Journal
Field notes from where music, tools, culture and listening systems meet.
After the Prompt: What Makes Generated Music Production-Ready
A generated track is a performance without a production. What turns it into a record is the same work it has always been: arrangement, editing, sound selection, mix, master and metadata.
The Catalog Is the Interface
Organization, metadata, art direction and sequencing decide whether a body of music can be found at all. Notes from a twenty-eight-release label and a thirty-thousand-station index.
Designing a World of Listening
Building Spinn Radio: what it takes to turn a community catalog of tens of thousands of live stations into a globe you can wander — first paint, stream reliability, metadata read off the wire, and light that answers to the sound.
Raga, Timbre and Translation
What survives, and what quietly disappears, when raga, ghazal and Sufi forms pass through production systems built on other assumptions — from setting Khusrau and Kabir to producing raga fusion albums.
