Start here: ten songs across twenty years
A guided route through the acoustic, electronic and AI-assisted eras.
Listening guides
Stories from the catalog
The song pages hold the facts. These guides connect the eras, tools and recordings into a history you can hear.
Originals and reimaginings
Why the old recordings remain beside the rebuilt arrangements.
The seven electronic albums
The 2014 SoundCloud albums and the broader produced catalog around them.
Revisiting older songs with Suno
How and why the archive songs were given new arrangements.
Suno Prompting Field Guide
A practical handbook for genre, instrumentation, vocals, structure, production and iteration.
Music Theory for Songwriters and Producers
Scales, modes, chords, Roman numerals, progressions and practical workflows for instruments and DAWs.
From guitar to FL Studio
The tools changed, but the melodic thread continued.
The Ethics of Making Music with AI
Alex Merced on AI as a music tool: who counts as a musician or songwriter, honest and dishonest uses, the cost to working musicians, and why disclosure and community matter.
When Hard Becomes Easy: AI, Art, and the Question of Worth
Alex Merced’s perspective on creative access, artistic skill, working artists and the tradeoffs that arrive when AI makes difficult creative work easier.