Jesse Engel
jesseengel.bsky.social
Jesse Engel
@jesseengel.bsky.social
Guitarist, Researcher Google DeepMind. Opinions are my own.
One of the most fun things about latent spaces, is that they are actual spaces. Take a ride in you own spaceship to explore the constellations of latent music! magenta.withgoogle.com/spacedj-anno...

Powered by the Lyria RealTime API in AI Studio.
Space DJ: Navigating a Musical Universe
Today, we’re excited to launch Space DJ, a web application from Magenta thatturns music exploration into an interactive journey through a constellation ofsou...
magenta.withgoogle.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Realtime interactive generative models FTW!

Announcing a new 🌊 of details and features for Magenta RealTime, the open weights live music AI model from GDM!

* Live Jamming with audio input 🎤🎸🎵
* Personalize your own models 🔧
* Tech report 📜

Links below in the 🧵...
August 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
New VST/AU Plugin! 🚨

Play with Lyria RealTime directly from inside your favorite DAW with “The Infinite Crate” 🎧🎶

With a VST plugin you can feed audio directly into your DAW for sampling, live performance, or even a practice partner to jam with.

💾 Get it here: g.co/magenta/infinite-crate
July 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Pleasantly surprised with how easy/fun it is to "vibe code" new musical experiences in AI Studio.

I'm not much of a JS guy, but had Gemini help me make a "Kaoss Pad" emulator using the Lyria RealTime API to explore musical latent spaces in realtime.
June 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Lately I've been finding it interesting to think of AI from an ecology/conservationist perspective.

In the analogy, we are the native habitat (our society, culture, lives) and AI is the outside disruptive influence (i.e. invasive species, pollution, human effects, etc.)
April 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Sometimes there's no replacement for a good review article:

youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
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March 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Reposted by Jesse Engel
Inaugurating new acct to share work from my PhD student!

Wayne et al have been running a live eval platform Copilot Arena - a VSCode extension serving code completions from AI systems to real developers. See 🧵 for findings and preprint

Excited to be evaluating human-AI *workflows* holistically!
What do developers 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 think of AI coding assistants?

In October, we launched Copilot Arena to collect user preferences on real dev workflows. After months of live service, we’re here to share our findings in our recent preprint.

Here's what we have learned /🧵
March 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
What an astonishingly tone deaf take. He misses the entire point of creative practice.

Accessibility and mastery are not opposed, they're two ends of the same personal creative journey.
Brother you’re a fucking loser
January 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The Internet was designed so that browsers are supposed to be used manually by people and public APIs are for automation. Giving bots (...sorry, "agents") browser control breaks this design, turns everything into an API.
January 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Jam of the day #14: mbira DnB 16th note tornado

Sometimes less is more with prompts

Remix here: aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/tools/music-...

Discord: discord.gg/googlelabs
#MusicFXDJ
December 4, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Jam of the day #13: Chiptune drumline madness

Happy Monday!

Remix here: aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/tools/music-...
Discord: discord.gg/googlelabs
#MusicFXDJ
December 3, 2024 at 1:15 AM
Behind the scenes video that does a good job of describing what motivates our work and where we're headed next.

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November 27, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Jam of the day #12: Adding a synth breakdown and going deeper with the house...

Extending discord user Georgia's extension of my jam of the day #11...

Remix here: aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/tools/music-...

Discord: discord.gg/googlelabs
#MusicFXDJ
November 25, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Jam of the day #11: Bluegrass trap tablaphone

Love the transition, some pretty wild sounds in there

Remix here: aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/tools/music-...

Discord: discord.gg/googlelabs
#MusicFXDJ
November 20, 2024 at 6:14 AM
Jam of the day #10: Blue man group vibes. Not sure how I found my way into this part of latent space but I like it.

Feels like more of an abstract mixture than a linear combination.

Remix here: aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/tools/music-...

Discord: discord.gg/googlelabs
#MusicFXDJ
November 19, 2024 at 7:30 AM