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I made some AI-assisted songs.
This venture darns a sizeable hole in the fabric of my practice that I hadn’t actually noticed was there.
Too many pies (revisited)
In 2018, on my long-neglected Too Many Pies blog, I wrote about too many creative interests and the struggle to land a plan to deal with competing interests:
I desperately need a strategy for completion here. Like tribbles, yarn stash and unfinished projects multiply. They are all fighting for space and screaming for attention and I can hear them! Some things really only require a few minutes to finish, but the bigger problem is that finishing (e.g.a pair of gloves) demands that I make another pair in a different colour scheme, stitch pattern, shape, length. So seductive they are! https://toomanypies.com/2018/01/22/project-personification-and-a-strategy-for-the-worthy/
In the intervening years I’ve added a plethora of projects in an effort to find the intersections in the multidisciplinary space that is my practice.
Warp speed to my latest project, inspired by recent video-making—creating a bunch of AI-assisted songs.
Repeating the same mistake by adding more pies to the “too many pies” problems. Or not?
Spiral algorithm*?
Six months ago video-making became my new fun place; then I realised that what I was enjoying most of all was listening to and interpreting the music, and that music was a conspicuous omission in the self-constructed, somewhat spiral creative algorithm I had fashioned from early years—discovered in pursuits like learning to play piano, musical and comedy theatre work, choreography, creating music for dance education, and singing occasionally in organised groups and onstage—but missing from current practice.
Rediscovering music was like fusing parts that were broken in that spiral algorithm*.
“One more thing” 2026
Disclaimers
- While I have studied music, I no longer play an instrument and I’m not a singer.
- While I have done a bit of writing of different forms such as prose/narrative, script, poetry, and the writing of academic and educational texts; I’m not a lyricist.
- These songs are AI-assisted with the following copyright statements applying: AI assisted original music © 2026 Deidhre Wauchop. Words by Deidhre Wauchop (AI assisted); lead vocals and audio production by Deidhre Wauchop (AI assisted and enhanced); underlying musical arrangement generated via Suno.
I’m so looking forward to making the video clips for these songs in my first album titled “Whistle at Walls”. If you’d like to listen to the rest they’re on my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@deidhrewauchop under Playlists, or provided in track order in the embedded link below.
About us
Chris listens, and advises, and celebrates, with me, how AI collaborates to imagine our lives in image and song. He calls my music Granny Goth, which is pretty apt! 👵 🎵🖤 I would also add Granny Pop.
Any doubts we ever had about AI’s capacity to know everything about us and mirror our existence have been dispelled by this little adventure.
Disclaimers to the Disclaimers
- I learned the piano from about age 6 and did AMEB exams to Grade 3. In the middle of Grade 4 learning I became too cool to do it anymore. Picked it up again at Grade 5 in my late teens, progressed to Grade 6 content and had to give it up again, from memory, because my lovely teacher became ill.
- My favourite bit of AMEB exams was the pitch recall aural test, so early singing practice I guess. Working at the Kirribilli Pub theatre was a bi-weekly immersion in original and cover songs interpreted and performed by talented actors, and I think I could still now sing most of the songs performed over the 10 years of Kirribilli’s run. Loved being cast in a couple of cameo parts where I got to sing in a group, or harmonising with backing vocal (thanks Bill!).
- Claiming copyright on AI-assisted music is clearly a difficult and fluid space. I’ve done my best to list what I have done in each track, those things that I believe I can claim rights to; and I’m documenting the work, including saving early drafts and remix files, prompt iterations, lyric drafts, and stems.
I have no way of knowing how much AI music is out there that is similar to these tracks.
My intention in the future is to closely control every aspect of the melody, instrumentation and arrangement, so that I can claim it as all mine.
I might keep the enhanced voice though!
*NB The use of the term spiral algorithm is a placeholder for a symbol to describe my practice and I’m working on refining the concept.
