What Inspired This New Sound?

Artist Update: Projects in Progress – Zodiac Battles & Aviation ArtMusic

I Made Music On and Off For Years.

And this era began when I started creating original music to accompany my airbrush artwork. From there, the project kept growing, exploring themes like color, art and ideas developing into more; while my journey as a student pilot inspired an entirely separate aviation-themed collection of music. Each project discovers its own sound.

“How long have you been developing your style and creating music like this?”

Truth is, I didn’t start by trying to create a new sound. I started because I wanted music I could use while working on art with my airbrush tool. 

I started because I believed the use of repetition to a beat would help make learning memorable. You almost sing the answers. 

I also started because I had lyrics and poetry waiting to be transformed into music and audio adventures. 

I made music on and off over the years, but the sound you’re hearing now belongs to a much newer era. It began when I needed original music to accompany my airbrush artwork and videos, instead of relying on someone else’s music and potentially blocking the art from being seen. 

From there, the project kept growing. I began exploring themes like color and art. Air and Brush and the several ways to make those words work. Not just an airbrush song. One for artists with brushes of any kind. Colors in the air without need of an artist. With the idea of possibly using these songs for background in the videos, I thought about moods, moments and situations that would fit some of the art pieces that I created for clients. The intention here was to record creating the design requested in a time-lapse form and add music to it. 

That was a warmup for the chakra systems, which eventually evolved into the Zodiac Battle series. My theory was not to put my best work and favorite ideas first. I had to try and experiment with key words and learn how to communicate with systems to achieve what sounds I was looking for. It has all been part of learning. Trial and error. Improve and evolve. I believe Bitcoiners like to use the term “proof of work”.

At the same time, my experiences as a student pilot inspired a completely different collection centered around aviation. Learning, again being a major reason for creating music. In the pursuit of learning how to fly, there were several terminologies I was unfamiliar with. I was having difficulty understanding something new to me and memorizing the vocabulary. I was not trying to make aviation music right away. I was actually creating just an Aviation Phonetic Alphanumeric Code series. So I could memorize them. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee, and Zulu. It helped me learn, and I hope the songs find anyone needing to remember them too. 

I didn’t set out to create one specific genre. There are several sounds I enjoy listening to from many different genres, artists and generations. My playlists and choice of songs for the playlists reflected this. So when creating music, I let each project guide the sound, allowing every album to develop its own personality while still feeling connected to the others. 

One part of that evolution was creating the identity behind the music itself.

Inspired Creative Thinker. There are layers to just my music name alone. From Lexo in the background and featured artist to Makavenna’s project, to becoming an artist to that label, the second ICT member. I started playing with a platform YouDj with the first song I worked on called All About You, from a poetry book I  had written years ago and a song released before my DJ journey began. Since my goal was to mix music, not just rap it, adding DJ to my name seemed fitting. When I started filling out my profile on DistroKid, those decisions would carry on to how my musical alias would appear on  Spotify, YouTube, Boomplay, iHeart, Deezer and more.

Something interesting happened that wasn’t recognized or utilized at first. I was able to transform an existing YouTube account into my official artist profile. My display name on  YouTube was updated to match the DistroKid artist name. However, the handle had to stay the same, since it was an existing account. And the name was @AlexAirbrushLuna. A quiet connection at first.

Name that was developing its own story

As an artist, #AlexAirbrushLuna was a signature I adopted when asked to sign my name on a mural wall I airbrushed. I’m still not big on signing my name on a piece of art, and honestly I’m still not sure how I’d sign a painting today. Maybe using the same signature. 

“The hashtag was added strategically because of social media algorithms, but over time it became more than that. It became part of my artistic identity.” And the identity became a song in my catalog called #AlexAirbrushLuna

As I entered the blogging world, I continued ending my writing with that same signature. Eventually another evolution happened. As my writing increasingly centered around projects like Airbrushes & Airplanes, I naturally began shortening the signature to Alex Air Luna.

Reflecting now, those name changes weren’t marketing decisions as much as milestones marking different stages of the creative journey.

So What Inspired This New Sound?

The inspiration for this new sound started when I airbrushed. I usually get in the zone and flow to the music, atmosphere and energy from the client’s artistic request. I’m not exactly sure when I came to that realization, but it was tied to the moment when I was deciding to make airbrush videos and recording the process of the art. Sometimes the song portrayed the energy. Sometimes it was just background music that went well with the motion. 

The concept of having the music and the artwork speak together in an orchestra of sound and motion to make an Art Music Video. Music and Art tied together. They became one creative experience being recorded and documented. That was how Separate Dreams Become One.

The new sound grew from blending audio and visual art into a single recording session, while celebrating the joy of constantly learning something new. Storytelling naturally became part of the process. Before long, multiple stories began weaving themselves into one. 

“They Always played well together in my head”

The music stopped being background for the artwork. 

It became part of the artwork. 

Originally music was made for videos. Eventually, the music became just as important as the paintings themselves. 

As the music grew, I realized I didn’t need one identity for painting, another for music, and another for writing. The projects weren’t changing.

 I had simply become comfortable letting people experience them together. 

Looking back, I wasn’t simply creating background music anymore.

Each new project seemed to ask for its own sound, its own artwork, and eventually its own story. 

Before long, I wasn’t asking, “What kind of music do I want to make?” 

I was asking something much simpler:

What world do I want to build next?

Once I stopped worrying about whether everything fit neatly into one category, something unexpected happened. 

I simply enjoy making music.

And even today… 

I often ask myself why I keep making music…