2023 / AI Music Video - 2'57''
Ötme Bülbül Ötme (AI Music Video)
Ötme Bülbül Ötme is an AI music video for Doğukan Polat, exploring creation, nature, and self-awareness through electronic textures, nefes tradition, and Turkish musical references. Melike Kasaplar directed and edited the final arc; my role was the AI visual direction and synthesis process that gave the video its synthetic landscape, animal imagery, and shifting portrait material.
The project landed in early 2023, before commercial AI video tools existed in any usable form. Stable Diffusion 1.2 often produced muddy output; custom dataset training, including on the performer's face, became necessary to keep portraits anchored to the music rather than drifting into generic synthetic faces.
Roughly six months of synthesis and curation produced more than five thousand images and a thousand video generations. Recorded footage, stock material, and generated sequences were shaped into a single visual line. It was not one prompt, but building, selecting, and editing at scale before Melike's final cut.
At the time, fluid AI-driven motion in a music video was still rare. The piece sits among the first examples of that pipeline: long production, early tools, a result that reads as one continuous synthetic world rather than a collage of experiments.
Overview:
“Ötme Bülbül Ötme” is an AI music video exploring creation, nature, and self-awareness. The track blends electronic textures, nefes tradition, and Turkish musical references; the visual direction follows that mix with synthetic landscapes, animals, and shifting portrait material.
Process:
The music arrangement took shape over about a year with Doğukan Polat and Kerkayas. For the video, recorded footage, stock animal and landscape material, and generated sequences were edited into a single visual arc. The AI synthesis and video process took about six months, producing more than 5,000 images and 1,000 video generations along the way.
Techniques Used:
Stable Diffusion, image interpolation, custom dataset work, and compositing were used to keep the generated material coherent across the video. The process was less about a single prompt and more about building, selecting, and editing enough material for the images to follow the music.
The model was also trained on Doğukan Polat’s face, giving the portrait sequences a clearer connection to the performer and helping the synthetic imagery stay anchored to the song.
Credits
Lyrics: Pir Sultan Abdal
Arranger: Kerkayas, Doğukan Polat
Vocal: Doğukan Polat
Mixing / Mastering: Can Turgay
Music Production: Olaki Sound
Director: Melike Kasaplar
Editing: Melike Kasaplar
Ai Video: Çağatay Güçlü @defektu
Cover Design: Eren Dedeleroğlu
Social Media Consultant: Yalım Defne Yeşilova
