Demos & Memos: Life’s Lyre

Saturday, March 21st, 10:04 in the morning.So I realized that my previous entry into the diary was a mixture of a dream retelling and me giving a draft to a song.I want to separate those.So if you’ve already listened to or read the full last episode, you don’t need to go through this one.Drafting the SoundYesterday morning, a draft to a song came to me.It’s a drill-type song, and the beat has been generated by me using the app Suno.ai, which is an AI model that can generate music.I’ve been trying to tame it using prompts—being specific in order to get it to create the type of hip-hop instrumental that I want for my purposes.And it’s coming along quite well.So the instrumental that you will hear at some point in the future, when this song is complete, will be AI-generated—but the lyrics are all mine.I’ll read them out a bit slower here than how they’ll actually be delivered in the song.Draft LyricsAnother verse.Let me lift this curse.Give birth.Let out monstrous creations to quench this thirst.F**k propriety.Push my stake in the ground in this hunt for satiety.F**k sobriety.We all censor ourselves in a straitjacket hell of what we call society.Civilization.Building mental prisons.Physical nations.Choking human relations.Path littered with fear and frustration.Ruined souls.Ruminating the fact that we’ve lost all control.All are scared.None are bold.Now we’re all molten in the same mold.Ain’t this s**t getting old?Aren’t you lot getting bored?Time to step to the granite.Just pull out that sword.Time to step to the plate.Put your palms in the fire.Fingers glowing with flames.Now you’re plucking Life’s Lyre.Building the TrackYeah, that’s how far I’ve come.But this is just one minute into the instrumental, which is four minutes long in total.So unless I add a chorus—performed by myself or maybe a friend—there’s quite a lot of space to fill out.Which I like.But it’s going to require a few iterations.I’ve already gone through many iterations for a previous song that I haven’t made public yet, so I should know the drill—pun intended.ClosingSo wish me luck with this creative endeavor.Wishing you all the best with following your own creative inspiration.And be mindful of your life energy, fam. Namaste. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit victorsalander.substack.com