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Area Man Composes Ode To Umatilla With Artifical Intelligence

    Combining a musical flair with AI technology, area resident Butch Dains is making a name for himself.  The creator of a number of tunes, Dains’ latest song is a tribute to the town of Umatilla.
    “Our Little Ole Town Umatilla” is just over two minutes of country melodies and original lyrics penned by Dains and generated via AI technology.  It contains lines honoring Umatilla’s ‘laid-back charm’ and notes the community’s energy, as ‘every night has a tone in Umatilla, under the southern moon.’
    “It’s fun,” Dains said this week while sharing the song and describing the process of creating it.
    “I run through them 10-20 times,” he says of creating songs by adding and subtracting sounds through AI.  It can take 12-14 hours to fine-tune a song, as Dains might select different instruments to add or subtract until the song has the sound he is looking for. The lyrics Dains writes are performed by an AI generated voice, in addition to the instrument parts.
    Other songs in Dains’ catalog include ‘My Train To Heaven,’ ‘Pickin Peaches’, and ‘Dockside Dancing’.  Dains’ songs are available for a listen on YouTube.  Simply go to YouTube and search Butch Dains for a list of songs.