Flamingos of War
Sonic Storytelling. Ep_02: Flamingos of War
This piece started with real wings beating inside a massive aviary, and turned into something far stranger. A sound that blurs instinct, tension, and dream-state perception.
We warped the original field recording, bending pitch and speed until the feathers became spectral: an ambience alive, dislocated, almost otherworldly.
Bobelgom: “I built these images while listening to the track, letting its tension sit with the news I kept hearing: conflict, escalation, a future that feels unstable. That mood guided everything: forms that hover between beauty and threat, movement and paralysis. AI became a tool to shape that unease into something visual.”
Using AI as his primary tool, he steered the system through a series of prompts (to be added once he shares them) to generate forms that feel alive yet displaced—creatures caught between beauty and threat, motion and paralysis. The collaboration grew from this shared territory: a place where sound pressures image, and image bends back, refracting the emotional weight of the times.
AI Prompt Progression
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Flock of flamingos in shallow reflective water. Dystopian ruins in the distance. Soft fog. Vaporwave pink, cyan, purple. Wide, cinematic, photorealistic.
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Close-up of the flock. Subtle metallic seams beneath feathers. Neon ambient glow. Surreal calm through a vaporwave lens.
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Mid-transformation: feathers parting, mechanical plates emerging, faint vents breathing. Silhouettes elongating. Vaporwave haze.
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Hybrid flock: half-organic flamingos circling, half shifting into weapon-like forms. Low-angle shot. Dystopian skyline.
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Rocket-flamingos launching—sleek missile bodies fused with flamingo necks. Contrails cutting through neon sky.
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Aerial view: rockets streak upward, organic flamingos weaving below. Neon clouds. The ruined city beneath.
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Final frame: rocket silhouettes fading into the pink–cyan horizon. A few lone flamingos circling in quiet melancholy.
Credits:
Visuals: Bobelgom
Sound: Superquiet
