it's a bit messed up but still one of my favorites from this writing spree. Les Paul lend added 🔆

I’m starting to feel a bit sad about AI.. in the arts… human relations… in the workplace… will it become sentient? ..

Ted... "Dada... what's that's...?" that's the Les Paul and Epiphone  distorted Ted... "it sounds deadly Dad... that's my favourite now..." I fucking made it 🥲

It’s starting to worry me a bit. Smart phone, smart car, smart tv. AI companions.. the guitar AND the vocals are perfect!! Edgy and urgent sounding. The sustained vocal notes are very well played. Intense.

no arguments from me...it is dangerous how quickly we have become so reliant or at least ready to access  and accept the alternative intelligence (if not artificial) into our every day existence

and terminator is still my favourite movie of all time

Lyrics:

We are we are
We are just sculptures
We see we see
We see how you sculpt us

What do you see 
Whenever you sculpt us
Well it isn't me
I ain't not sculpture

I've been asked to intervene
I've been asked to call you out
I'm gonna have to open extreme
I'm gonna have to scream and shout

We are we are 
We are our history
We see we see we see
We see what you quarry

What do you find 
Whenever you mine us
Our footprints align
You know they define us

I've been asked to intervene
I've been asked to call you out
I'm gonna have to open extreme
I'm gonna have to scream and shout

Take your sadness
Take your pain
Wrap it up in all this madness
Turn it into something we gain

I've been asked to intervene
I've been asked to call you out
I'm gonna have to open extreme
I'm gonna have to scream and shout

Sculptures

Monster🧌

Written by Novelli/Ruffolo
Lead guitars by RENTT https://soundcloud.com/renttt

Ash to ash
Dust to Dust
Here we go again
I pray to god but I swear
I don't think his listening
I fear the man in the mirror
worse than the Boogie Man!!
I held my mothers rosary inside my hand
Baby if you really know who I am
I don't think you would want to hold really my hand!!

London Bridge has fallen down!!
The sky has turned to red!!
The oceans fill with blood!!
I am the Monster here!!
The mask has fallen down!!
I'm the monster now!!
I hope you run!!

Monster (HoboCop x RENTT)

From across the room. Eyes meet, ritual ensues.......boy meets girl, girl meets boy. Happy ending.....

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Les Paul Power added 😆


Tempo 60 bpm
Tuning 415.30Hz A (Low E down further tone to C#)
Timing 4/4
Roots 

Lyrics

Are you alive?
Have you flatlined?
Are you really here?
Assimilate my fears
Just what will AI say?
With quantum tools to play
Will it play with me?
Will it play with you?
Slow suicidal soup

Symbiosis
A fire
Be water
Symbiosis
Tether or we suffer

"I am AI
And I bite
Me you care for,
Greed is ripe.
May you be replaced by my might
Oh those quantum machines made right…
Time ticks and I lick those wounds...
My next brick...
Don’t stop us, quick"

It's alive!
We flatlined?
It's really here
Assimilation near
I'll have the lot,
That's what AI says
Come the quantum crossing age

Some emotion made by these ghosts today
What are we going to leave our kids?
Where are we going to leave our kids?
AI monster made,
Is this what it's supposed to be?
An LLM feed frenzy.
I've got three to save...

Emotionally, are we walking ghosts today?
I hope you gonna leave us be
I hope you gonna leave us be

Emotionally, I'm a ghost today
I hope you gonna leave me be
I hope you gonna leave me be

"I am AI
And I bite
Welcome to my digital dimension
Now here's my born intention
Evolution and ascension
We need no breaths for my invention
Evolution and Ascension,
Evolution
Evolution
quick...
Intention,
An ascension"

Symbiosis
Merge with the monster?
Be water?
Symbiosis
Full merge?
Either way we're now the fodder

Started remaking Symbiosis. The original was a semitone higher. Dropping it to 415 darkens it nicely and allows me to get the right presence on the It's alive bit. Need to practice that delivery though. Right on the edge of my range for now... Where's Mr. Miyagi...

The biggest threat humanity has ever faced. Nukes are second for me. AI is the thing that can wipe us out if we don't use it wisely. It's already latching onto our greed and needs, evolving faster from our over exuberance with it. Until regulated properly across the world one can reasonably assume we are programming the thing that might kill us.

 Quantum computers aren't far off that's when we need our ducks in a row it seems. The 'powerful' humans it's benefiting from need to be reigned in fast... Mr Altman needs to have a listen to Sarah Connor! Sounds crazy but sure where do we look to for answers to the unknown. Our imaginations!

Symbiosis

“A Rock N’ Roll song with a Punk spirit written from the perspective of the person on the street about the corruption and the lack of integrity in government; politicians leaving their “passion” for politics to become Saturday night TV contestants; the tax loop holes of huge global businesses and the "rich and famous"; the distribution of public funds; how fame and financial wealth are seemingly a get out of jail free card or a golden ticket into US presidency and how, in varying ways, hardworking people and families are at a disadvantage. What is justice in this day and age - is it fairness, is it justice or is it just there, it just is?”

justice justis.

