Might be another this weekend.   "Orchestral Classic Instrumental Rock"  this time. Got about 60 songs to sort thru and weed out the garbage.   Sort of like the instrumental interlude, but more orchestral. 

And to be honest, "Systematic Revolution" wont be for everyone.  if Bikini Kill is not on your short list, don't bother.  Short songs, angry girl screaming, noisy music. TBD, while similar, i think is more listenable for the non-rigrrl fan and has a couple of really good ones. ( like Razor Transmission. im really fond of that one )

So I listened to it. I'm curious about what your um... driver, inspiration... message is with your music? I mean - as an artist, what motivates you to create - and to create like this? I paint, draw, sketch and create digital art - and a lot of it is for my own pleasure - but I also tend to have a goal - but I might struggle with articulating it - so I understand and I'm not trying to put you on the spot... but if you can give me insight into your creative goals - I'd like to hear them. 

In my case, its simpler than you are thinking. No hidden messages or anything.

• An exercise in neat technology, since i am a techie ( and have been involved in AI for a long time.. with robotics ). This is both from a personal level, and to help out the community ( testing, bug reports, adding my own features, etc ). 
• i like niche music, and now that its a viable technology, its just a journey to make music i like and not have to only rely on the few bands still left standing for new stuff. You can tell from my 'sampler' lists, i am not mainstream. And related to another post, its not like i can make it myself "by hand" now, even if i had the energy to do it all. So this is a way out, so to speak. While i was mainly a guitarist, i do have access to nearly any instrument i would want to use. Being in a musical family its just a phone call away.. "hey, can i borrow that cello for an afternoon"

Sat Apr 18 2026 05:43:13 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

So I listened to it. I'm curious about what your um... driver, inspiration... message is with your music? I mean - as an artist, what motivates you to create - and to create like this? I paint, draw, sketch and create digital art - and a lot of it is for my own pleasure - but I also tend to have a goal - but I might struggle with articulating it - so I understand and I'm not trying to put you on the spot... but if you can give me insight into your creative goals - I'd like to hear them. 

 

Another thought.  If you wanted to dabble.. 

I know i mentioned it before, but i did post a simple interface to the cpp-ized version of acestep.  I know you have the hardware so it dont matter ( i do too ), but aside from the advantage of reduction in GPU ram needed is a lot faster.  The dude has done a lot of work on his web interface that didn't exist at first, but i still mostly use mine as its far simpler than his ( tho his is a a lot simpler than the stock one for the full engine ), and does 99% of what i want.  Instead of endless options, just a couple. 

I also did one for stable-diffusion.cpp   Same concept, they took the 'regular' stuff and converted to cpp to make it more efficient. That makes pictures and ( limited ) videos.   Same thing here, a couple of 3rd party interfaces, but mine is simple without the tons and tons of possible options in your face. ( even if you want to add new models while not supported inside the GUI, its just a quick edit. i tried to format the thing to make that easy to do. I dont change models often so didnt muck up the interface for it.    

Both are python, minimal libraries so should work anywhere. Copy the engine binaries over to the specified folders, done.  Both have links back to get the needed back-end engine binaries ( or how to compile them ). 

https://github.com/Nurb4000/acestep.cpp-simple-GUI   and   https://github.com/Nurb4000/StableDiffusion.CPP-GUI

Sat Apr 18 2026 05:43:13 UTCfrom ParanoidDelusions

So I listened to it. I'm curious about what your um... driver, inspiration... message is with your music? I mean - as an artist, what motivates you to create - and to create like this? I paint, draw, sketch and create digital art - and a lot of it is for my own pleasure - but I also tend to have a goal - but I might struggle with articulating it - so I understand and I'm not trying to put you on the spot... but if you can give me insight into your creative goals - I'd like to hear them. 

 

So, your second post lost me. I just couldn't gronk it. I know that term is loaded now - but I mean it in the sense before Musk appropriated the word for his Ai. Anyhow - Here are my thoughts - what I listened to sounded, to be honest, like "nu-metal" - but with a girl growling out the lyrics instead of some dude with a shaved head, a goatee and too much eyeliner. It wasn't... I dunno - I expected your music to be avant-garde electornica or new wave - something like Talking Heads, or REM. Instead, it was kind of Lincoln Park meets Disturbed. Which is *fine*... but it wasn't... I dunno. It had a very feminist vibe to it - or female empowered. And that is OK too. I love Joan Jetts, I love early Go Gos when they were doing hardcore punk - I like Souixse. I think girls can rock - and the track I listend to, was certianly a woman *rocking* and singing about things that were important to HER as a female.  
But it sounded professional and polished and ready to like it could be a strong touring band. It just wasn't as *weird* as I expected from you - to be fair. I expected something that really made me re-evaluate my tolerance for what I could consider music - from you. But it wasn't anything challenging in that sense. It had good riffs, good hooks, commercial lyrics and themes - but at a pro level. Like... You could produce for a mainstream band and turn out hits for them in the 90s, early 2000s. 

