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.
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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AI Coding Agents Write Faster Than You Can Read. So Why Are You Still the Bottleneck?
A pull request landed in my queue last Tuesday at 9:14 a.m. The agent had written it in about ninety seconds: a refactor of a payment-retry path, four files touched, 230 lines changed, a commit…
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Music Publishing's Regional Land Grab Isn't About Buying Catalogs Anymore
When a mid-size publisher announces it is "entering" the Latin or African or Southeast Asian market, the instinct among people watching the cap table is to ask how big the catalog was and what…
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The Suno AI Music Generation Settlement Is the License Template, Not the Lawsuit
The lawsuit was never the story. The settlement is. For two years the music industry treated AI audio companies as defendants — entities to be sued into either compliance or extinction.
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Why Music Rights Acquisitions Don't Close on the First Try
The advice you hear at every rights conference is some version of this: a good catalog sells itself. Capital is deep, music is a non-correlated asset, the institutions are lined up around the block…
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Algorithm Customization Is Quietly Killing the Discovery Plan Your Artist Was Counting On
Here is a claim worth stating before I soften it with caveats: the single biggest threat to your artist's next release is not a competitor, a label, or a bad mix.
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