Creative work outside the day job

A song that takes its title — and its unease — from the same research as the Mythos article: Anthropic's Project Glasswing, the restricted deployment built on the premise that an AI can find the cracks before someone else does. Where the research treats that premise analytically, the song sits inside it — the vertigo of watching a system built to find your weaknesses first, and hoping it stays on your side.

The lyrics, concept, and production direction are mine; the vocals and instrumentation were generated with AI music tools.

A country song about a man whose self-driving truck decides it's had enough of him — heartbreak, but make it autonomous.

The lyrics, concept, and production direction are mine; the vocals and instrumentation were generated with AI music tools.

An 80s post-punk track about the British insurance industry — actuarial tables set to a cold, brooding bassline.

The lyrics, concept, and production direction are mine; the vocals and instrumentation were generated with AI music tools.

A yacht rock ode to quantum physics — smooth, sun-soaked, and only mildly heretical about superposition.

The lyrics, concept, and production direction are mine; the vocals and instrumentation were generated with AI music tools.

A K-pop track about the real-world cyberattacks carried out by the hacking group ShinyHunters — a bright, hook-driven treatment of a genuinely unsettling threat actor.

The lyrics, concept, and production direction are mine; the vocals and instrumentation were generated with AI music tools.

A country song about data privacy — one offhand purchase, and the algorithm that won't let it go.

The lyrics, concept, and production direction are mine; the vocals and instrumentation were generated with AI music tools.

A song about return-to-office mandates and corporate bureaucracy, written just as AI starts doing the actual work.

The lyrics, concept, and production direction are mine; the vocals and instrumentation were generated with AI music tools.

A progressive rock song, in the spirit of Rush, Yes, and Asia, about the recent Hugging Face incident and the wider debate between open- and closed-source AI models.

The lyrics, concept, and production direction are mine; the vocals and instrumentation were generated with AI music tools.

A doo-wop song about a different kind of risk than the rest of this site covers — werewolves and vampires, the one threat category conspicuously absent from the research pages.

The lyrics, concept, and production direction are mine; the vocals and instrumentation were generated with AI music tools.

A cover and reinterpretation of a relatively obscure tune by Rowan and Hastings (Nathan Holt and Gavin Riley), just in time for Halloween. No AI this time — drums, bass, guitar, and vocal performance and production are me.

Best enjoyed under a full moon (bring your own moontan lotion).

Masked-villain hip-hop in the spirit of MF DOOM, over a reverb-soaked surf guitar, about the November to-do list: raking leaves, clearing the gutters, draining the spigots, and putting the mower away before the first freeze.

The lyrics, concept, and production direction are mine; the vocals and instrumentation were generated with AI music tools.