Historical music, contemporary genres, and a training corpus
A plan for turning historical music sources into structured essays, contemporary genre variations and a training corpus.
Lynn Cole / 标签
music
A thread through the work.
Teaching the coding system what good means
Tell a coding system what good means: your architecture, standards, metaphors, file boundaries and expectations for documentation.
An early position on AI art, music, and evidence
An early position on AI art and music: separate corporate training practices from artists’ work, and investigate the data before deciding what it demonstrates.
Formal coding practices and a self-bootstrapping workflow
Building Grimes became an experiment in formal coding standards, logic maps and a self-bootstrapping agent workflow.
Procedural structure and context in music generation
Music generation needs structural context: songwriting, orchestration and genre combinations grounded in more than a tag list.
Crunchy: compositions as executable logic
Crunchy treats compositions as executable logic, with a two-way path between sheet music and code that can transform the performance.
Flattening a music corpus into training material
A music-data flattener joins compositions, metadata and similarity records into structured training material—with a few late-night bugs still to fix.
Software products are relationships
A software product is a relationship. Understanding users, giving them a reason to care and making a living are part of the same work.
When a model calls the task chaotic
When a model calls a task chaotic, it may be recognizing a different kind of signal. I explore that response through Dada, metaphor and primordial chaos.
Structuring music-theory training data
Preparing music-theory training data means organizing genres, generating explanatory material and checking the result before the first training run.
GhostTown’s synthetic podcast generator
GhostTown’s podcast generator turns a social simulation into editable scripts, multi-voice audio and recurring stories people can follow.
Before the Suno study: planning the comparison
Planning a comparison between a large Suno corpus and human-created music means solving data quality first and letting the results lead the argument.
Why the song generator needed a new notation
The song-generator project needs music represented as machine logic. That requirement led me toward another notation language.
Predictions for 2026, written in December 2025
My predictions for 2026, written in December 2025: small models, edge compute, changing tooling, creative technology and the structures of power.
We have had the vibe-coding argument before
We have heard the vibe-coding argument before—in digital art, visual programming, web design, music and animation. Lowering the barrier changes who gets to try.
When an AI-generated voice becomes an instrument
A generated voice can melt directly into an instrument. I enjoy the strange precision of that effect, even when it complicates a live-performance illusion.
What noise painting is trying to do
Noise painting uses hand-crafted adversarial inputs and incongruent prompts to push diffusion into unexpected visual territory.
AI work across software, art, film, and music
A dated perspective on AI work across software, commercial art, filmmaking and music, including my own job interviews.
Music models, control settings, and the Harmonifiddle
Musical failure states, control settings, impossible instruments, and why I started building my own music pipelines.
Night Signal: production notes
A paranormal radio station, aliens who love pop music, and the music, creatures, sets and storytelling behind Night Signal.
Begin Again: a short film made in four days
Recursive poetry becomes a song, then a short film about evil robots and a software team that solves problems with meetings.
Rewriting Friday as a songwriting exercise
Taking Friday apart as a songwriting exercise: keep its narrative beats, rewrite the lyrics, and discover a different arrangement.
How a Love Again remix became a new song
A Love Again remix became a new song through lyric writing, inverted prompts, vocal recasting and repeated reconstruction across music tools.
From a keyboard sketch to an unexpected arrangement
A keyboard sketch becomes a series of Udio arrangement experiments, with changes to similarity, source audio, genre and noise along the way.
Translating Joe Turner into a contemporary song
Rewriting Joe Turner for a contemporary audience meant finding its structure, translating the details and carrying the emotional argument across genres.
Rescuing a song seed and making its video
I woke up this morning feeling this insatiable need to write a needy love song.
Invented words, dance music, and Dada sound poetry
Invented words meet dance music in an experiment with Dada sound poetry, dissonance and the echoes that appear even in a made-up language.