Samuel Kenworth
Isadora 4.5 vs. Max and TouchDesigner: Which One Actually Holds Up Onstage
The night a video cue failed on me, it wasn't the software's fault, exactly. It was 40 minutes into a set, the patch had grown three layers deeper than I could hold in my head, and when the dancer hit…
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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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What Spotify Partnerships in Afrobeats Actually Buy — and Who Gets Paid
A festival stage in Lagos, a DSP logo on the backdrop, and a press line about "investing in the sound of a generation." The easy read is that the platform bought the moment.
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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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The Training Data Question: What AI Music Generation Owes the Artists It Learned From
Last month I typed a friend's stage name into the search box of a public dataset that several music models were trained on.
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The Privacy Policy Wall Between You and the Sample: What Consent Actually Does Before You Hear a Note
You followed a link to an industry report — something about international music markets in 2026 — and the report did not load. A privacy policy banner loaded instead.
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Threads Growth Metrics vs. X: Where Should an Artist Actually Spend Their Posting Energy?
You have an artist with one good single, a release date, and roughly forty minutes a day of posting energy that someone — the artist, you, a 19-year-old intern — has to spend.
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Infinite Reality and the Unified Stack: What AI Video Generation Actually Costs an Enterprise Content Team
A localization vendor once handed me a batch of 14 product videos two days before a multi-market launch. The English master looked clean.
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