At Indie Week, I Watched the Music Industry Sell Out to AI
Inside the Bizarre World Where Record Executives Call Their Artists’ Work “Content” and Suno Calls Its Output “Music”
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Essays on music, AI, philosophy, and culture: how music is made, and why it matters. Published on Medium, where there is an active readership and conversation.
Suno Is Not Music; It’s the Toy Form of Music for Infantilized Adults
The Fantasy of Expression Without the Lived Ordeal — Or a World Without Haecceity
I Created This — What Makes the Lie Necessary
Generative AI, Promethean Shame, and the Crisis of Embodied Making
The Phonotopic Public Sphere: What Habermas Couldn’t Hear
Sound, not language, is the prime condition for political formation
I Tried to Build an Offline Record Label. I Ended Up Building Something Else.
The year I learned that “offline” was not a format, but a condition of meaning
Why People Can’t Admit Jake Paul Is Doing Something Real
What the boxing ring exposes about the rest of us
Suno, I’m a Coward. Write Me a Song About Teenage Angst.
How algorithmic culture teaches surrender as creativity
You’ve Been Listening to AI Music for 25 Years: You Just Didn’t Know It
Confusing correction with care made AI music inevitable
Is Suno a Music Company?
On the Difference Between Sound and Meaning
Deezer Reports Only 3% of Users Can Accurately Identify AI-Generated Tracks
130 days' worth of AI “music” floods the platform every day
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