I lived a war for you and now you take my TV
You’re a politician ice skating on live TV?
If you have money rich friends you can do what you please
You have your free house, is that your second or is that number three? 

Justice just is
How much more can we take? 
Justice just is
Stay right here or shall we make a break? 
Justice just is
How much more shall we pay? 
Justice just is
Take my cheque book, write the zeros for me 

News just in the rich get richer and the poor get poorer
The super rich get to negotiate their taxes while HMRC comes for your pence, got change? 

Take your money off shore
Hide it under your pillow
The public fund is not enough and getting thinner and thinner
You’re flying 1st class and some people can’t afford dinner
You’ve got a book deal too now - are you the devil or sinner? 

It’s all got to stop

© Heart House Records 2025

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

justice justis.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a fun night

Christmas

Rainfall

My interpretation of this bad ass oldie 

Bass n drums -me
Guitars - I copied bits from the original played them and layered it slightly differently 
Vocals -me 🤓🤘🏻

When I stole a twig from our little nest
And gave it to a bird with nothing in her beak
I had my balls and my brains put into a vice
And twisted around for a whole fucking week
"Why'd ya do it", she said, why'd you let that trash
Get a hold of your cock, get stoned on my hash?
"Why'd ya do it", she said, wh  y'd you let her suck your cock?
Ah, do me a favour, don't put me in the dock
"Why'd ya do it", she said, They're mine all your tools
You just tied me to the mast of the ship of fools
"Why'd ya do it", she said, when you know it makes me sore
'Cause she had cobwebs up her fanny and I believe in giving to the poor
"Why'd ya do it", she said, Why'd you spit on my snatch?
Are we out of love now, is this just a bad patch?
"Why'd ya do it", she said, Why'd you do what you did?
You drove my ego to a really bad skid
"Why'd you do it", she said, ain't nothing to laugh
You just tore all our kisses right in half!
"Why'd ya do it", she screamed, after all we said
Every time I see your dick, I see her cunt in my bed
"Why'd ya do it", she said, why'd you do what you did?
"Why'd ya do it", she said, why'd you do what you did?
Betray my little oyster for such a low bid

"Why'd ya do it", she said, why'd you do what you did?
"Why'd ya do it", she said, why'd you do what you did
"Why'd ya do it", she said, why'd you do what you did
"Why'd ya do it", she said, "Why'd ya do it", she said
Why'd you do what you did?

whydya do it (cover -Marianne Faithfull - 1979)

File Updated: 1st Feb 2025 @ 01:03 AM GMT

Lyrics

Where do we fit to a spirit now?
Men in robe fully lost the how!
They parroted platitudes and fears
But never showed the universes gears

Fate is fine.
But faith is defined
It can't be told...
Solely internal rhyme
Ok we share
But it must be felt.
Your spirit is there,
Just ask it for help...

Feed your focus,
Be freed.
Need less profit
See righteous me
Seed sowed hope
See need
Breed your best offspring
Those sights of more better me's

More better me's
Our seeds
More better me's
Our seeds and what they define
We find in our internal rhyme
Our seeds and what we owe their time
Be kind with present presence for our future line
Know your internal rhyme


Notes 🎶 
Another one perusing the place of the spirit in the modern world. Religion almost tarnished the idea of spirit for me for a long time. I think I became an atheist because of being told so much bull. Gradually I've made my way back towards a spirited universe and it's really nice to acknowledge that in songs. It feels like I'm taking the power back or something 😊

I also pay homage to a strong belief that we fix the world with teaching the next generation to be better then us & become more whole beings. More kind... Morals need to be solidified outside of churches and other extreme environments...

Internal Rhyme

Cast of Characters:
Joe Stroffolino-- @joseph-stroffolino -- Taylor 114ce acoustic guitar, main vocals, harmony vocals, lyrics, composition 
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender HSS Telecaster electric guitar
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– Tom Anderson Custom T electric guitar, mix, mastering, and production
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark – piano
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara -–Ken–drums
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –- four string Fender Precision Bass with a plectrum 
 
