A Portfolio by Stefan Walczak

Poems of My Past Hardcover Now Available! For those who enjoy a thoughtful exploration of the mind in the form of poetry, my debut poetry collection, Poems of My Past, is now available with full-color artwork in hardcover , and a black and white version in paperback ! This realization is a dream come true and brings my vision full circle, as my original idea for my poetry was to make it as interactive and immersive as possible. It’s a deep collection of existential hope and dread, which after just about a decade, holds up. It is worth a first encounter or a revisit for those who feel the pull of fate and desire toward the inner workings of our universe, our society and culture, and our interpersonal relationships.  Check out Poems of My Past now on Amazon , and be prepared for when my second poetry collection in this series, Poems of Destiny, drops in the near future!

AirdriftSignals Online Music Magazine Soft Relaunch I’ve been preparing a sort of soft relaunch of my online music magazine AirdriftSignals Music Magazine with the release of my 50th Anniversary Analysis and Review of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of The Moon . I learned recently that former member Roger Waters plans to release a remake of this legendary album, titled The Dark Side of The Moon Redux, so I felt that there couldn’t be a more perfect time to do a really in-depth deep-dive into one of the greatest albums of all time.  Check it out and drop a like for my Facebook page or share! I plan to do many more deep dives in the coming months and years. Cheers! https://www.airdriftsignals.com/2023/09/pink-floyd-dark-side-of-the-moon-50th-analysis-and-review.html

  Nowadays, AI is speeding up everything. This post is entirely human, but that can’t be said of others across the web. This forced me to face a somewhat moral dilemma: as time has become more precious and other priorities have overtaken my writing, what if I was able to have a partial assist with AI while still inserting my evergreen content and human experiences? True, this is a quandary faced by scholars the world over already, as AI is becoming increasingly difficult to detect. However, as the technological landscape evolves, should we be held back by our human limits, or should we learn to work alongside AI? As AI begins to operate and translate all manner of operational functions, we as humans  must also operate as the watchers, the guard rails, the gatekeepers, without allowing AI or Chat AI to operate in any singular fashion.  This wasn’t the design of AI, as Skynet or Legion from the Terminator franchise has warned us all along. AI isn’t supposed to be sentient, ...

 Last weekend I went to my local library with my books. Our local library manager Anne remembered me from my poetry reading years ago and was ecstatic that I since released a horror novella with an accompanying original soundtrack. She had me sign my books and was happy to catalogue them and feature in the front as a local author.  In the springtime I will be doing a special presentation of readings with the music for both of these books! It’s exciting to finally be getting back into my writing after landing a secure and rewarding career! Hopefully I’ll see you there if you reside in Connecticut. I’ll be updating my portfolio as a date comes into focus. 

 I released my debut horror novella titled Crimson Sky as a paperback and Kindle edition on Amazon. My local newspaper was kind enough to write a short piece on my release, which details my ambitions in combining two separate mediums of entertainment. Both written fiction and atmospheric music come together in this hybrid work of art, which I designed to be enjoyed all at once! If you don't believe me, try it out for yourself and dive deep into the horrors of my imagination. This story was brewing for many years prior to its release and its interweaving with music was a deliberate choice to create a more immersive and tense reading experience. Its scenes were inspired by instrumental and dark brooding music that I would sometimes listen to as a teenager. My mind would always play a scene or collage of visuals when I listened to music without words. This was my vision put into motion and fully realized as Crimson Sky. Check it out now on Amazon .