Stories
Recurring formats, first-hand testing, and audio you can press play on. Every claim carries a model version and a date.
Open Project · 2026-08-14
Open Project: Harmattan, from prompt to release
June Okafor published her entire Project World for the Harmattan single: brief, moodboard, 20 generations, the rights file, the marketing plan. We walk through it.
One Prompt, Ten Results · 2026-08-12
One prompt, ten results: the bedroom pop stress test
We ran June Okafor's bedroom pop recipe ten times without changing a word, rated every take in the open, and learned where the dice actually land.
8 min · SunoFetch Lab
Model Change Report
Model Change Report: Suno v5.5, retested
We re-ran 10 recipes from our library against v5.5 and documented what improved, what regressed, and which prompts need rewriting. With sources.
9 min
Inside the Generation
Veiled City: 24 takes, one keeper, and a tape machine
Mara Voss walks through every decision between a first prompt and a club-tested release, including the 23 generations that did not make it.
11 min
Regional Frequencies
Regional Frequencies: Lahore
A working map of the city's AI music scene: the studios, the WhatsApp collectives, the qawwali lineage question, and the creators to watch.
10 min
Creator Desk
Creator Desk: Noor Baig's Lahore lab
A 1962 harmonium, a taxonomy of ornaments, and a wall of index cards tracking which model builds respect the meend. A visual tour.
7 min
The Failure Museum
The Failure Museum: a taxonomy of vocal artifacts
Doubling ghosts, syllable smear, the choir that nobody ordered. Idris Kanu catalogs the five ways generated vocals fail, and the repair that works for each.
9 min
Genre Anatomy
Genre Anatomy: dub techno in four decisions
What actually makes a dub techno track, which of those decisions current models understand, and where you still have to intervene by hand.
10 min
Release Autopsy
Release Autopsy: scoring Red Dust under deadline
Theo Andrade opens the books on a shipped game soundtrack: 20 pitch cues, 3 winners, the provenance sheet that closed the deal, and the invoice.
12 min
The formats
Inside the Generation. Complete track-development breakdowns, take by take.
One Prompt, Ten Results. Controlled experiments with every result published.
The Failure Museum. Failed generations, catalogued, with the repairs that worked.
Creator Desk. A visual tour of one creator's working process.
Genre Anatomy. What makes a genre, and which decisions models actually understand.
Release Autopsy. Production, artwork, metadata, distribution and marketing, with numbers.
Model Change Report. Retested explanations of what changed and what to do next.
Regional Frequencies. Culturally specific creator and music laboratories.
Open Project. Real workspace material published as interactive case studies.