Do me a favor - look up "Father of Peace," don't just listen to them, watch their videos - because they're a very visual band. They're a 3 piece... Drummer, Lead Vocal/Guitar, and bassist. The lead is a Jewish guy with a crazy red Jewfro who looks like a cross between Sideshow Bob and a deranged Cro-Magnon. Their influences are pretty transparent - but - they also kind of rock. Enemy and Bluish are two tracks I'd like you to check out. They're one of the most interesting bands, to me, that I've seen in the last 4 or 5 years. I'd like to hear your take on them. 

I mean, do you understand? There have always been a bunch of studio bands that worked for NBC or Paramount, or whatever - where a producer could come in and go, "Give me something that sounds influenced by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Dokken," and they would crank that lick out for a cutscene in a movie. "I want emotion and angst and longing," - here you go... Soundtrack artists. 

The track I listened to kind of sounded like this. Like someone said, "We need a nu-metal girl band ripping it up in a club, but it has to sound BIG" and that is what you delivered. 

Ya, most of what i listen to has always been female-led, borderline alternative, so it makes sense id try to create similar stuff. ( why create what i don't like? ) Never meant to imply my taste was way out in left field, its just not mainstream, and often missed by people who stick with 'commercial radio'  ( apparent by my 'sample lists' )  That said, not all of it was "punkish", some of the albums are instrumentals, post rock and maid-core leaning, as well as some 'regular' gothic leaning rock ( again, mostly female led. ) if you only sampled 'the girls' ones, try a couple of the others, the style will change. 

if you meant my suggestion to "try it yourself with AI" was my "2nd",  if its too much to figure out, that is cool, i tried to make it more approachable to people with the interfaces i wrote so thought it might be an option if you felt like it.

( and i thought it was grok, stolen from the UNIX command )

Sun Apr 26 2026 06:03:00 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

So, your second post lost me. I just couldn't gronk it. I know that term is loaded now - but I mean it in the sense before Musk appropriated the word for his Ai. Anyhow - Here are my thoughts - what I listened to sounded, to be honest, like "nu-metal" - but with a girl growling out the lyrics instead of some dude with a shaved head, a goatee and too much eyeliner. It wasn't... I dunno - I expected your music to be avant-garde electornica or new wave - something like Talking Heads, or REM. Instead, it was kind of Lincoln Park meets Disturbed. Which is *fine*... but it wasn't... I dunno. It had a very feminist vibe to it - or female empowered. And that is OK too. I love Joan Jetts, I love early Go Gos when they were doing hardcore punk - I like Souixse. I think girls can rock - and the track I listend to, was certianly a woman *rocking* and singing about things that were important to HER as a female.  
But it sounded professional and polished and ready to like it could be a strong touring band. It just wasn't as *weird* as I expected from you - to be fair. I expected something that really made me re-evaluate my tolerance for what I could consider music - from you. But it wasn't anything challenging in that sense. It had good riffs, good hooks, commercial lyrics and themes - but at a pro level. Like... You could produce for a mainstream band and turn out hits for them in the 90s, early 2000s. 

Do me a favor - look up "Father of Peace," don't just listen to them, watch their videos - because they're a very visual band. They're a 3 piece... Drummer, Lead Vocal/Guitar, and bassist. The lead is a Jewish guy with a crazy red Jewfro who looks like a cross between Sideshow Bob and a deranged Cro-Magnon. Their influences are pretty transparent - but - they also kind of rock. Enemy and Bluish are two tracks I'd like you to check out. They're one of the most interesting bands, to me, that I've seen in the last 4 or 5 years. I'd like to hear your take on them. 

 

Was screwing around some with the music gen ( no one should be surprised there )  Came up with another song i REALLY like. .Not quite as much as Razor Transmission from TBD but damned close.

I cant post it to YT with the others, as i stole the lyrics in this case and they would take it down. So its on google drive ( sorry, id have put it on my personal next-cloud, but really don't want my URL out there for the rest of the world... ). I have never liked the original version musically, but the lyrics did hit home, and its timing was pretty good too.  The version that The Pretenders did, is one of my favorite standalone songs.  ( ii like scarling's version too, tho its radically different )

Its short    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CCR0jmu13Uy2JPmfvnT-0bb8Z6xwUUzZ/view?usp=sharing

and a less angry version, which i am still fond of...  but not as much as the above one that i got after messing with some of the style prompts afterward... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CDjHV5AbZjdL1PTpCxKzBQalrz_maVvD/view?usp=sharing

Ok. I tend to spin a disc and log in, so I'm into Dark Side right now - a very regular spin on my table - but I haven't listened in months. But I'm an 80s punk who also really likes Motown R&B and soul and graduated to speed metal - Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Exodus... Never got Slayer. But anyhow - there is a baseline for me.

