Neon signal
Electronic / Synth
A creative AI experiment by Ivan Roche
What happens when you let curiosity lead and AI follow?
By day, I help boards govern AI systems. By evening, I wanted to know what those systems could do with a melody. SynthHarmony is the result: five artist projects, each with its own sound and identity, all born from exploring the creative edge of generative AI. This is not a business. It is a hobby with a heartbeat.
The Projects
Five sonic identities. One experiment. Pick one and press play.
Solar dusk
Ambient / Alternative
Amor Mundi
Signal flare
Alternative / Indie
We are the Alternative
Emerald horizon
Contemporary / Instrumental
Modern Hibernia
Moonlit studio
Singer-Songwriter / Contemporary
Ailish Byrne
The Experiment
What started as curiosity became five albums and counting.
I spend my professional life asking hard questions about AI: what did it know, what did it decide, can anyone prove it? This project asks a different question entirely: what does it sound like when you give AI creative freedom and just listen to what comes back? Each artist project started as a single prompt, a mood, a constraint. The AI handles arrangement and production. I write the lyrics and handle the vision, the curation, and the decisions about what feels right. It turns out that the same instinct that makes you good at questioning AI systems also makes you decent at directing them creatively.
✎ All lyrics written by human hands
Listen
Each project has its own sound, its own mood. Press play and wander.
Artist story
Where the experiment began.
OD8DB was the first project. I wanted to know if AI could produce something that felt genuinely atmospheric, not just technically correct. The answer surprised me. The electronic textures had a weight and mood I was not expecting, and that curiosity started everything else.
Late-night listening
Cinematic textures
Where it all started
Artist story
The one that taught AI to breathe.
Amor Mundi is the opposite of urgency. Built by giving the AI a single instruction: slow down. The result is something I genuinely listen to myself, which is probably the best test of whether it works.
Ambient warmth
Fourteen tracks
Best with headphones
Artist story
The one with attitude.
Every experiment needs a project that pushes back. We are the Alternative is louder, more direct, and more willing to take a wrong turn. That is where some of the most interesting results live.
Bold energy
Two releases
The louder experiment
Artist story
Rooted in place.
Modern Hibernia is the most personal project. Instrumental pieces shaped by Irish landscape, weather, and memory. What happens when you ask AI to compose something that sounds like home.
Irish atmosphere
Instrumental
A sense of place
Artist story
The quiet one.
Ailish Byrne is the project I come back to when I want to hear something that sounds like a person wrote it. Both singles arrived almost fully formed, which tells me something interesting about what AI does when you give it space instead of instructions.
Singer-songwriter
Two singles
Space over instructions
Extended catalogue
Nine more releases to explore.
These releases span the full range of the experiment. Each one started as a different creative prompt, a different mood. Press play on any of them.