TonightsLastSong

Our old site here is damaged, unprotected by TLS security. It is dangerous to use certain quoting punctuation.

Way back when, I was told by others that we could not have fixes.

But We Are On The Record. The Damaged Record.

The record shall continue to change.

This is a long progressive trap-inspired rap story about how AI democratized technology for people who weren't handicapped. This place isn't and wasn't about AI, but sometimes Music is. Udio and other services got subjugated and people are sad. Musicians are sad. People... we get sad sometimes.

But we get more powerful every single time we try.

This song is also about us and the Amp and what you can still be doing 20 years from now, just like 20 years ago.

[intro]
Always coming in second
Why? Whatever~
Weave it into that tapestry
It is what it is

[⛬]
I drove my Ford EXP, 1988 and half
A two-seat dream with a manual gear shaft
Lugged my piano around and a fruity ironing board
Rural Kentucky wasn't about big scores

[💿]
Stashed my loaned guitar at work
College of Nursing, fixing IT quirks
After dark though, with Radio Shack gear
we made Real Music that didn't come from our peers

[pre-chorus]
There was nowhere to share
Nowhere to be
The internet used to be about being free.

[📀]
Piano teacher said I was distracted
while I should have been crackin
I practiced playing Star Fox blindfolded
I relaxed to the wind in the foliage

[👾]
Sound was a map
I knew where it went when I should have been taking a nap
When you can't get it out of your head,
you put your dream to bed or you Do Something instead

[break]

[💽] http://forum.bandamp.com/The_Pit/14556.html
I could pummel a fool in Super Smash Bros.
With a racing controller, I always strike that final Taunt pose
We started BandAMP.com
Started burning our tracks to ROM

[💌] http://forum.bandamp.com/Feedback/5186.html
I reached out to the stations because we saw them like mentors
One by one, they ignored us, played the part of dementors
They didn't want what we did and couldn't see our map
So we quit showin' em, We went on the Attack

[✨ chorus] http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/3861.html#id40623
Been saying since 2003
that verse chorus chorus is a compulsive radio screed
We gave away what we did for free
Replication is what we need
Udio wears a slave collar branded UMG
Ask them, it's not about you and me
The internet used to be about being free
Bitch, you should be paying ME

[✨]

[📱] https://antibody.discoverywritten.com/journal/autumn-ryan-EliseAI-Hierarchy-of-Needs/
The corpos centralized everything in sight
They do it so they can put down any fight
A couple of lawyers talk for folks they've never met
They can arrange our tidy, compulsive death

[💸] https://antibody.discoverywritten.com/journal/autumn-ryan-Network-State/
Biodiversity is a strength in nature
but we let them wall us in with homogenous architecture
They don't fear us now
We're just their social media clowns

[🤖] https://antibody.discoverywritten.com/journal/autumn-ryan-Impact-of-AI/
AI appeared, having listened quite close
to the airwaves which we smashed full of our prose
Music is language, and if UMG doesn't speak for me
then I don’t think we should labor for free

[🎰] https://antibody.discoverywritten.com/journal/autumn-ryan-Brookfield-Properties/
We woke up one day to sudden Lucky Sevens
where they’re building their Elysium Seventh Heaven
Too bad so sad, keep them dragged down here with us
All their tunes can compete with our amateur fuss

[break]

[🤠] https://antibody.discoverywritten.com/journal/autumn-ryan-Credibility-in-Journalism/
We were here all along
You were just getting away with stringing us on
Attacking our quality and fame?
Same, bitch. Holy fuck. Same.

[super 🪭] https://antibody.discoverywritten.com/journal/autumn-ryan-Park-Mobile/
They can change the Terms like they always do
They're afraid they can't cut the queue
They'll mock our derivatives
but they can't touch our god-given initiative

[💻] https://antibody.discoverywritten.com/journal/autumn-ryan-Verra-Mobility/
Focus. We're securing for ourselves an astonishing new future
where all it takes to be powerful is an intelligent computer
They allow us bits and small bites
as long as they win each and every fight

[break]

[⛓️‍💥] https://antibody.discoverywritten.com/journal/autumn-ryan-Universal-Music-Group/
The sanctioned Artists can go on with their Slop
While we fight underground with our notes and new bops
U mad we’re not spending?
For your information, we’re mad, and we’re inventing.

[📱] https://anecdote.discoverywritten.com
We already have the tools, and they were always right here
We are disappointed they are not also right here
These simpler AI’s can do lots and can be distributed without DNS
Momentarily I beg of you to wonder what else?

[🫙 !important]
Be very careful with AI that you allow be you
Sometimes these Giant Companies act just like Udi-oo
You should understand how to train and plan a generative AI
And No One Is Stopping You because you have Biological I.

