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.
Spotify Conversational AI: Where "Just Ask For What You Want" Holds Up—And Where It Breaks
The advice going around the streaming business right now is clean enough to fit on a slide: the search box is finished, and the future of discovery is a conversation.
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AI Music Labeling Won't Tell You What You Think It Tells You
A label that says "AI-generated" on a track doesn't tell a listener whether a machine made the music.
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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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