tylerdurdan* Offers A Unique Approach To Music With A Powerful Purpose

Intro:

tylerdurdan* is today’s featured interview artist & was born from an idea by Raffaele Annunziata. Raffaele, the founder of the Web Agency Seed Media Agency, possesses a degree in Cinema and Multimedia Communication. After years of working in online communication with multiple public and private companies, he’s now making music with the help of generative AI software. Much of the music released under tylerdurdan* serves a greater purpose & combines all of his unique skillsets to create art. Before reading our full conversation & learning more about tylerdurdan*, you can follow him @tylerdurdan10 & listen to more wonderful tracks of his down below.

Meet: tylerdurdan*

Me: What was it that inspired you to pursue music with a more non-traditional approach?

tylerdurdan*: Not being a musician, I was able to break down this barrier thanks to generative AI. In June of this year, I started writing my first album, "Buffet," with a specific intent: to use music to communicate messages that I consider to be of fundamental importance. First and foremost, to shout to the world that it's time to stop the genocide in Palestine carried out by Israel for over a year.

Your mission is very honorable & grounded! Do you remember the first song you ever wrote before starting your career this year?

Yes. I've always written for fun and in 2009 I wrote a strange poem, which I called "controcorrente" (against the current). Then, I realized it could be the basis for rap lyrics and in 2012 I had a well-known producer from Naples, Mc Doppia C, sing it. It wasn't a success, but it was the first thing I revisited when I started using generative AI. Now you can listen to it on all platforms and it's dedicated to the activist Vittorio Arrigoni.

And, how would you describe the style & process for creating your music with this tool?

Generative AI prompts are improving week by week, and this has allowed me to evolve my music in just a few months. The starting genre is always rap, hip-hop culture is the one that represents me the most, especially for ethical and social issues. As a street photographer, I believe that rap and street photography are fundamentally the same thing, so choosing the rap style for me was natural. But I'm experimenting with other sounds.

Where does your stage name originate from? And has it ever changed?

My stage name is clearly derived from the character Tyler Durden in Fight Club. It's been my nickname for a long time because it exemplifies the duality we all live in, especially on social media.

That’s a dope origin story! Now, who are some artists or producers you’d like to work with collaboratively?

One of the future steps is the collaboration with real musicians, beatmakers, and producers, something I'm already doing. If I could choose, I would do a blues with Blind Willie McTell.

If you had the choice, what does the perfect studio environment look like to you?

Similar to the studio where Stairway to Heaven was recorded

Nice! That would be a dream honestly. Do you have other talents & hobbies outside of music that some may not know about you?

Photography is my first love, and many of my songs are inspired by my own photos. In fact, all my album covers feature my photography. On a more serious note, I'm a huge Napoli fan and winning the third Scudetto was amazing. If I have any talent, it's probably being able to sleep in. I'm practically undefeated at that.

What has been the most difficult part of your career so far?

I've been making music for only a few months, it's just a game for now. It was hard to accept the first criticisms, but they were right because the first tracks were crap. This pushes me every day to improve and write better.

Everyone starts somewhere & the goal is always to get better over time. And finally, are there any last words or things that you have for fans & our readers?

For 2025, the release of "Primo" is scheduled, my second album after "Buffet". It will consist of 15 tracks, which I've already written, and will continue to move towards the hybridization between man and machine. As always, I've written the lyrics myself, and now I'm collaborating with Max Bertoli, a producer from Parma who is taking care of the mastering and mixing of all the tracks, a fantastic job. There are also two tracks created in collaboration with real musicians, a jazz pianist, Maestro Raffaele Ranieri, and an Italian-French beatmaker, Ginola_. #FreePalestine