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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.

Music Industry A dimly lit professional audio mastering studio at night, captured in a wide editorial…
Music Industry · 6 min

AI Music Detection Is a Forensic Craft Now — Here's How the Pros Actually Do It

A country single crossed an A&R friend's desk last winter with a backstory that checked out on paper: a regional act, a clutch of streams, a label-ready master at 48kHz. The voice had grit.

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Licensing A professional commercial recording studio captured during a live session, photographed through the control…
Licensing · 6 min

The Cost Comparison Tech Giants Don't Want in the AI Copyright Regulation Debate

A friend who runs a small commercial studio sent me two numbers last month. The first was an invoice: $4,200 for a three-day session to cut a 90-second cue for a regional ad.

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Licensing A wide, atmospheric photograph of a large outdoor music festival stage at dusk, shot…
Licensing · 6 min

Net Proceeds: What Charity Music Festivals Actually Move

A benefit festival sells a ticket for, say, $150. By the time the cause sees money, the line on the press release reads "net proceeds." Somewhere between that $150 and the check that lands at a…

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Soundcloud A photorealistic shot of a home DJ setup in a dimly lit spare bedroom…
Soundcloud · 5 min

Why SoundCloud Wants Your Live DJ Set: Inside the Streaming Land Grab

A producer I know went live last month from a spare bedroom in Leeds — two controllers, a ring light pointed at the ceiling because direct light washed her out, and a set of unreleased edits she'd…

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Licensing A professional voice narrator standing in a softly lit recording studio, eyes closed in…
Licensing · 5 min

AI Voice Generation for Audiobooks at Scale: Three Production Paths Compared

A mid-size publisher I talked to last winter had 240 backlist titles sitting in a spreadsheet, every one of them text-only, every one of them a candidate for an audio edition that would never get…

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Workflow A dimly lit bedroom at 1 a.m., a person lying awake on their back…
Workflow · 5 min

Build Your Own Sleep Audio With AI Music Generation: Where the "Just Play White Noise" Advice Breaks Down

The standard advice for a brain that won't power down at midnight is some version of: put on a looping rain track, or a white-noise app, or one of those eight-hour "deep sleep" playlists, and let it…

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Licensing A close-up macro photograph of a vintage card catalog drawer pulled open, revealing neatly…
Licensing · 10 min

The Quiet Trap in AI Training Data Licensing: What a Dataset's Curation Owns That the Songs Don't

You can clear every single track in a dataset — every Creative Commons attribution, every share-alike clause, every artist credit logged and honored — and still lose a copyright case over that…

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Licensing A tense, atmospheric photograph of a sleek modern legal conference room at dusk, shot…
Licensing · 5 min

The Licensing Question Nobody at the Label Wants to Answer About AI Music Generation

A sync deal I watched fall apart last year didn't die over money or taste. The placement was approved, the spot was cut, the music supervisor loved the track.

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Licensing A dimly lit bedroom at 1 a.m., a smartphone glowing face-up on a rumpled…
Licensing · 4 min

AI Music Training and the Consent Problem: What Your Catalog Is Actually Worth

A vocalist I know got a screenshot from a fan last spring. It was a forum thread listing the records an AI model had reportedly been trained on, and her name was on it — a specific number of songs…

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