Some do not care for AI. I get that. Why I choose to write. I have no ability with a paintbrush or a guitar or fine stone. My words have been my strength forever. I don't need an AI to speak from my heart. I seek no connections for making this sole dream real for anything but myself. So I had to utilize tools to make these things happen. I do not use these tools for commercialization or finance. I don't use them to make the content, my voice is mine. Every song, title, image, lyric, concept, and theme came from months of journaling and experience. Most solo journaling, some with a self-hosted chatbot to limit impacts. I cannot sing the experience, but the tool can. So it has, and I make it available to you as the files themselves, rather than sending you to the machine. I own my heart and my words, but I give them freely to you. I ask that you only see these as an extension of my words.
For those who want the simple: I made it with raw notepad++ and privacy focused chatbots that do not impact the environment from datacenters, a majority utilizing local machine hardware. For more refined research, I used Leo AI, from Brave. The only major player was the use of Suno for making it into music and refining them, this is all due to personal hardware limitations. The songs were made under a paid subscription encompassing 2 actual months. I give you right to listen to them for yourself, but do not re-sell them. They are free for you, and should be free for all.
So what does this mean? I don't know. Everyone seems to care about something. I used a tool for its intended purpose: to turn my experience and words into songs. That's it. It's not making it for the sake of. If that's the "gray area" you're ok with, then great. If you absolutely must define your existence on the hatred or destruction of AI, great. I don't trust AGI either, and really think AI should have been maintained for only improvement of life, not an everyone needs to have a chatbot lifestyle. I can make that distinction. So can you.
The texts posted here have accompanying sonic resonance, processes of individuation and exploration of true self. These are tools for mananging the questions and intuitive nudges, developed for that and that alone. I'm not a musician, but I fed my heart, my words, my experiences, and my understanding into these songs. They are not for commercialization or anyone else in particular, they are for the heart. If it does with you, I invite you to resonate with me.
The first album is The Archive of Ghosts, a swancore project that explores the three initial aspects of the psyche. A process not unlike 12 step recovery, but focused on the ego, intuition, and the witness. Told in their dilaogue and acknowledgement of difference ending in a unity of understanding.
The second album is Smoke to Aurum to Nix, a multi-genre 10 track album that walks the process of individuation with some of my direct experience. This is by no means a true map for all, as I stagnated in areas and still do. But it has been necessary for me to maintain connection.