Last time,
I wrote about using DistroKid
to prepare my music for distribution.
Just before releasing it,
I realized something important.
— I hadn’t decided on an artist name.
From the beginning,
I knew I didn’t want to use my real name.
In the past, when I made music,
I used the name Maurice Blue.
It was a slight twist on my real name,
and also a tribute to
Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire—
an artist I deeply admired.
But Maurice Blue feels very human.
Writing songs myself.
Singing them myself.
That name belonged to a different kind of creation.
What I was doing now—with AI—felt different.
Thinking back,
there was a time in my youth
when I was mentally exhausted.
I had dreams of music,
but reality was relentless.
I wanted to create.
I wanted to sing.
But to survive,
I had to work.
It was the era of the IT bubble in Japan.
Overtime and all-nighters were normal.
The word “death march” was everywhere.
Someone thin and awkward
who talked about making music
wasn’t exactly valued at work.
I made mistakes.
I got scolded—a lot.
During that time,
I was creating something called blue peace.
Music made in my twenties,
while struggling and not really understanding the world.
But whether it was the workload or something else,
I fell into deep depression
and completely lost the ability to write music.
The dream I burned myself out chasing back then—
was it really something
I should reuse for this project?
Honestly, I hesitated.
In the end, blue peace felt a little too spiritual.
So I changed it to blue piece.
And I wanted to clearly separate this
from Maurice Blue.
This AI-based project felt more like
a creative experiment—
a place to test ideas.
So I added “Lab.”
Bluepiece Lab.
It didn’t sound bad.
I asked ChatGPT for advice, too.
About readability.
About balance.
“Capitalizing the first letters
and adding a dot at the end works well,”
it suggested.
That’s how it became
Bluepiece Lab.
Choosing a name together with AI—
that alone felt very “lab-like.”
I realized then:
we’re teammates in the same experiment.
With the name decided,
I registered the works on DistroKid
under Bluepiece Lab.
First, three songs—
the beginning.
Falling Petals
Blue Carpet
Last Memories
Released as singles.
The next day,
they were there—
properly displayed on Spotify.
Soon after,
the album “Melty” was live as well.
A dream that once felt impossibly distant
when I was younger.
Now, as an adult,
with the help of AI,
I felt like I had finally given
a small answer to that dream.
Next time,
I’ll write about what comes after release:
How do you get people to actually hear your music?
That’s when I started seriously using
Instagram and TikTok.
