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Generation Simulation(also referred to as 'Gensim') is an American musical trio from Austin, Texas. The band was formed in the early months 2021 by lead vocalist Jackson Gruber alongside Tyler Gescheidle. In October of 2021 the band welcomed their third member, Emory Trevino in to the band as the lead guitarist. In march of 2021 the trio released their debut single "Down" which resembled self reflective lyrics over an alt-pop style instrumental. The trio followed the release of "Down" with the release of a three song EP called "The Light Switch EP"(2021) On October 5th of 2021, Generation Simulation released their debut album, Fluorescent(2021), The record contained twelve songs which the trio had produced in Jack Gruber's home studio in Pflugerville, Texas. In late 2021, the band released another single titled "Great Day Anthem" followed by "The Sand" in February of 2022.

Formation and Fluorescent Album
Jack Gruber first met Tyler Gescheidle in the year 2021 on a social media thread. The thread was based around connecting local musicians in the Austin Texas area. Jack Gruber at the time was experimenting with producing and releasing music under his own name and wanted to find a drummer to play live music with him. Jack Gruber put out a post on the thread asking for a local contract drummer to which Tyler Gescheidle responded to. Gruber and Gescheidle would meet weekly to practice Gruber's songs and would spend their down time producing music together. Gruber had shown Gescheidle a song he was working on titled "Afraid of Heights" which Gescheidle voluntarily recorded electronic drums over. The "Afraid of Heights" demo was later renamed "Down" which would go on to become the band's debut single. Following Tyler Gescheidle's musical contributions, Jack Gruber suggested that they start a band together. Gescheidle initially rejected the proposal to start a band with Gruber because of the age gap but was talked into joining by Gruber.

Jack Gruber and Tyler Gescheidle first settled on the name Generation Simulation when Gescheidle made the humorous observation that the two members had an age difference of precisely ten years. The 'Simulation' part of the name was put in place simply because the word rhymed with 'Generation'.

Generation Simulation played their first concert as a duo at a wine distillery in Dripping Springs, Texas on April 10, 2021.

Jack Gruber and Tyler Gescheidle were producing songs for the band at Jack's makeshift home studio in Pflugerville Texas where Gescheidle had set up an electronic drum kit in the corner of the room as the duo had no way of recording a real drum kit in the early months of the band. Gruber had a knowledge of music production and sound engineering as he had started dabbling with music production in late 2016. Following the March release of their debut single, "Down", Gruber and Gescheidle began work on "The Lightswitch EP" which they had released in mid April along side a music video for the song "Landscape" off the EP. The music video had been filmed in Gescheidle's living room with a camera Gruber had borrowed from his Audio visual class.

Jackson Gruber met his future bandmate Emory Trevino in Early September of 2021. Gruber and Trevino met in high school choir class. Gruber reportedly overheard Emory Trevino talking about guitar after class where Gruber asked Trevino if he would like to record a song after school. Jack Gruber and Emory Trevino wrote a collection of satirical songs based on their choir class. Jack Gruber invited Emory Trevino to feature on guitar briefly at one of Generation Simulation's shows. Gescheidle and Gruber believed his performance to be breathtaking and invited Trevino to play guitar at a few more shows before inviting him in to the band officially in mid October.

The first song Emory Trevino was featured in for Generation Simulation was the song, "Junior Year" off of the full length album "Fluorescent"(2021). The track featured a guitar solo which Trevino had improvised and recorded with Gruber.

Influences and Musical Style
The trio likes to define their musical style and genre as "Anything we hear and like mashed in to one alternative super song". The band members' musical taste. When Jack Gruber was four years old, his parents purchased him an mp3 player alongside a pair of headphones. Gruber's father had copied a massive library of music on to the player. Gruber was constantly listening to artists such as Green Day, Coldplay, Fall Out Boy, and many other other booming artists from the 90's and early 2000's. Through elementary school, Gruber would take a liking to music class where he was exposed to multi-cultural music. In mid 2014, Jack Gruber's father became an avid listener of alternative bands such as "Twenty One Pilots" and "Imagine Dragons" which would introduce Gruber to the world of modern alternative music. In late 2016, Gruber and his family would move to Boston Massachusetts. It was in Boston that Gruber became invested in the local music scene where he would constantly be attending the concerts of local bands. In 2017, Gruber formed a band with drummer/guitarist/producer Colin Skillins who would introduce Gruber to the indie genre. In 2019, Gruber and his family relocated to Corpus Christi, Texas where Gruber would meet Producer, Josue Lozano. Lozano introduced Gruber to the electronic dance music(EDM) genre which Gruber would also add to his repertoire of musical influences.

Tyler Gescheidle having been born in 1994, was raised in the 90's and spent his teen years consuming music trending in the early 2000's. Gescheidle has stated that he really liked drumming to hip hop artist's and alternative music in his teen years. Gescheidle has specified his deep respect for Alternative/Emo band "My Chemical Romance". Before Gescheidle joined Generation Simulation, he was the lead drummer for the Alt-pop band "Demi the Daredevil" which familiarized Gescheidle with modern alternative music.

Emory Trevino was very neutral about music until he picked up the guitar in early 2020. In Trevino's search for guitar playing techniques, he quickly fell in love with bands such as "Pink Floyd", "Led Zeppelin", "Rush", "Jimi Hendrix", and many more classic rock musicians. When Emory met bandmate Jack Gruber in mid 2021, he was introduced to alternative music which Gruber would play around him. Trevino really took a liking to the band "Half Alive" in early 2022 when Gruber invited him to see one of their concerts.

Lyrical Themes
Jack Gruber typically writes lyrics that dive into themes of depression and disorder. Gruber has described how he writes songs to better express feelings and thoughts that he would otherwise not know how to communicate in normal conversation. Gruber describes the process of writing a song as creating the instrumental that best embodies the thoughts he's trying to convey. Gruber than writes the lyrics over the instrumental which is meant to further capture the feeling which he's trying to convey. Jack Gruber has described his lyricism as an overdramatic communication of the way he feels through both narrative and analogical form. The lyrical content can often be very vague and self aware as Gruber intends for the music to be a coping mechanism for himself but also anybody else who may need it. Jack Gruber also uses lyricism as a way to vent introspective thoughts which he finds hard to communicate or speak out in any other way than in music creation. Jack Gruber describes the band's overall theme as "Recognizing that we have problems, and gaining a hopeful perspective on them"

Band Members

 * Jackson Gruber - Lead Vocals, Piano, Programming, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Ukulele, Percussion, Mixing, Mastering
 * Tyler Gescheidle - Drums, Percussion, Guitar
 * Emory Trevino - Guitar, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Percussion.