ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Ravi Swami

SONG: Love Can Heal (Bright-Side Mix) FROM i/o

Video info

The video consists of images generated in Midjourney from 2023 to the present and is inspired by the third shot, which contrasts technology with nature. The narrative grew out of concerns about the use of AI and as a play on the term “drone” and incorporates  themes such how our reliance on technology can insulate us from nature and, more broadly, the idea that nature has a billion year head-start on human endeavours.

My natural inclination as a storyboard artist was to block out the narrative before attempting to visualise it using AI. However, in practice the random nature of AI made this difficult and so the challenge was to retain the core of the idea without trying to force it conform to specific shot requirements.

Song info:

Love Can Heal is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's album i/o, released on 1 December 2023. This is the Bright-Side Mix, by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Peter Gabriel

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

‘Love Can Heal was written around 2016 and I did start playing it midway through the Rock, Paper, Scissors tour and dedicated it to Jo Cox, who was the British MP brutally murdered by an extremist and someone that I had met at a leadership conference. I think the song fits right in to the themes of the album in the sense that i/o is about feeling and being connected to everything and in a way, the next evolution of being connected to things is a feeling of love for everything.’