Wolf Tales - From the Neural Nets of Tomorrow 
David Riordan - Songwriter

My dream as a teenager of becoming a rock and roll musician manifested itself in the late sixties when I recorded my first album and wrote my first songs. That initial journey into storytelling lasted about 10 years before I moved on to film, interactive entertainment and television and web documentaries. Wikipedia 

 

In the early 2000's my music had been put away for years. That’s why after 9-11 I was shocked to get the urge to write and record again. I had no illusions about going back into the music industry. This was just for me.

 

It all started with a dream in which the song “A Thousand Different Towns” came to me almost fully formed. It turned out to be my response to the fallen towers. What followed was rediscovering and rewriting pieces of songs I had never finished over the years. What emerged were more mature personal reflections on parts of my life infused with the memories I had of those moments. I recorded simple demos of the 9-10 songs, with just me and my guitar, to have a record of them. Then I filed them away.

 

I stumbled across them again in early 2023 as I was collecting material for this legacy piece. They reminded me of how much pleasure writing and singing/playing brought me.  

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Then something happened in 2026 which brought about what you are about to listen to. I had moved to Plymouth in the California wine country after completing my political media campaigns for the 2024 election. I had become a board member for the Amador Arts Council. I was beginning to work on a music project when the sound engineer showed me an AI music development platform called SUNO AI. My friend Zack would later dub it "The Architecture of Tomorrow."

 

I used the Suno AI platform to help me create fully developed versions of these songs. This was the first time I had heard many of them actually elevated to record status and in a sense they rebirthed me as a songwriter. It took me back to the magic moments 50+ years ago when I collaborated with other musicians to bring a song to life that I had written. Now I was collaborating with thousands of AI musicians, singers and background singers worldwide. And I had the luxury of re-structuring the songs or writing new lyrics through the Suno AI neural architecture. 

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Some of these performances feature my voice and others are as if I had written those songs for another singer. Both are a blessing.  You can listen to these creations in sequence in the Wolf Tales "playlist" or access the song demos individually in the music players below.