Tiny Desk AI office concert

The Tiny Desk stage is a small office corner turned into a live room: wooden shelves packed with records, books, plants and little trophies, warm lamps on every shelf, a cluttered desk with coffee mugs and a red keyboard, a drum kit squeezed into the corner and an old rug on the floor.

You stand at the front at your own vintage mic on a floor stand, framed from the waist up. Behind you a small band of made-up musicians plays along, slightly out of focus: keys at the desk, a saxophone and drums. They never sing, so the only voice is yours.

The whole clip is one continuous shot with no captions or logos. It looks like a set someone filmed between meetings.

This page loads Live soul, a beat made for this stage: Rhodes electric piano, a round walking bassline, brushed drums and a saxophone that answers each line, at about 95 BPM. You sing instead of rap, with long notes and a little grit.

You can swap it. Melodic gives a cleaner pop and R&B song, Boom bap turns the office into a nineties cypher and Trap makes it loud. The stage stays the same, so you can try one song in a few styles.

The vocals and the music are generated with the video. Kiravu never uses an existing song, recording or lyrics.

Tiny Desk sets usually have one singer out front, so this page starts in Solo mode: one selfie, you sing both verses.

Switch to Duo for a duet. Upload one selfie per person, or one photo of you both in Duo from one photo mode. Person 1 sings verse 1, person 2 sings verse 2 and you finish together in harmony. The band stays behind you either way.

Only upload photos of yourself or of people who agreed to it. Celebrities and public figures are not allowed.

The video is built from your photo, so a good photo makes a better performance.

• Face the camera. A clear, front-facing face gives the lip-sync what it needs.
• Get your shoulders in. You are framed from the waist up, so a chest-up or waist-up photo works best.
• Use soft, even light, near a window or a lamp.
• Skip sunglasses, hats that hide your eyes and heavy filters.
• Dress for the set. A sweater, a denim jacket or your work shirt fits the office-concert look.

The default is a 12-second song, vertical 9:16, at 720p on the Standard model, for 10 credits. You can pick 5, 8, 10, 12 or 15 seconds, a square or horizontal frame, and 1080p on the Pro and Flagship models. The credit cost shows before you tap render.

If a render fails, the credits come back automatically. Every finished video also goes through a lyric check: if the first take misses too many of your words, Kiravu re-renders it once for free.