Black History

The Wheelhouse

The Wheelhouse

A Concept Album on the Life of Robert Smalls AI Process/Open Source Software: HUMAN, Google Flow Music (Lyria 3.5), Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Perchance.org – DAW: Audacity 4 (alpha), OS: Linux (Ubuntu 26.04) The Wheelhouse – Full Album (31:00) I built these sounds in the dark, on purpose. Every cue on this record started the same way, with a decision about what silence should feel like before it … Read moreThe Wheelhouse

Elijah “Lije” Dupree’s “High Water & Hard Times” (1927-1930s)

Elijah “Lije” Dupree’s “High Water & Hard Times”

High Water & Hard Times is a free 12-track, two-hour Delta blues concept album following fictional bluesman Elijah “Lije” Dupree from Dockery Plantation and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 to the juke joints of Memphis, St. Louis, and Chicago. It is a story of migration, survival, and the blues as resistance, created through human-AI collaboration.