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SOMADAYLESS — A Human Word Made Audible Through AI
By P.Peeva · BG
SOMADAYLESS — A Human Word Made Audible Through AI What do we leave behind when we keep saying “someday”? A phone call. An apology. A declaration of love. A decision. A life we keep postponing because we assume there will always be more time. SOMADAYLESS began with that question, not with music. I created the word SOMADAYLESS to name a choice that did not have a word yet: the conscious decision to leave fewer important things for an uncertain “someday.” It is not a misspelling, a stylised title, or a phrase generated by a machine. It is a word I made because I needed language for a human behaviour I kept recognising around me. Only later did the word become a song. I wrote the lyrics and built the emotional architecture around one uncomfortable idea: we often behave as if time is guaranteed. We postpone the people we love, the words we mean, the calls we know we should make. “Someday” sounds harmless because it does not sound like refusal. But sometimes postponement is the decision. That became the core of SOMADAYLESS: Live while you’re still alive. Love them while they’re still here. The work then entered a second territory: authorship in the age of generative AI. I am not a traditional singer arriving through the conventional route into music. I came through writing. I had words, concepts, structure and emotional direction before I had a way to make them audible. Generative technology became that bridge. AI was used in the production process and in the creation of the vocals. But the machine did not decide what this work needed to say. It did not create the word SOMADAYLESS. It did not decide what to keep, what to reject, what emotional temperature the song required, what meaning the title carried, or why this project needed to exist. Those decisions were human. That distinction is central to the work itself. SOMADAYLESS is therefore not only a song. It is also a question about contemporary authorship: If a machine can generate sound, where does the human author remain? For me, the answer is not in pretending the machine was absent. It is in identifying exactly where the human intention lives. It lives in the original word. In the reason for creating it. In the lyrics. In the concept. In the emotional structure. In the rejection of outputs that said the wrong thing. In the selection of those that moved the work closer to its intended meaning. In the final decision that this — and not another version — was the work. I disclose the use of generative AI openly because hiding the process would weaken the very question the project is asking. The origin, definition and authorship of the word SOMADAYLESS have been formally documented through a permanent Zenodo record: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22829872. The music project has also been independently classified by The Sonic Intelligence Academy (SIQA) as HUMAN+AI HYBRID. But those records are evidence, not the point. The point is simpler. Technology can generate millions of possible sounds. It still cannot decide which unfinished conversation in a human life matters. It cannot miss someone. It cannot regret waiting too long. It cannot understand why one word needs to exist and another does not. A machine helped me make SOMADAYLESS audible. The reason for making it remained entirely human.
- Category
- CONCEPTS MIXED MEDIA
- Approved
- 9 October 2026
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