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2ND ERA
The beginning of this period was ignited by retail software's ability to learn from songs uploaded by artists. And though this was a big step, features still did not come anywhere close to unlocking the full potential of an artist's imagination.

DATE	AUDIO	SOFTWARE	COMMENTARY
24JUN24		Udio	This song is based off the music for the Bahian bachata version of Lego House, before the vocals were added. I again tried to prompt to put an Indian influence on the music. This shows in the very first vocal part. In the last half of the song the rhythm of the percussion also takes on more of an Indian sequence. I would give more of my AI songs a Bahian influence if I could but the software doesn't know how without uploading a song.
24JUN24		Udio	Sugar Induced is one of the first songs I uploaded to Udio. I didn't prompt any lyrics so it started making lyrics in Portuguese due to the prompts, which were mostly Brazilian genres.
20JUN24		Suno | Udio	This is the next in a series of attempts to integrate Indian music with bachata. The software failed at that but did manage to create a nice fusion of bachata and some southeast Asian musical elements. Normally this song would not have enough going on instrumentally for my tastes, but it still was able to carry itself. I also sung background vocals on the first chorus.
20JUN24		Suno | Udio	I have been enjoying the mood, rhythm, and guitar work of Bachata since the late 2000s but have been disappointed in the lack of variety of instrumentation that it usually has. In 2009 I heard a bachata song that had flute between the verse and chorus and I have always wanted more of that type of variety in the genre. With this song I originally focused on flute and Indian music in the prompts, though the Indian prompts took a lot of time to take hold while the flute prompts seemed to add neoclassical elements to the song. After I moved the song to Udio and focused solely on Indian music in the prompts, which at least produced an interesting ending. Udio seemed to have trouble adding distinct sitar parts though, which Suno sometimes did a good job on in other songs. When first creating the song I attempted to have a male singer but was ignored by Suno. I didn't want to abandon the song though because the beginning was too catchy.
19JUN24		Udio	This song uses both the original recording and lyrics of Pattaya Addict as its source. Though the original 2010 recording does have some Indian influence in the vocals for the chorus, I attempted to focus prompting on putting as much Indian musical influence as possible. The results were pretty good with the exception of the lack of sitar and Indian percussion, though this came at the expense of most of the original song's American oldies attributes. The song also both replaced and maintained many of its vintage Asian pop elements.
19JUN24		Udio	Using the original recording of Bigfoot And Bob Dobbs and its lyrics as the source, I mostly used prompts involving several Brazilian and Caribbean genres. Somehow the original Caribbean singer eventually morphed into a pair of Gaelic folk singers, which I supsect has something to do with mood prompts I was using.
11JUN24		Udio	This song uses both the earliest recording of Pillage Your Lego Village that is publically available and its lyrics as a source. The prompts mostly involved MIDI metal, MIDI music, and chiptune.
07JUN24		Udio	I uploaded the first recording of Down To Clown and let the software run its course while using prompts that mostly involved Brazilian and Cuban music. The result is scarcely that, and most of the song's Latin element comes from the source recording, with itself already being a fusion of Bahian, electronic, funk, and jazz music. However, the software did add a nice additional jazz element.

1ST ERA
Retail software offers artists the ability to create music and extend created music by description.

DATE	AUDIO	SOFTWARE	COMMENTARY
26NOV23		Suno	The result of attempting to make an alternative version of Jungle Hunt by using cumbia in the prompt resulted in what sounds like a 1990s era Colombian or Peruvian cumbia song.
25NOV23		Suno	A similar situation as the previous attempt at Sugar Induced, though I tried some African prompts as well. This did not seem to make much difference because it still mostly sounds like Reggae, which I am not really a fan of. However, I still enjoyed the song enough to release it.
25NOV23		Suno	I attempted to create an alternative version of Sugar Induced using prompts with Brazilian genres arrocha and lambadao, however, the software was quite poor at this. I then tried to use different Caribbean genres such as soca, calypso, and kaseko. The software failed at this also, leaving reggae as the end result.

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