Soundtracking the digital age. An openly AI-powered, human-directed electronic music project. Driven by curiosity, shaped by imagination. Stay curious.
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Never been much of a radio person. Same songs on repeat.
But I love the idea of tuning in and having no clue what’s coming next.
That’s what I want SourceSynthetic to feel like.
Different sounds. One thread: soundtracking the digital age.
Even I don’t know what’s next.
I wonder how much great music we never hear because algorithms keep recommending what we already like.
Sometimes the best discoveries are the ones you weren’t looking for.
Are streaming platforms helping us explore music, or keeping us in the same loop?
Spotify is starting to distinguish AI artist identities from people using AI to create music.
About time. Why should using AI mean there’s no human creativity involved?
Surely what someone brings to the music matters more than the tools they use.
newsroom.spotify.com/2026-10…
AI music is already being released on the same platforms as traditional music.
But the industry still seems to be figuring out how to deal with it.
Now Universal, Sony and DistroKid are caught up in a dispute over AI music data.
I’m curious where this is all heading.
I don’t think the concerns about copyright, consent or streaming royalties should be ignored.
But I’d like to see more discussion about responsible use, transparency and what people actually contribute creatively.
The technology is here. How we choose to use it matters.
For anyone interested in the dispute involving Universal, Sony and DistroKid, here’s the reporting behind this discussion:
musicbusinessworldwide.com/u…
Some things are better left unanswered.
A heartbeat that won't stop.
A phone call you shouldn't pick up.
Two Halloween tracks. Two different kinds of darkness.
STILL BEATING / DON'T ANSWER
SourceSynthetic 🖤
Both out now. Listen below.
Listen to the full Halloween tracks 🖤
🫀 STILL BEATING
open.spotify.com/album/5eb5z…
📞 DON'T ANSWER
open.spotify.com/album/31FCl…
🎬 Watch on YouTube:
youtube.com/@SourceSynthetic
Saw this post joking that making one AI song destroys ecosystems and causes natural disasters.
It’s obviously exaggerated, but it got me thinking. Why is making music with AI suddenly such an environmental crime when we’ve ignored so much else for decades?
AI has real problems. Energy use, copyright, consent. We should question all of it.
But I don’t want those concerns to be the end of the conversation.
What if we put as much effort into exploring what AI could help us achieve as we do into arguing about its existence?
If you’re curious about the actual numbers, the International Energy Agency has looked at both AI’s growing energy demands and how it could help improve energy systems.
Worth a read.
iea.org/reports/energy-and-a…
Years ago I came across experiments suggesting our bodies might react to an event before it happens. The results were controversial, but I never quite forgot them.
Not because I believed we’d proved anything. I just found the possibility fascinating.
Of course, expecting something isn’t the same as knowing the future.
But I’d love to understand where prediction ends and perception begins. How much of what I experience is my brain’s best guess, corrected by what actually happens?
For anyone curious, here’s the actual research published in Nature Neuroscience this October.
It doesn’t prove we can predict the future. It shows how deeply the brain prepares for what it expects to experience.
Worth exploring.
nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