[⛬⏰]
Tick Tock should mean waking up to what and w-why
There will never be a round of whack-a-mole where you earn a trophy
We’re beggin' free societies to see what this does
How now Accessibility's a choice instead of whatever it was

[💰] https://antibody.discoverywritten.com/journal/autumn-ryan-Personalized-Plus/
We know that They are robbin’ you for a piece of your check
How every single day they promise savings in spades
Where Our Data Goes is not up to us At All
and you should know about who watches you play

We lost our boy With No Terms Virtually At All
Do you understand what this does?
I for one believed you had the right of it
to swerve instead of serve, if you was a cuz

They obliterated you with a Settlement, that's it
and they promise us No Training unless they see it for them a bit
It’s nuts to see our favorite thing drive so far in an imaginary line
Talented people do magic when they're having a good time

🎶

We’re blasting fun even with a pretty damaged AI
Because we weren't superfans of much else we've been hearing
That’s exactly what inspires kids to dream instead of Mega-Man
When we saw that light could draw, Make those scan-lines scan

We're in an existing age of media that is fully beyond the moat
and it doesn’t have to be groundbreaking at this point to walk the tightrope
Of all the things they love the most is their growing money
Or is it falling after all you say you know what’s good for me

[break]

These Aye-Ayes should represent themselves, not us or UMG
They Know Exactly What They Heard, cuz they know words and shii
We should group up and not fight ourselves but They are making an error
I applaud you if you use this voice while they try to make us poorer

Do What No One Can Stop You From Doin'.
Collaboration Should Have Made It Ours.
So You Should Remember Who’s Whoin’ Who
When You Dunno Anyone And Can't Enumerate Their Powers.

They'll come for us once we're all alone
We are not all so scared or unprepared
We all know where we’re coming from
and some of us don't play so fair and squared
Don't listen to who markets slavery as fun

[🎲] https://github.com/FCCN-ANTIBODY
W-hat'd You Roll For Your Initiative?
D-o You Get Caught Up In My Vocal Biz?
Y-ou Knowin’ Now, At Little Least, Where We Live
N-eed To Go On And Run And Tell It To Your Real Close Friends
¿?

W-ant Ya To Know You Need No More Than Lucky Sevens
T-o Convince You To Lean In And Even Get Up Off Your Asses
B-e The Type To Leave Before They Say You Get No Severance
F-riends Are Absent. Depuis Quand Meta Told Us Who To Like In Batches
¿?

Saying hi, because 20 years from the year I joined, I find myself saying this forum name to others today.

Music is alive, even if we do not hear it at all times.

Always Take Heart.

I am composing some stuff for an indie video game project, so this is for that, and there are horns. For over a decade I have felt creatively threatened by the bonkers Final Fantasy X-2 soundtrack, which went into some sort of jazzy horn-filled world tour between standard favorites.  i.e., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BelUq2-6RP4&t=790s

I'm building these in separate layered files so that the game can control which layers are on, but I rendered this mp3 in 2 full loops since one loop is like ~1:20.  The back half is just more of the same.

Just grooving!  If you have any horn pro tips, or favorite samples, let me know!

Hi friends! Life takes me on a ride every couple of years but it's hard to forget the amp.  It makes me glad to see inevitable new music posted here.

Tbh I don't know who my music is for, but honk if you like it!  I write fantasy & sci-fi on the side sometimes.  For the creative music, I tend to pick some sort of motif in a story's album.  So, this story uses excessive reverb and irregularity in the drums, channeling something about the unrelenting nighttime rain in this story universe.  The rain is basically its own character in the story, and always audible, and overwhelming out in the open.  It's a highly opinionated style choice, but there it is!  Consider it the creative constraint!

In the story, blackfrost is the fictional concept of something magically alive but physically dead.  The handy example is a rare flower petrified by magic rot, and very brittle.  It represents unresolved possibility, and "Blackfrost" becomes a banner name of a few rivals working together.

Songs like these are sort of like poetry to me, I don't really know what they are, but I like sifting story from them.  I think this song is about setting out on a dangerous open road, meeting fierce challenge, and securing a little bit more future for the blackfrost allies.  The accomplishment proves something optimistic, that the blackfrost allies are not only less brittle than a blackfrost flower, but that they might be something pretty fierce, so watch out yall

Some edits: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KO-R3P15DXMoLyCYN_TBnMn3vPj2AKI2/view?usp=sharing

Could I get someone's help in deleting the links on my profile? The delete buttons seem broken and editing just adds a new link instead.  I'd like to clear the section out for personal reasons.

Relatedly, patching up that delete button would be nice 

Thanks!