How it Works
You are in control...
Liptikl lets your computer create lyric ideas that are inspired by seed words and phrases that you give it.
Your job is to use the Liptikl user interface to guide Liptikl to finding interesting combinations of words which you can then use in real-world lyrics or poems.
When you ask Liptikl to generate a verse, Liptikl takes your inputs, and combines them according to its internal rule-base of how lyrics work. The resultant lyric can then be modified by you, tweaked and regenerated in whole or part.
You can use Liptikl to build-up entire generative lyrics, or simply as an idea generator when you get stuck. Use it to combine ideas from previous works; see what you can come-up with!
... but you can learn to delegate
There are many internal rules used to create lyrics within liptikl. When the Liptikl lyric engine is figuring-out what to do, it combines all these rules together in combination with your source material, and respects them as best it can, but ultimately Liptikl makes its own choice as to exactly what to do. In other words, you can give the engine brain lots of guidance, but ultimately (like a child) you let Liptikl makes the final, detailed decisions as to what to do.
The reason this all works, is that at its heart, the Liptikl lyric engine uses random events in combination with a powerful set of rules. How you interpret what you read is filtered through your own internal knowledge of language. This combination of chance and logic is what allows Liptikl to keep coming-up with ideas that are fresh, interesting and unpredictable.
One of the things that a first user of Liptikl might find, is that delegating responsibility to a lyric engine feels like a weird thing to do!
However, give this a little time. Many, many users of our generative software have found that this process of learning to sit-back and delegate responsibility for small details to a generative engine is extremely liberating. You instead start to focus on other things, like tweaking the words used to generate the lyrics, trying different inputs maybe from the built-in thesaurus searching, or just sitting back and being entertained or baffled by what Liptikl creates, waiting for nuggets of beautiful ideas to appear when you least expect them. Yes, you can focus on details in Liptikl, but you can also take more of a view of a gardener's view to creating lyrics: casting word seeds on the ground, and selecting those ideas which blossom and discarding those that don't appeal.
