Machine Generate dynamic videos. He constantly adjusts the character's demeanor, background and movements to build her in his memory with great anticipation.
He also used Dream Machine to generate multiple clips of Xiaoniao Jiang, used Suno to write a song, then used Logic Pro11's STEM Splitter to separate the vocals, and used Vocoflex to replace the voices with Xiaoniao Jiang's, creating a touching song. Deep MV.
Matsuo also used AI to extract and translate a letter written by Kotori-chan to him in 1984, which showed deep love. This video is a reply written by Matsuo using technology to his wife in 2024 to express his longing and love.
This is the story of an ordinary person using technology to create dreams. In his own way, he weaved a dream of tenderness and love for himself and his wife out of limited old photos and sound clips. He said: "Life is over, story is over (even if life ends, the story will continue)."
Love will transcend life and death. In the AI era, it will come to our dreams and sights with the most beautiful memories. This is a man who will always sing with his wife, and his story will be passed down forever.
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The story of Matsuo Kimiya is not only a touching chapter about longing and love, but also reflects how the advancement of science and technology provides people with new ways of expressing emotions. His creativity and persistence are worthy of our learning and admiration.