Living Music Lab: How AI Helped Me Make Music Again

The Living Music Lab is an emerging space where artists create fluid, responsive music using voice, real instruments, and AI tools like Mureka without needing perfection. This is how I returned to songwriting after years away.

What if music didn’t need to be finished to be felt?

I’ve written songs since I was a teenager.

I never chased it.
But I never lost it either.

What’s changed

Using the tools now available to all of us, something has shifted.

Some of the songs were written and recorded in under an hour.

Some were built on foundations I’ve carried for years.

One was written by my dad in the 80s. I gave it a voice.
One was revived from a band I was in with the talented Phil Crew.

How I made them

I used Mureka, a tool that lets you blend real vocals with generated instrumentation.

your voice
or one you create

I used my own voice where I could,
and a voice model where I couldn’t.

This isn’t new

This is already happening.

Artists everywhere are reclaiming the act of making.

What that means

Music that doesn’t require permission
Music that doesn’t need to be polished to be real

Moby gets it.

Check out his free catalogue:
https://mobygratis.com/

The idea I’m exploring

A space where music doesn’t have to be static.

Where it doesn’t have to be final.

Where the line between listener and creator becomes porous.

What becomes possible

You can say:

Play me a lullaby in the style of Artist X
Use the name Jane
Help her sleep

In this space:

artists can use real instruments
songs don’t need to be perfect
making becomes the point

What matters

As long as you enjoy making it.

It doesn’t matter if nobody listens.

They won’t win awards.

They weren’t made for that.

They were made because they wanted to be made.

What I made this week

Under an album named Resonance:

Child in the City — written by my dad, Peter Forster
Keep Moving Fast — music by Phil Crew, lyrics by me (from a long time ago)
I See in Patterns — written by me, today
I Don’t Love Me Like You Do — written by me, today

What I did with it

For fun, I pulled them into a small EP on Spotify (awaiting approval).

Not as a launch.

As an exploration.

To see what’s possible.

What this is really about

The kind of expression that doesn’t wait for the rules to be written.

The Living Music Lab isn’t a product.

It’s a space.

A note to others making

Thanks to everyone making music right now, quietly or boldly.

Your work doesn’t need to be finished to be true.

Where it lives

Now available on Spotify and iTunes.