This year, I spent an entire year making music with AI.
As a result, I’m releasing an album titled Falling Petals on November 30.
It’s a future I couldn’t have imagined at all a year ago.
Back then, everything was unfamiliar.
How AI composition worked, how music distribution flowed—
even the names of the services were mostly unknown to me.
Looking back, though, this past year feels less like a period of “learning”
and more like a time when my distance from music itself changed dramatically.
Music had always been close to me.
Since I was young, I wrote songs and sang them myself.
I loved ’70s soul and funk, and even while working full-time,
I joined jam sessions or made tracks in GarageBand during my commute.
But it was firmly within the realm of a hobby.
I loved music, but it wasn’t the center of my life.
That was the distance I kept.
I never imagined that it would turn into a year
where I’d be this deeply immersed in creating.
I had actually created a Suno AI account once the year before.
But I didn’t really start using it seriously until February 2025.
“I’ll really try this properly,”
I thought as I opened it—back when the version was Suno v3.
The first track I made was an instrumental called
“Feeling in the Night.”
A smooth jazz piece led by guitar.
Mature and sensual, yet carrying a subtle,
almost Middle Eastern, exotic atmosphere.
Honestly, it shocked me.
I liked it so much that I downloaded it immediately,
put it on my iPhone, and listened to it over and over again.
Later, this track would gain lyrics
and become a song called “Buddha.”
But at that moment, I had no idea that future was coming.
On the free plan, you could generate up to five songs per day.
Even that limitation felt fun at the time.
I’d wake up in the morning and generate tracks right away.
If something good came out, I’d add it to my iPhone and put it in a playlist.
The sounds I loved—
’70s soul and disco,
’80s AOR and fusion vibes—
kept appearing one after another.
I named the playlist “Melty.”
Eventually, “Melty 2” followed,
and about twenty tracks lined up between them.
“Milk”
“Smooth Groovin”
“Funky Drive”
“Pop Colors”
Even now, I think they’re genuinely good songs.
Later, lyrics would be added,
and they’d take shape as the album Melty.
At that time, it was simply fun.
When a good track came out, I was purely happy.
I wasn’t playing it for anyone.
I wasn’t thinking about evaluation or judgment.
I just enjoyed the fact that music was increasing.
But eventually, a moment arrived
when that feeling began to shift.
Encountering one particular song
turned what had been “play”
into something I truly faced.
That moment led me to start paying for Suno AI,
and it became the real beginning of this past year.
I’ll write about that next time.
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