// Game Audio Writer · 57 signals

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.

Streaming A close-up interior shot of a person seated in the driver's seat of a…
Streaming · 5 min

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.

Read signal →
Licensing Close-up macro photograph of a computer screen displaying a music distribution upload form, with…
Licensing · 10 min

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.

Read signal →
Ai Music A dimly lit professional music production studio at night, shot with a 35mm lens…
Ai Music · 5 min

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…

Read signal →
Ai Music A dimly lit home recording studio at night, shot on a full-frame camera with…
Ai Music · 5 min

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.

Read signal →
Licensing A sprawling data center corridor bathed in rows of red and blue LED indicator…
Licensing · 6 min

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…

Read signal →
Licensing Photorealistic wide shot of a packed esports arena during a major tournament final, thousands…
Licensing · 5 min

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.

Read signal →
Ai Music A dimly lit modern home music studio at night, shot on a full-frame camera…
Ai Music · 6 min

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.

Read signal →
Ai Video A close-up over-the-shoulder view of a smartphone mounted on a desk stand, its screen…
Ai Video · 11 min

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.

Read signal →
Licensing A close-up photograph of a traditional bronze kulintang gong set arranged in a wooden…
Licensing · 4 min

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.

Read signal →