I tend to love girl punk - Early GoGos is shredding - but also think that the Heartbreakers were a pioneering girl band who really got in touch with channeling what it was like in the mid 70s to be an "all girl band." I love Heart from that era too. Lita Ford as the female Ozzy, and Joan Jett gets classified as metal or rock - but I think she was as proto-punk as Iggy.

So, I'm not like... shitting on what I heard so far. It hit the right buttons for me - I'm not a "feminist" of any wave - you know my politics - but I'm also not going to dismiss any band or music because of a female lead - and I'll probably give it an extra chance - to be honest - because I know my biases and prejudices might make me dismiss something that is actually my kinda gig. 

I'll come back and give a broader listen to your catalog. For what it is worth - it was *very* listenable and well produced - but I tend to like very raw, early, underproduced garage-band sounding stuff best. I love Metallica - Kill 'em All and Motley Crue, "Too Fast For Love," precisely because it was BEFORE they got really polished - and that goes back to my punk, garage band roots. 

But I also love the Doors, the Stones, and Post-Sid Pink Floyd - so - highly produced AOR spins. 

But again, I am also a fan of Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson, and Debarge. I've got eclectic tastes. 

Right now this new band - out of Israel - is kind of lighting my fuse... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujbBa324_4w

New AI album may go up this week.

Was sitting around thinking about my recent giving up on my guitars.   I had a small band in HS/early college. We never did 'make it' but we had plans.  I even created a couple of album covers and a group name before we drifted off in different directions.  This week was looking at the last renaming image of the first album cover i have ( the 2nd, totally lost.. due to a bad tape backup, so only a memory ).   "hey, tho no one will give a damn or even notice, i should redo this cover in modern tech, and i really should make that album, like we were going to so long ago".

So... its a project.  And this time i will be a bit more careful on what i put out as tracks than i have been. Not that any were 'bad' but i want to be sure this is 'me' ...   And it will be clearly post-rock. Even before that was an actual genre, it was what we were doing. We were ahead of our time. ( and since none of us could sing.. lol )

Well, its up.

Redid the cover in modern tech.  The original was a pencil drawing. Then in early 90s did it in povray ( all i have of that is a tiny image i managed to rescue ). The 2nd album design, i did via Photoshop  ( or gimp. i cant remember now, but its totally lost ). All of the recordings, later on midi files i worked on to revive it, synth files, etc .  all gone. Only distant memories.

And ya, while its AI music i did poke a LOT at the prompts and a bit of redo and some remix to get it to sound a lot like we did and to be what i want, not what the AI wanted.  Is it 100%? No, but pretty damned close and 'outsiders' may not even noticed the difference if they had heard us back then.   Sort of have mixed feelings about it. Without the band, is it a success or a failure?  Or, does it even matter? its 'our'' music, and isn't that what really counts?

Ultimately, all art, you create for yourself. Writing, painting, sketching, music - whatever... you have something in you that you need to express.

If other people respond to it, that is a bonus - generally a big bonus - and too many people responding can go to your head - regardless of the media - you can start to believe your own hype - and also lose yourself in the response - the success. 

That guy Gotye - who did "Someone I used to Know," he hit super big with that track - but it was a one off - it was a project - and instead of going with it and becoming THAT thing - he pulled back and intentionally became obscure again. Can't imagine what kind of personal security it takes to do that. 

Mon May 04 2026 10:19:11 EDT from Nurb432

Well, its up.

Redid the cover in modern tech.  The original was a pencil drawing. Then in early 90s did it in povray ( all i have of that is a tiny image i managed to rescue ). The 2nd album design, i did via Photoshop  ( or gimp. i cant remember now, but its totally lost ). All of the recordings, later on midi files i worked on to revive it, synth files, etc .  all gone. Only distant memories.

And ya, while its AI music i did poke a LOT at the prompts and a bit of redo and some remix to get it to sound a lot like we did and to be what i want, not what the AI wanted.  Is it 100%? No, but pretty damned close and 'outsiders' may not even noticed the difference if they had heard us back then.   Sort of have mixed feelings about it. Without the band, is it a success or a failure?  Or, does it even matter? its 'our'' music, and isn't that what really counts?