Juno Park
Juno Park covers AI sound design and game audio workflows — foley, loops, and middleware — after seven years cutting assets for mobile and indie titles.
AI Music Labeling Arrives — Now Comes the Hard Part of Making It Mean Anything
Open your DAW, drop in an AI-generated bass loop at 92 BPM, run it through a hardware compressor, replay the melody by hand because the render came out mushy, then resample the whole thing and chop…
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AI Music Labeling Sounds Simple. The Detection Under It Isn't.
A distributor I know got a takedown-adjacent question from a platform last quarter: prove this catalog of 400 tracks is human-made. Not "confirm you hold the rights" — that they could do.
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The Rolling Stones Went to Roblox: What Legacy Acts Are Actually Buying in Virtual Worlds
Start with the number, because the number is the whole press release. When a heritage act plants a flag in a virtual world, the figure that lands in the trade write-up is almost always the same shape…
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Gen-Z Audience Demographics Live in Gaming, Not Just Streaming — Here's the Map
A label strategist told me last spring that her whole Gen-Z plan was a spreadsheet of playlist editors. Pitch the editor, land the placement, ride the skip-rate. That was the plan.
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AI Music Policy Is Being Written Around One Number, and You Should Know What It Doesn't Measure
A distributor made headlines when it said something like a third of the tracks arriving through its pipe each day were AI-generated.
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One Song Should Ship as Twelve Videos: AI Music Video Generators and the New Math of Release
Your song is finished. That was the easy part. I know that sounds backwards. You spent three weeks on the mix, chased the low end through four revisions, finally got the vocal to sit.
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AI Music Generation and Master Rights: What You Actually Own When the Model Sings a Gamelan
Last month I fed a generator a four-bar phrase built around an interlocking kulintang-style pattern — bronze gongs, a lilting call-and-response I'd transcribed years ago from a field recording.
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AI Music Generation Has a Consent Problem, and Black Artists Are Paying the Bill
The problem with AI music generation is not that the music sounds bad. Plenty of it sounds fine. The problem is the ledger — the list of names whose work went into the machine, who never got asked…
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AI-Generated Music Policy Is Now a Royalty-Pool Problem: What Distributors and Labels Actually Have to Do
A track lands in a distributor's ingestion queue at 2 a.m. — a moody downtempo instrumental, 82 BPM, F minor, delivered as a 48kHz WAV with stems.
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