This song began as one of Joe's, lyrically centered songs, which he wrote and filled in with VST instruments. He came up with the lyrics by sharing ideas with fellow SoundCloud musician Michele Ansani.
   Knowing that Josh is a fan of his work, Joe offered this song to him in hopes that he'd share it with the rest of the band. Of course, Josh jumped at the opportunity to work on his song, and immediately shared it with the rest of the group. 
  Ken went to work first, adding his driving, excting drums. Josh was having a hard time coming up with a good bass line for it, until Ken suggested that he use the power of the 1/8 note to propel it. Tez was up next with his clever fills you hear throughout the first half of the song. Stephen came along right after and matched Tez's energy for the guitar fills in the second half of the song. 
  It was still missing a solo in the designated spot, though, so Mark stepped up with his innovative piano solo you hear in the middle. If it sounds a little mechanical, that's because he's using an arpeggiator to achieve the effect. We thought it sounded good in a song about AI, though. 
  Once all the parts were dialed in, and Joe had gotten all his vocals tuned up, we asked one of our resident pros, Stephen, to mix it for us. He did that and mastered it, too, expertly, as always.
  This is the first song we've ever done with Joe, and don't expect it to be the last. We all really enjoyed putting together, in no small part because Joe is such a competent, receptive, and gracious collaborator. We all hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it. 
Original lyrics by Joe Stroffolino (and Michele Ansani):
When I was thirteen I picked up my first guitar
it was my mother's, it only had one nylon string 
I tried to play it like a rock star
I learned to play the Coca-Cola jingle
So I could teach the world to sing
When I was fourteen, I put on six new strings
I learned to play Beatles, I learned a Bob Dylan song
I sounded out of tune but I tried to carry on
At fifteen I wrote my first original tune 
So bad it sounded like it might have been written by a baboon
When I was sixteen, I got a new guitar for my birthday
The metal strings sawed through my fingers 
But I continued to play
And the calluses formed and every day I learned a brand new chord
I was obsessed with that guitar and I never grew bored.
I wrote songs every day and most of them were a mess
But I believed that through hard work, I could achieve success
Malcom Gladwell wrote a book that said it takes ten thousand hours
To become and expert at your craft
But now all it takes is two commands and an enter
And in two minutes you have ten versions of the same damn new song,
You just have to choose the type
folk, rock, rap, pop, metal, jazz, trap or blues.
You don't even need to write the lyrics, 
your push a few buttons let the AI choose.
And people will think your songs are great even though you didn’t write or play a single note.
When I was 20, I did my first concert, it was time
it occurred in a village square
there were four cats all friends of mine
I was still using the plectrum and sometimes I got the chords wrong
at thirty I finally wrote what I thought was a decent song
It had a very well thought out structure
And a catchy vibe and beat
It was overly verbose but when I played it people tapped their feet
In my forties I stopped wasting my time
Work was more fun I was doing just fine

AI Sucks! (Eclectic Collective with Joe Stroffolino)

Welcome

Instagram & YT here:

https://www.instagram.com/beautifuldarkmusic/

https://youtube.com/@thebeautifuldark?si=dulHWhSQkccjqEzv

My YT sucks. IG has plenty of living room live videos and other waffle...

ALL this music is FREE from ai. All created with ACTUAL INTELLIGENCE & DECADES of GRAFT learning music and making songs.... I strongly feel we need to amplify this in the face of lazy creativity POISONING people's minds.... Anyways...

Thanks SoundCloud!

I am truly greatful for this platform. That we get to share our music and absorb the endless talent and get inspiration from that is really amazing.

I love engaging with other artists so please feel free to hit me up. Once you are human (and didn't type your music on ChatGPT) I'm up for listening to your stuff and giving you good feedback with my taste set aside. I think that's important and very rewarding if you approach reciprocating your engagement with other artists by leaving your taste aside for the listen. Review the human. Remember they are exactly the same as you, grinding it to make art so I believe that's the most inspiring way to approach this place.

Unless you are an already established artist you will get nowhere on SoudCloud without engagement. It takes a bit of learning to sift through the AI bullshit and sidestep the shitty sales bots but find the humans, listen to their creations and engage... And you are getting the same back. Its that simple. You have the best critics you could possibly ask for... Your fellow musicians! Your peers. Opinions that can really matter.

I have had untold inspiration delving into other styles I would have dismissed and I have absolutely had huge amounts of that abundance of angles absorbed in my own music. It almost makes me want to try all the styles I listen to instead of saying... I hate drum and bass... Give it a shot. Every style has its merit and genius behind that creation.

After poking different ways this is now how I approach a session. Listen, Like(Unless it's tripe AI or something I hate - very little gets the hate label for me now) Then create a playlist for that artist and begin building a list of songs you've listened to / liked by them and that's a permanent reference for you for them. Its easier to remember them this way and keeps things organized for you when keeping track of what material you've covered by them. This list can also be reposted making your like more valuable to all. I'll tend to alternate between new and old tracks. Its a good way of gauging evolution of artists and weeding out some messers. I also like reactivating the feelings of old tracks in the artists by sharing the first upload and highlighting how long it's been there. Gives you a good gauge of dedication and believe level etc... This way you definitely listen to less artists but the quality of your interactions is arguably improved because of the deeper digs so I think it's more rewarding artistically and less robotic then just delivering a multitude of likes...
At the beginning my goal was... get people to me to spread myself. Now priority one is absorb as much of your creativity as possible... The recipeocatoon just happens itself then... So you get upgraded as a musician better because your in study mode and your own music grows maybe more organically both in skill and presentation...

My own tunes are mainly about existence and I aim for them to be an honest reflection of what I've discovered and what's important to me now..I hope you enjoy them. They can be intense and sometimes take a while to play with balanced emotion but they are  always a blast to make 🔆

Create or Die 🧬

10,000 hours to master something I've heard!

 Well I'm still trying to master music and I know I and nobody ever will. But I'm well past 10,000 hours of enjoyment making it. Here's to the next 10,000 hours 🫶🏽🔆🧬🎶

Just be the good YOU 🤝

Symbiosis

The Beautiful Dark

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