Having made the TikTok Triptych I thought I should put them on TikTok. But that's complicated. They kept being removed for copyright reasons. I thought. Not because of the original owners of the copyright (who would be fully entitled) because of the tracks that I'd uploaded as Elite Panic. So I tried to solve that by becoming an 'artist' on TikTok.
Then I discovered that, also, you can't upload something longer than a minute. Which seemed like a problem for a bit and then I got rather excited about and I started making tiny, sub 1-minute dancey TikTok cut-ups, which are enormous fun to do. They're like densely packed seeds for longer tracks. All the elements happening at once rather than being smeared out over 5 minutes of build-ups and drops.
@3litepanic Mucking about with TikTok featuring @Joy Anonymous @Shrimp'N'bass @Arte do agora @Raaf Modular @Orpheus Sinfonia @thesoundplayground ♬ original sound - elitepanic
@3litepanic I’m enjoying this now. Apologies and thanks to @JACKO2 @Kawehi @Tess Outdoors @NTS Radio @alex williams ♬ original sound - elitepanic
@3litepanic Do you jnow this song? @Beatmaker Zulu Rocone @noodle's music Dailies @Garbean @musicianexp @thee.sample.chopper @krankbrother @𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙖 @Anthony Marinelli ♬ original sound - elitepanic
@3litepanic Here comes another one @Darte Millonz y Show Kong @zumsone @Magiehue @djhurleymkfm @praiseandharmony @ㅤdancingwiththelightsout ♬ original sound - elitepanic
@3litepanic big up @Michael Sebastian @oC breaks @Kim Ofstad @drop…this @robinson’s village ♬ original sound - elitepanic
@3litepanic New news @Tomás @Joy Anonymous @Simone V. Rorschach @Liv East #joyanonymous #massiveattack #liveast ♬ original sound - elitepanic
Then, since I love a short track, I thought I'd just upload these to spotify etc where tracks are getting shorter anyway. Maybe people will like them. And, since they already had videos I thought I'd found a handy shortcut so I signed up for Distrovid (which annoyingly took a year's worth of money before I really realised what I was doing). But then that said that I couldn't have logos/watermarks etc on my videos. You can see why.
So I tried to find somewhere that would remove the watermarks for me. There must be an AI thing that does that. So I banged some videos into HitPaw. Which sort of works, but with the minimal effort I was prepared to make mostly just makes things smeary and ends up erasing faces. Which feels like I'm making a statement of some sort, which I'm not.
So, I'm not quite sure what to do next. I'm going to try uploading one thing and see how it sounds of Spotify. I worry that they don't work as well without the video. I'll have to see.