The Melody Desk:

A Collection of My Virtual Artists' Music

Dive into 30 years of the catalogue of songs by solo "artists" and "bands" created by Chris Gallatin, first via MIDI, then loops and now via Suno.ai

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Behind The Music

What possessed me to create this Website?

The Need To Be Heard.

I've always been musical, singing my first "song" into a cassette recorder at age 6 in the dining room of my parents house. From there, I had the chance to temporarily master the drumset my sister Shelly's boyfriend left behind when they split up. I rocked on that rig, till my parents decided a full drum set next to their bedroom was too loud.

Whatever.

Together, with several kids on my street in Denver, CO, I was in my first band at the age of 10. It actually allowed a young kid to start turning his skills into becoming an internationally recognized recording artist, saxophonist Paul Taylor. I could tell he was going to be big even then.

In junior high school, I learned to play guitar, despite my dad buying me arguably the worst electric guitar ever assembled. (1/4" space between the neck and the strings.. Painful to play, lol.)

Then, it was singing competitively in high school concert choir and madrigals.

In college, it was singing in 3 different garage bands. We never got very far. We just did covers of Zeppelin, Gentle Giant, The Who and Lynyrd Skynyrd. No originals.

Whatever.

After college, I got my first synthesizer; a Casio CZ-101. The size of a couple laptops, it had 101 sounds it could make. It blew my mind. 1986 was the year I started composing music, with an Atari 1040-ST computer, a Yamaha synth module and an Ensoniq VFX I bought second-hand from Van Halen's stand-in keyboardist, the late Brett Tuggle. He had some great advice for me:

"Just keep going."

So I did. From 1987 to now, I have composed over 500 songs, without ever taking any formal musical instruction after 8th grade. I joined long-time friend Ben Satory's band "Last One Standing" for a couple years in the late 2000's as a bass player. So you see? I've played drums, bass, guitar, piano and sang. But who heard the music?? Just a small handful of people. Till now.

This website contains my the final versions of songs I have worked on since 1987, in various ways. With the amazing power of suno.ai, I can upload my original recordings and have suno finally add the missing piece: professional vocals, and professional-level instrumentation.

97% of everything you hear on this site:

My Lyrics
My Melodies
My Arrangements

What's Not Me?

The AI takes my compositions, and embellishes them a bit, adding better sounding guitars, pianos, basses and drums than I had available through the years. Imagine recording onto cassette tapes... or just generic MIDI instruments that sound like 1983?

And the vocals? Much better! Enjoy!

Composing... What's that look like? For example, it might look like the paragraph below, AFTER I supply a song I already composed years or days ago...

So, in the 90's, it was MIDI. From 2000-2025, it was loops. Now? AI.

Here's an example of a Before/After:

My original song composed of my loops, loops created using my Black Box effects box with a guitar.

The final AI-enhanced song.

I told the AI: modern rock; earnest male vocal;no crash cymbals;dry mix;calm vocal delivery; arpeggio electric guitar;no guitar solos

Another example of how complex the prompting can be:

Style: brooding synth-funk meets minimalist alt-pop Instruments: analog synth pads, gated snares, clean electric guitar, syncopated bassline, drum machine Mood: cool, detached, and rhythmically hypnotic Vocal: baritone male, dry and deliberate, minimal harmony Structure: verse-chorus with instrumental bridge, 90s-style stereo mix Avoid I–V–vi–IV or looped pop progressions, Use irregular, tension-based chords with unexpected changes and modal shifts.