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Music in training sets is the new Spotify Wrapped: how genAI uses your music
This has to be peak 2026 music tech. Across every feed, producers I follow are posting the same revelation: they’re finding their own music in training sets used by AI. Investigations by Alex Reisner at The Atlantic are making this more visible — and visceral. And the findings are actually much worse than I think […]
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With Latent Terrain, crack open AI and explore neural synthesis in Max
“I’m not particularly interested in typing prompts to make stuff, I’m interested in breaking them and dissecting them,” writes Jasper Shuoyang Zheng as he introduces Latent Terrain. Now using an intuitive, elegantly designed open-source Max external and UI, you can play the weird world of neural audio codecs like an instrument, transforming your own sounds into new textures.
Peter Kirn - June 17, 2026
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ImagePlot, “vintage” 2010s tool for image visualization, is back, free
“Gramps, tell us the story again!” Well, young’n, before LLMs and generative AI, we were really excited about making big clouds of dots using statistical techniques for visualization. And actually, it’s still cool — and runs free, locally, in your browser. Lev Manovich and team have brought back ImagePlot, and in a moment, it transforms any folder of images into a visualization.
Casio’s expressive guitar strap controller was inspired by a chopstick case
Peter Kirn - January 23, 2026
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Absynth creator Brian Clevinger on synths, emotions, and “weird-ass ideas”
Peter Kirn - December 9, 2025
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Make doodles in Ableton Live, then animate them, with Klottra
Peter Kirn - November 21, 2025
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Roland’s pedal concept uses AI to let you process everything with anything
Peter Kirn - November 12, 2025
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