deeplearner5

About This Site

This page shows a set of my music projects, under my pseudonym deeplearner5. The tracks themselves live on SoundCloud, but this page is the index: it's just a list of albums with direct listening links.

These albums are shared as private/unlisted links — if you’ve been given this URL, you’re the intended audience. The albums aren't actually secret, but I really just want to share them with friends, I don't want to be a rockstar and I don't care what randos on SoundCloud think of them. If you want to share the links, please do so with that in mind.

Why I made this site

TL;DR: I’ve made a lot of music under the alias deeplearner5, and I wanted a straightforward way to share it with friends. This is that place.

Longer version: I’m not an apologist for AI. I see plenty of terrible behaviour in the current gold rush around it, but that’s a separate discussion, and I’m not inclined to ignore a technology entirely just because I dislike how it’s being implemented.

I found that I could use AI tools to help me make music far more quickly than my guitars, synths, and DAW ever allowed, so I experimented. I took care to design the music rather than just hitting a “make me music” button, and somewhere along the way I realised I was actually enjoying what I was making. I may be “AI slop” by the strictest definition, but it sounded like pretty good AI slop to me.

This music isn’t intended as a replacement for human musicians. It’s me making music for myself, often in styles that aren’t especially fashionable, and sharing it with friends. And although they often inspire me, it’s also not an attempt to impersonate artists — I’m trying to write and record in styles I like, not clone voices or sample anyone’s work.

If you’re wondering whether I’m going to use this to churn out rants about Nigel Farage (I considered "Fascist in a Frog Mask";-) ): no. I’ve learned pretty quickly that my political instincts veer towards “angry pensioner shouting at clouds”, which isn’t a sound I particularly want to explore here. When I do touch on politics, I usually mark it as a bonus track (see Minneapolis (You’re My Hero) or Grapefruit), and I favour a light touch.

So this is a place for people to listen to my stuff, if they want. Consider it a listening room, not a launch.

Requests

If you want me to make something you’d enjoy — a mood, a genre, a silly idead for a song, a private in-joke — get in touch. I’ll try pretty much anything.

If you want ska-punk songs about badgers with kazoo solos, I’m your man.