AI Disclosure & Transparency Statement

Plain Statement

Blutmärchen is an AI-assisted music project.

The audio on every release is generated with the assistance of generative AI tools. On selected tracks, named human collaborators contribute real vocal or instrumental performances alongside the AI-rendered material; the resulting track is a hybrid AI / human-performance work, disclosed as such per-track.

The cover artwork on every release begins as AI-generated imagery and is then reworked intensively by the human author across Adobe Photoshop, Topaz, and Luminar into a finished piece of visual art.

This is disclosed openly on every release, on every page of the project's website, and in the metadata of every track.

What AI is, and is not, in this project

AI is treated as an instrument — a creative tool supporting persistent stylistic identity, depth, scope, and narrative consistency.

AI is not, and will never be:

• The author of the work.
• The source of artistic intent.
• A replacement for editorial judgment.
• A replacement for human collaborators where their craft is offered.
• A shortcut around the creative responsibility owed to the audience.

Every track and every image in the Blutmärchen universe is shaped by deliberate human creative direction. The mission, the editorial principle, the leitmotif system, the dual-vocal casting rules, the visual identity, the German quote anchors, the per-tale dramaturgy, the song structure, the lyrics, the prompts, and the post-production finishing of every cover are written, directed, edited, executed, and approved by a human author or, on collaborative tracks, by the project's editorial direction in concert with named human collaborators.

The AI serves the vision. The vision does not serve the AI.

What is human

The following are entirely human work and contain no AI generation:

• Project concept, mission, and editorial principle.
• Selection of source tales and adaptation choices.
• All lyrics (English and German).
• All German quote anchors and their placement.
• Song structure, leitmotif system, vocal casting decisions.
• All prompts directing audio and visual generation.
• Curation, selection, and rejection of generated outputs.
• Sequencing of the cycle and editorial framing of releases.
• All cover-artwork post-production: color grading, retouching, recomposition, hand-painted overlays, texture work, detail upscaling and refinement, atmospheric finishing, and typography integration — performed across Adobe Photoshop, Topaz, and Luminar.
• All real performances by named human collaborators — vocal, instrumental, choral — on collaborative tracks. These performances are recorded by the collaborator and integrated into the track under the project's editorial direction. Collaborators are credited by name in the track's metadata, on the cover-with-text variant, and in all release descriptions. See theCollaboration Charter for the rights structure governing these contributions.

What is AI-assisted

The following involve generative AI as a production tool:

Audio rendering

Vocal performances, instrumentation, orchestration, and mixing of recordings, generated from human-written prompts and human-written lyrics, then curated and arranged by a human author. On hybrid tracks, AI-rendered audio is layered with or replaced by named human performances per the editorial design of the individual track.

Visual rendering

Cover artwork begins as AI-generated imagery rendered from human-written prompts following a human-defined visual identity. Every release artwork is then reworked intensively by the human author across a three-tool finishing pipeline:

• Adobe Photoshop — color grading to the locked Blutmärchen palette, retouching for anatomical and compositional correctness, recomposition where needed, hand-painted overlays, texture work, layered detail painting, and integration of typography and identity marks.
• Topaz — detail enhancement, upscaling, and selective sharpening to the resolution required for print, vinyl, and large-format display.
• Luminar — atmospheric finishing, light shaping, and final color harmonization.

The final cover artwork is therefore a hybrid work: an AI-rendered base, brought to finish as a discrete piece of visual art by a human artist using professional post-production tools.

Drafting assistance

Language assistants are used as sparring partners during the writing of prompts, lyric drafts, and bible documents. Final wording is human-authored and human-approved.

Hybrid AI / human-performance tracks

A track is a hybrid AI / human-performance track if it contains any real performance recorded by a named human collaborator and integrated into the released audio.

For every hybrid track, the per-track disclosure must honestly report:

• Which elements are AI-rendered.
• Which elements are real human performances, and by whom.
• Where in the song structure the human performance appears (e.g. lead vocals on Chorus 2 and 3; full violin throughout; choir on the Hexenchor section).
• Any further human post-production applied to those performances.

