Art Ward - Musician - Songwriter

Music

I love creating songs, what you hear here are my rough demos, stepping stones, to more refined productions when time and finances permit. I am not genre specific and explore all types of music. Due to the limitations of this website higher resolution copies can only be found on my YouTube Channel -Click Here. If you would like to record / cover my music please get in touch, all work is copyright protected.

'City Day' (Marsha)

Written and recorded to cassette tape in 1991, now preserved, reworked and remastered in a digital format. The video is all prompt generated using an Ai model trained to my own preferences.

"Here comes the summer"

This one dates to 1991 as do the lyrics, a kind of bubblegum song but happy with it. Visuals are all speedily put together as eye candy with an Ai model trained to my specifications.

"Memory Recall"

This was one of those songs left abandoned, one to come back to for one reason or another. Now was the perfect time to bring it back from audio tape into the digital era. A good bit of rework on the tracks. Would be great to redo these old songs in a studio with a good engineer.

'Drop Those Guns''

Song has been revived from the analogue archives, this was written in 1991. it has gone through a major bit of work from the analogue tape version which had some serious degradation causing muffling and dropouts. The stems were all stripped and tracked in Studio One (DAW) for renovation. The video is entirely Ai generated using a trained Ai model, helping to convey the lyrics and sentiment of the song. Considering 35 years have past, the song is unfortunately, still very relevant. Very happy with the result of this one.

"Crosses Burn"

A song which was written in an attic on Causeway Street in 1991, mixed to analogue cassette tape and left until a few weeks ago. Although it was written 35 years ago, the sentiment is still as relevant today. The video is all Ai generated with a preference trained Ai model to convey the song and lyrics. I know there are Ai knockers out there but here is the point with Ai, every image you see came from my imagination which is based on what I have seen and absorbed throughout my life, how accurate they turn out is down to my own ability to describe and translate those into words for binary code.

'L A Clown''

A song was first recorded in 1991 to analogue cassette tape, brought into Studio One where I stripped out the stems and then through the wonders of modern technology was able to get the basic song revived in a digital format, including improved sound quality and a changed tempo and added keys.....much akin to repairing an old photograph, the alchemy of technology. The video is a collection of visuals generated with Ai using a trained model, rather than leaving the screen black screen.

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'Believe Again'

Another song from the analogue cassette tape archive, this was first recorded in 1991. Taken from analogue tape into Studio One Pro and worked on from there. The video is all prompt generated with a trained Ai model, to my own personal preferences.

S"Saint Lazare"

Another 'unheard' song salvaged from analogue cassette tape. The song was originally written and recorded in 1990. Nearly all the songs from this period started out on an acoustic guitar or keyboard (they still do). Fortunately, back then I knew a few musicians as friends who would come over to record and help get these songs into shape.

As a songwriter, my objective with these old songs is to get them recorded in the digital realm as close as I can to the originals, though some will creatively drift away as time has enhanced everything with music and recording opening up possibilities I could only dream about back then.

Nigel and Kevin (two musician friends) both played live in a heavier rock / metal genre but through these early pieces weaved some beautiful guitar rhythms and melodies without these the lyrics would still be floating around my head with an acoustic guitar accompanying them and that would be useless.

The video is a total overdose of prompt generated visuals using a trained Ai model. As you can imagine with so much visual time to fill and loads of songs to bring back to life, I find this technology invaluable. Hopefully there will be breathers to express more in the visual story dimension.

'Exiled in Flight'

I am continuing to bring some old unheard songs back into the digital era. This is another song first recorded to cassette tape (Lots of dropouts due to oxidation). It was re-recorded in Studio One 7 Pro (Now Fender Studio Pro). The song from circa 1990 relates to censorship back in the late 1800s and early 1900s when many artists were forced to leave the country for expressing enlightened views that challenged the status quo of the state.

When these recording were done a couple of musician friends (Nigel Smith and Kevin Walker) contributed creatively to their development and without that input many of these old songs would have never seen the light of day.

The video is a collection of Ai generated visuals, live studio recording and some photographs, All meshed together in Davinci Resolve. Ai still has a way to go but it is improving all the time for what I need it for.

'Ballycastle Rouge Revised'

I wrote this in 2023 and posted it then as an acoustic tune. I have taken it back into the DAW and reworked it, tuned it up a bit and added some production skills I have learnt over the past couple of years. All video is footage off my phone or camera images taken over the past few years...

'Carey Morning (Leather Jacket)

A song that was first recorded to audio tape in 1989 after the death of a close friend who was musician, it was recorded as a raw acoustic/drum idea with lyrics but never finished. Like many song ideas I leave aside for another day, this one lay for thirty six years. I started out to recreate it but somewhere along the creative path it took a radical turn away from that in genre and also the use, (some will say overuse) of effects but having said that it retains the essence and sentiment of the original song. I love my old analogue synth sounds, the more I use them, the more I love them. The video was in part Ai generated, mixed with my own footage and photographs. Recorded in Studio One 7 Pro, Edited DaVinci Resolve 20 Studio.

'Last High'

A song recorded in 2022, now reworked closer to where I wanted it to be. The motivation for the song came after watching a disturbing documentary on drug addiction in young people and of one eighteen year old who died in destitution from a Fentanyl /Xylazine overdose. We (governments) can spend trillions of dollars on war and reap billions from the sale of weapons, yet cannot solve the simple social curse of homelessness and drug abuse in the under 18s. The video is all Ai generated apart from the screen footage of my DAW. Recorded in Studio One 7 Pro , edited in Davinci Resolve 20 Studio.

'Going Wild'

A change of title and style with this one, it was posted way back. I felt felt like bringing it up to the moment. The original version can be found on this page if you scroll down ('Nothing Will Be The Same'). This version is, in my opinion, way better, if only for the five years of experience in-between. The video is all prompt generated by an AI bot which is trained to my personal preferences including on my own graphics, photographs and artwork. Technology is incredible if used for creative purposes and the benefit of humanity.

'See You There'

I wrote this song and posted it over three years ago, it was originally recorded with a kind of country rock feel. Anyway, time moves on and I decided to ramp it up into a more rocky sound, and here we are. If you look back through the songs posted here you will find the original.

The video is all prompt generated by a personalized AI model, some video reels are from still images while others are from text, after a lot of editing and layering I ended up with what you see here

'Fields of Craiganee'

A wee song inspired from the townlands around where I live.

'Another Way To Run'

Art Ward @ 2025

This one started out with a very simple acoustic guitar strum, the lyrics came as they are (one of the magical things that sometimes happens when creating a song) probably means nothing to anyone but I like them. It can take days to get lyrics together; these were bursting to get out.

I then tracked to Studio One 7 Pro, programmed drums and bass, balanced the sub mix with some effects, then finished the dressing and final mix of the with the alchemist. Some obvious mistakes on my part but hey!......it’s just a demo. Any solid producer out there with some fine musicians could take this to another level for sure. Video is all prompt generated from my imagination.

'Over Me'

Art Ward @ 2025

This one had the acoustic, drums, bass and vox tracked in studio one and mixed down, then engaged with AI to finish off the song including the final mix. Technology is wonderful. The video was all prompt generated from ideas, video is still a bit iffy in places but the technology is improving as time passes. Can you ever have imagined doing all this even ten years ago......it would have been financially out of reach.

' Spanish Green'

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