Millions of streams.
A voice alone.

In the Past — Old School

Song 2 reached millions of plays in early streaming — before playlisting algorithms, before the infrastructure that now moves songs around the world. It found its audience on its own.

All of it made alone — composed, recorded, mixed, and produced without a label, a producer, or a co-writer, using a guitar and Pro Tools.

The Workflow Today — New School

Most AI music is slop — a prompt fed into a model, a result nobody asked for, dressed up as creativity. That's not this.

The melody comes from me. Developed in Logic Pro or arranged on an Ableton Push 2 — hummed out, played in, worked until it's mine. Vocal processing runs parallel compression and surgical EQ to hold presence without masking. The signal chain runs through a legacy Pro Tools 192 I/O for the converters — some hardware is worth keeping.

Only once the idea is locked does AI enter the picture. ACE Studio and Synthesizer V handle vocal synthesis when the arrangement calls for it. The machine executes. I direct. Everything runs local — MIDI-based arrangements, local processing — because copyright and creative control aren't negotiable.

There's also a restoration thread: using AI-driven stem separation to remaster older recordings — pulling them apart and rebuilding them with tools that didn't exist when they were first made.

The difference between human-led AI collaboration and AI-generated slop is the same as the difference between a composer and a jukebox. One has something to say. The other just fills silence.

I want to live on the edge where the new and old meet.