The default presumption when reading a Blutmärchen track is that the audio is AI-rendered unless the per-track disclosure states otherwise. We never quietly upgrade a track's "humanness" without saying so; hidden human performance is as much a disclosure failure as hidden AI use, because the listener still does not know what they are hearing. Honesty cuts in both directions.

The covers as a parallel body of work

The visual cycle of Blutmärchen stands beside the musical cycle, not beneath it.

Every album cover and every individual song cover is treated as a finished piece of visual art in its own right — not as packaging for the audio, but as a companion artwork that carries the tale in image form, the way illustrated illuminations once accompanied the spoken manuscript. Each cover is composed, finished, and signed off as art on its own merits, judged by the same standards a painter would apply to a finished canvas.

This is why every release receives the three-image package: full cover with text, logo-on-black, textless artwork. The textless artwork in particular exists to be presented as a standalone piece — exhibitable, printable, and sharable as art independent of the music.

What will never be AI

The following are categorical exclusions:

• The mission of the project will never be AI-generated.
• The editorial principle and creative vision will never be delegated.
• No AI system will ever be credited as a co-author or co-artist.
• No real human collaborator will ever be replaced by AI on a track where their contribution has been accepted; their performance is the canonical performance for that track.
• No release will ever omit AI disclosure, regardless of platform rules or commercial pressure.
• No release will ever omit human-collaborator credits, regardless of platform rules or commercial pressure.
• No Blutmärchen audio or imagery will be released, sold, or licensed for use as training data for third-party AI models.

Why disclose

The mission of Blutmärchen is preservation and honesty — keeping the old tales alive and carrying their message to the children and youth of today. A project built on honesty about old stories cannot be dishonest about how it tells them.

Hidden AI use is a betrayal of the listener. Hidden human collaboration is equally a betrayal — both of the listener and of the human whose work goes unnamed. Disclosed practice in both directions is a craft choice the listener is free to accept or reject.

We choose disclosure because the audience deserves to choose, and because every named collaborator deserves to be named.

Standard disclosure lines

Copy-pasteable for streaming descriptions, video captions, social posts, and release notes.

Short form

AI-assisted music. AI-rendered, human-finished artwork.
Lyrics, prompts, and direction by a human author.
Named collaborators credited per track.
Full disclosure: https://www.blutmaerchen.lu/ai-disclosure.xhtml

Medium form

Blutmärchen is an AI-assisted music project. Lyrics, prompts,
direction, and editorial choices are human. Audio is rendered
with generative AI under human direction and curation; on
selected tracks, named human collaborators contribute real
performances, disclosed per track. Cover artworks begin as
AI-rendered imagery and are finished as standalone visual art
by the project's human author in Adobe Photoshop, Topaz, and
Luminar. Full disclosure and per-track breakdown at
https://www.blutmaerchen.lu/ai-disclosure.xhtml

Per-track disclosure template

Every per-track file carries the following footer, populated with the actual tools, intervention notes, and named collaborators for that track:

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
PER-TRACK AI DISCLOSURE
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Audio:          Generated with [Suno version X] from human-
                written prompt and human-written lyrics.
                Stitched from N passes per long-form
                workflow. Curated and approved by human
                author.

Human           (Omit if none.)
performances:    - [Name], [role] — [where in the song]
                 - [Name], [role] — [where in the song]
                Recorded by collaborator; integrated under
                editorial direction. Collaborator rights
                per Charter §5.

Artwork:        AI-rendered base from [generator + version]
                using human-written prompt. Finished as
                standalone visual art by human author in
                Adobe Photoshop, Topaz, and Luminar — color
                grading, retouching, recomposition,
                hand-painted overlays, detail enhancement,
                upscaling, atmospheric finishing, typography
                integration.

Lyrics:         Human-authored.
Prompts:        Human-authored.
Editorial:      Human-directed.