THE PROCESS
How a Hallowed Sky song is made
I don't play every note. I direct every second. Here are the five steps, following one song from the first verse to the final mix: I Was the Thief.
The spark
It starts with a spark: a biblical passage, a theological thread, or a life experience. That becomes the seed of a song.
I Was the Thief is anchored in Luke 23:32-43.
The words
I collaborate with a custom GPT assistant I built, wrestling with lyrical drafts until the message is true, scripturally sound, and hits with emotional weight.
And Jesus, my ransom, remembered the thief.
Drafts shown as shapes
The raw stone
I feed those lyrics and a chosen musical style into an AI music generation platform. It returns a spectrum of musical sections, sometimes hundreds of samples per track.
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The carving
I curate and dissect these fragments like a sculptor selecting marble. I stitch, rearrange, remix, and structure them into a cohesive song in Logic Pro.
The surgery
Then comes the audio surgery: EQ, leveling, fine-tuning, balancing frequencies, cleaning muddiness, preserving punch. The generated audio isn't plug-and-play. It's raw ore. I refine it until it shines.
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The AI gives me stone. I do the carving.
Machine-assisted, human-shaped, and Spirit-led. This isn't click-and-post music. It's a highly curated, labor-intensive process, one that still leaves room for the Holy Spirit to move.
