Imogen Hale
Imogen Hale reports on the business side of AI music — licensing terms, royalties, and copyright — reading the fine print so working creators don't get burned.
The Italy Music Market Runs on a Belief Most Executives Never Checked
Sit in enough release-strategy meetings about Italy and you will hear the same sentence, said with the confidence of settled fact: it is a melodic market, a legacy market, a place that loves its…
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Suno Review: The Fastest Path to a Vocal-Led Song, and What It Costs You
A 2:40 pop track turned up on my desktop one morning before I'd finished the first coffee: a real verse, a real pre-chorus, a hook that landed on the downbeat and a vocal that sat where a vocal should…
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Spotify Direct Uploads and the Quiet Math of Cross-Platform Release
A release strategist I trade notes with sent me a screenshot last spring: a track that had been sitting flat at a few hundred monthly listeners, then a vertical line the day she posted a thirty-second…
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AI Music Generation Won't Hand You Usable Stems — Here's What It Actually Does
Last month I dropped a generated track into a session for a puzzle game — 92 BPM, A minor, the brief was "warm lo-fi with a brushed kick and a Rhodes that doesn't get in the way." The full mix sounded…
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Can You Run AI Music Generation Locally for a Live DJ Set? Magenta, Stable Audio, and an FLX4 on the Desk
You turn the filter knob on the FLX4, and there's a beat — not a musical one, a dead one — before the audio answers. Three hundred milliseconds, maybe four hundred. In a studio that's nothing.
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AI Voice Technology and the Money You Haven't Spent Yet
A product person I know described her company's budgeting app to me like this: "We've basically solved impulse spending.
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AI Music Generation Isn't Your Real Problem — The Algorithm Quietly Sorting You Is
There's a number that's been doing the rounds in label Slacks and producer Discords, and it goes something like this: somewhere around 40-something percent of tracks uploaded to streaming platforms in…
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Infinite Reality and the Unified Stack: What AI Video Generation Actually Costs an Enterprise Content Team
A localization vendor once handed me a batch of 14 product videos two days before a multi-market launch. The English master looked clean.
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AI Music Licensing Solved the Input Problem. Streaming Fraud Is the Bill Coming Due.
A licensing deal between a publishers' trade body and an AI music company lands as a headline, and the headline reads like a ceasefire.
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