Venice Beach Barbie
Virtual pop project @venicebeachbarbie explores identity with technology, sound, image, and online presence. Created with tools from Suno and Google, both based in Venice Beach, making the local creative-techn ecosystem interestingly authentic.
The music includes songs written over several years and reimagined through AI-assisted production, alongside new compositions developed specifically for the project.
Virtual avatar, derived from Melanie’s likeness, her fashion direction, and the emotional world of her songs. Layered over Venice Beach inspired environments, making place and identity part of the project’s visual language.
Obs Livestreams
Parts of the project are developed live, allowing audiences to witness the evolution in real time. One album within the Venice Beach Barbie project is produced through a fully live streamed creative process, incorporating real-time audience input into compositional and aesthetic decisions to explore questions of authorship, agency, and cultural influence in contemporary pop music production.
While technology plays a central role, Venice Beach Barbie remains, at its core, a music project using technology to explore performance, identity, and what it means to exist as an artist in an online world.
Local Posters
Interactive VR/AR Game
The Future of Venice Beach Barbie
Pitch Deck: venicebeachbarbie.pdf