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.