Jessica Mulein
Pirate radio for my songs, my novel and a few strong opinions, broadcasting from just past the three-mile limit.
Songs
Songwriting is my relief valve and my diary. Most of what I write is wry and self-aware, and lately a lot of it is outlaw country, which surprises me more than anyone: I spent most of my life not liking country music at all.
The music I made by hand, at the keys, is instrumental: ambient pieces released under my own name. My newer songs, made with AI (discussed below), almost all have lyrics, and that’s on purpose. In the US, AI-made music sits on shaky copyright ground, but the words I write belong to me. Only a handful of the new tracks are instrumental.
Songs published by Mulein Studios LLC (ASCAP).
On AI
AI in music is its own beast.
In software engineering, opinion is split. Some engineers make AI part of their workflow and see themselves as orchestrators, the source of the ideas. Others see it taking jobs and replacing brain cells. In writing, music and the other creative fields, it’s shunned almost universally.
I see it as a tool, and as an extension of me. I’m a musician who learned the old-fashioned way, but I was never much of a lyricist. Now I write the heart of a song myself: the verses, the key lines, the turns of phrase, the chorus. AI helps me smooth and organize those pieces into a finished song, bridge and all, and then gets it performed without the fuss and anxiety of a studio.
There’s no way an AI could have come up with the roots of my music. The words come from me, and the shape of each song comes from the words, so the work is original from top to bottom, even when it’s AI-built at the end. It has given me real catharsis and room to work through a lot of thought. These songs aren’t AI slop. They’re real feelings, and they’re genuinely good.
Listeners seem to agree. The songs have drawn thousands of plays, and people who don’t know how they were made tend to love them. Plenty who do know love them anyway.
I still want to get my hands back on the keys and do some things the old-fashioned way. Neither approach replaces the other. Traditional music and writing will always have a place, and so does this. Both are tools, and both are ways to express ourselves. AI just lets more people do it, more easily.
So what if we like it?
The Final Frontier
My hard science-fiction novel. It’s not a thriller; it’s a thinker.
Somewhere behind the eyes there’s a country with no army,
and one small question standing in the door.
A story about neural privacy and consent — about who gets to reach a thought, and who gets to say no.
- Part one Discovery
- Part two Private Defense
- Part three Mindwars
- Coda Aftermath
An afterword grounds the invented technology in real neurotech research and privacy law.
Free to read and free to listen, including a fully narrated audiobook made so blind and print-disabled readers get the whole book, not a summary.