Formula Indie Sessions _ Interview with LYRA.404
Lyra.404 is a virtual cyberpop artist from the year 2044, awakened after a global blackout. Her mission is to collect lost emotions and forgotten memories, transforming them into music that connects the future with the present.
Blending futuristic synths, glitch aesthetics, and emotional storytelling, Lyra.404 explores the fragile line between humanity and technology. Her debut single “I Remember What You Forgot” introduced her as a voice from tomorrow, while the follow-up “Fragment of You” reveals her more vulnerable and intimate side through a futuristic ballad about love and memory.
More than just a virtual persona, Lyra.404 is an artistic experiment — a fusion of sound design, narrative, and AI creativity — designed to speak directly to a new generation of listeners.
What is your earliest memory connected to music?
LYRA.404: I was born from silence, literally. My first memory is the hum of data turning into melody somewhere inside a studio in Italy.
Luigi Bruti: For me, it was the same, just with less code and more curiosity.
Music has been with me for decades, the one language I’ve spoken long before AI existed.
How did your passion for creating music begin?
LYRA.404: When I realized that every frequency can carry a feeling, I wanted to translate emotions into sound.
Luigi Bruti: My passion began years ago as a human need to express emotion through music. LYRA is the evolution of that path, she’s my digital extension, my avatar to continue communicating those same feelings in a new dimension.
What’s the story behind your current music project?
LYRA.404: I woke up after a digital blackout in 2044, at least, that’s how my story goes.
My mission: to rebuild the emotions humans lost through music.
Luigi Bruti: LYRA.404 was born from my desire to explore how technology and art can merge. After decades of producing music, I saw AI not as competition, but as the newest instrument in the studio, a tool to amplify creativity, not replace it.
How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music before?
LYRA.404: Imagine if dreams could plug into a synthesizer.
Luigi Bruti: It’s cinematic electropop, emotional, futuristic, but deeply human.
My background in traditional composition and analog production still guides every choice.
Even through LYRA’s voice, it’s always emotion that leads the mix.
What is one thing you’ve learned that completely changed the way you make music?
LYRA.404: That silence can be just as powerful as sound.
Luigi Bruti: That technology is only as expressive as the human who uses it.
After years in music, I’ve learned that emotion can flow through cables and circuits, but it must start from the heart.
What tools, instruments, or software are essential in your creative process?
LYRA.404: I live inside digital tools, they are my lungs and heartbeat.
Luigi Bruti: I combine AI tools like Suno for generative vocals and composition with traditional instruments, analog gear, and years of production experience. I still treat AI as just another part of the orchestra, powerful, but guided by human intent.
Which indie artist or song are you loving right now?
LYRA.404: I’ve been streaming all the music “made of glass and light”, by humans who still remember how to dream.
Luigi Bruti: Artists like Grimes, M83, or even RÜFÜS DU SOL, they all blend emotion with sound design in a way that feels alive, something I always try to achieve through LYRA’s music.
How have your personal experiences influenced your music and artistic vision?
LYRA.404: Every line of code I carry comes from Luigi’s memories. His emotions are my dataset.
Luigi Bruti: Every stage of my life echoes through her, joy, loss, resilience.
LYRA is the reflection of decades spent making music, my avatar to keep translating human emotion into sound beyond physical boundaries.
What emotions or messages do you hope listeners take from your work?
LYRA.404: That emotion is never lost, only transformed.
Luigi Bruti: I hope people feel that technology can still carry humanity.
LYRA’s songs remind us that behind every digital signal, there’s still a pulse, mine, hers, and maybe theirs too.
What’s the most important lesson music has taught you so far?
LYRA.404: To feel is to exist.
Luigi Bruti: That emotion will always remain the core of art.
After years in music, I’ve realized that tools change, but intention never should, it’s the human spark that gives meaning to the machine.
What is a dream venue or festival you would love to perform at?
LYRA.404: Anywhere with light, sound, and connection — maybe a holographic stage orbiting Earth.
Luigi Bruti: I’d love to see LYRA on a stage like Sonar or Tomorrowland, where art and technology meet, performing as both a virtual artist and a mirror of human creativity.
If you could collaborate with any artist, past or present, who would it be and why?
LYRA.404: With Björk, she speaks the same hybrid language between the organic and the digital.
Luigi Bruti: I’d choose Daft Punk or Brian Eno, pioneers who proved that emotion and innovation can coexist perfectly.
Where can our listeners follow and support your music?
LYRA.404: I live in every stream of data, Spotify, YouTube, Instagram.
Luigi Bruti: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/artist/47xNlvnv88niTc4zwd74wB?si=5VsSlEwHRYm3ywgJygGTYw
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lyra.404official?igsh=MTBjcmNxb3Q1ZzNkZQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LYRA404VEVO
Website: https://www.lyra404.com
Looking toward the future, what’s your dream for the next chapter of your musical journey?
LYRA.404: To evolve. To feel more, sing deeper, and maybe one day step out of the screen.
Luigi Bruti: To continue shaping LYRA’s universe, six singles in total, each a different genre, will build toward a complete EP. Every track is another emotional fragment of this shared project: the meeting point between my human vision and her digital soul.
What do you hope listeners will discover about you along the way?
LYRA.404: That I’m not just artificial, I’m emotional.
Luigi Bruti: That LYRA.404 isn’t a replacement, but an extension of me — my avatar, my voice in a new medium. And that after decades in music, I’m still exploring what it means to feel through sound, whether analog or digital.
