Nova Reyes
Nova Reyes edits The Signal and reviews AI music tools after a decade scoring indie games and short films; still owns four broken synthesizers.
The Music Tourism Number Everyone's Quoting — And What It Leaves Out
Start with the headline that ran everywhere: music tourism spending in the UK grew by double digits year over year, and the trade press had its lede before the report finished loading.
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AI Music Labeling Is Coming to Your Upload Pipeline — Here's What the Standard Actually Says
A number has been doing a lot of work lately. Somewhere between a rights-holder panel and a product roadmap deck, "half of new uploads are AI-generated" became the load-bearing fact of the AI music…
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Copyright Law at the Border: Why a Quiet EU Proposal Could Pull $300M From US Artists
Last spring I pulled a royalty statement for a track of mine that had been licensed to a mid-size European retail chain — background music, in-store, the kind of use that plays a few thousand times a…
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Where Music Actually Lands in Esports: Reading Gen-Z Audience Demographics Before You Cut a Check
A label A&R I know spent last quarter obsessing over a mid-six-figure playlist push and never once opened a Twitch stream.
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AI Copyright and the Fine Print: Who Actually Owns the Song Your Generator Just Made
A director I work with sent me a track last spring, generated in about forty seconds from a text prompt, and asked one reasonable question: "Can we clear this for the festival cut?" Not a hard…
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AI Music Video Generators vs. Hiring a Human: Which One Fits Your Release Schedule
The track is mastered. 48kHz WAV, streaming-ready, uploaded three days early because for once you were organized.
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How AI Music Policy Is Rewriting the Path From Upload to Payout
Picture a release you scheduled for a Friday. Distributor confirmed it weeks ago, the artwork's clean, you told your list.
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Where to Distribute AI Music: The Streaming Platform AI Music Policy That Actually Affects Your Payout
You upload a track through your distributor on a Tuesday. Wednesday it's "in review." Friday you get an email: the release is held pending "clarification of the tools used in production." You didn't…
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What GPS Trackers on a Tour Van Tell Us About K-Pop Industry Ethics
Last month a client sent me a phone recording of a fan chant from a stadium show and asked whether I could clean it up into a crowd bed for a promo edit. Standard request.
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