Circuit Culture
Electric Aria • December 2025
How technology shapes modern social behavior and identity performance. An exploration of what it means to be human right now—trying to connect, exist, and be seen in an age where circuits mediate everything.
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Being Human Right Now
This album isn't really about technology. It's about being human in 2025—trying to connect, trying to exist, trying to be seen. Technology just happens to be the medium through which we're experiencing these ancient struggles right now.
Bullying has always existed. But now it happens through screens, leaving digital footprints that compound the trauma. Artists have always struggled to be heard above the noise. But now the noise is algorithmic, and visibility requires dancing to patterns you didn't choose. We've always wasted time avoiding hard things. But now the avoidance is infinitely scrollable, perfectly optimized to keep us engaged.
These songs examine what it feels like to live right now. Not from a distance, not as observation—from inside the experience. I'm the bullied kid carrying invisible scars decades later. I'm the artist screaming into an algorithmic void, refusing to compromise but wondering if anyone hears. I'm the person at 3 AM promising "just five minutes" while potential slips away. I'm trying to navigate social rules that shift faster than I can learn them.
Circuit culture shapes how we perform identity, how we seek connection, how we measure worth. But underneath the digital mediation, we're still just humans trying to protect ourselves, be authentic, find meaning, and be seen. Same struggles, different backdrop.
The Sound of Modern Life
Dark electronic pop felt right for these themes—sharp beats, pulsing bass, digital chimes twisted into melodies. The production emphasizes the mechanical aspects of how we live now: notification sounds as rhythm, glitch effects as emotional texture, the clean precision of automated systems.
Some tracks use theatrical vocal delivery, playing with character and perspective. "The Hunter" and "The Haunted" required different voices—the confident swagger of the bully versus the raw vulnerability of lasting trauma. "What's Woke?" needed comedy, bewilderment, a confused alien trying to understand our moment. Each song finds its own sonic space for the specific human experience it's exploring.
The tempo ranges from hypnotic 92 BPM ("The Haunted," carrying weight) to frenetic 135 BPM ("Rate Everything!," manic energy), but most settle around 98-110 BPM—the pace of modern anxiety, neither calm nor chaotic. Somewhere in between, where most of us actually live.
Living the Contradictions
What makes this moment strange is how we're all performing and authentic simultaneously. Curating feeds while seeking real connection. Addicted to validation while knowing it's hollow. Criticizing systems we actively participate in. The album doesn't resolve these tensions—it inhabits them.
I wrote "Time Thief" while being the time thief, scrolling at 3 AM instead of sleeping. "Into The Void" came from genuinely wondering if anyone would hear it, screaming anyway because the alternative is silence. "The Haunted" explores trauma I still carry, trying to understand why some scars don't show but never fade.
These aren't songs about other people's problems. They're examinations of what it feels like to be alive right now, trying to navigate connection and isolation, visibility and authenticity, time and potential, belonging and individuality—all mediated through circuits that shape us as we shape them.
Deeper Explorations
Some experiences require more space to understand. Click to explore the stories behind four tracks that examine what it means to be human right now.
The Songs
Circuit Culture
Title track establishing how technology shapes modern social behavior and identity performance in our connected age.
Fashion Statement
Clothing as silent language, navigating social codes while trying to express authentic self through fabric and form.
The Hunter
Cyberbully perspective—the power, the lack of consequences, the satisfaction of making someone small from behind a screen.
The Haunted
Twenty years later, the bullying victim carries invisible scars. Time doesn't heal everything, and some wounds never show.
Time Thief
Digital procrastination stealing potential. The 3 AM scroll, the "just five minutes" lie, the shame of wasted time.
Time's Echo (Ripples)
Managing past, present, and future selves through temporal reflection. Three versions of you, all real, all connected.
Dear Me
Letter across time to past and future selves. Gratitude for what younger you survived, hope for who you'll become.
Crystal Screens
Performing perfect lives through social media. Every post a mask, every like a hollow validation, trading truth for profile.
Time Zone Melancholy
Long-distance digital relationships. Technology bridges physical gaps while creating new forms of beautiful loneliness.
What's Woke?
Cultural confusion and rapidly changing social rules. Trying to navigate 2025 like a confused alien just waking up.
Rate Everything!
Review culture obsession. Can't just experience life—must quantify, rate, and rank every moment for public consumption.
Too Much Data
Information overload and digital overwhelm. Sensory experience of too much input, too fast, with no way to process.
Pay-to-Play
Identity politics as gamification. Competing victim and privilege scores in a game where winning means losing.
Skip It!
Ad-blocking culture and resistance to commercial manipulation. Maintaining autonomy in attention economy.
Like & Subscribe
Creator economy pressures. Authenticity versus algorithm optimization, performing life for metrics.
Touch Grass
Online wellness culture criticism. Toxic positivity in digital spaces, the paradox of seeking healing through screens.
Into The Void
Feeling unheard in oversaturated digital landscape. Refusing to dance their dance but heartbroken by the silence.
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