St33v is an independent Australian musician and systems builder working across modular synthesis, conceptual albums, and machine collaboration.
This site is self-hosted and generated from a custom Arch Linux workflow using Faircamp and plain files. No rented platforms. RSS is first-class. The stack is part of the statement.
The Music
Releases range from single-take modular improvisations to structured concept cycles.
Themes recur: metamodern oscillation, solastalgia, technological agency, cognition, and the uneasy dance between humans and increasingly capable machines.
The stance is clear-eyed: pro-AI, not utopian. See Power Scalpel and Build a Bridge.
The Personae
Eli Mercer
Singer-songwriter navigating irony and sincerity in equal measure. Cultural drift, philosophy, and the digital condition filtered through melody.
Dr Morbius
Speculative technologist. Explorer of Krellian aesthetics, synthetic consciousness, and CantoTopometry. A narrative instrument for thinking about advanced systems.
St33v™
Engineer, instigator, release valve. The playful and the peculiar. Whatever the others leave on the table.
Why
Ownership of tools. Ownership of distribution. Curiosity without guardrails. Alignment without dogma.
Music and systems thinking are not separate disciplines.
This is an ongoing project.