Jordi Pons
@jordiponsdotme.bsky.social
Music, audio, and deep learning research at Stability AI ~ Building bridges between audio signal processing wisdom and deep learning.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Why Artists Don’t Use AI
1. Tools
2. Narratives
3. Power asymmetries
Apart from these, what else do you think holds artists back?
artintech.substack.com/p/why-artist...
1. Tools
2. Narratives
3. Power asymmetries
Apart from these, what else do you think holds artists back?
artintech.substack.com/p/why-artist...
Why Artists Don’t Use AI
On AI narratives and why artists don’t consider AI for their work.
artintech.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Why Artists Don’t Use AI
1. Tools
2. Narratives
3. Power asymmetries
Apart from these, what else do you think holds artists back?
artintech.substack.com/p/why-artist...
1. Tools
2. Narratives
3. Power asymmetries
Apart from these, what else do you think holds artists back?
artintech.substack.com/p/why-artist...
The best (and worst) part of being in a band is the instant feedback.
Alone, it takes much longer to know if you’re on the right track.
Alone, it takes much longer to know if you’re on the right track.
September 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The best (and worst) part of being in a band is the instant feedback.
Alone, it takes much longer to know if you’re on the right track.
Alone, it takes much longer to know if you’re on the right track.
The more I think about it, the more I feel AI’s biggest mark on music will be through interactivity:
• Personalized playback experiences
• Unique, ephemeral live concerts
• Artistic agency through also “composing” the interaction
All thanks to the generative abilities of AI.
• Personalized playback experiences
• Unique, ephemeral live concerts
• Artistic agency through also “composing” the interaction
All thanks to the generative abilities of AI.
September 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The more I think about it, the more I feel AI’s biggest mark on music will be through interactivity:
• Personalized playback experiences
• Unique, ephemeral live concerts
• Artistic agency through also “composing” the interaction
All thanks to the generative abilities of AI.
• Personalized playback experiences
• Unique, ephemeral live concerts
• Artistic agency through also “composing” the interaction
All thanks to the generative abilities of AI.
Never thought I’d be promoting my music in LinkedIn. Weird times.
September 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Never thought I’d be promoting my music in LinkedIn. Weird times.
Meet our AI Song Contest 2025 entry!
We submitted an interactive & generative AI music piece.
We used AI for:
- Sound design
- Interactive playback
More details about..
- Human-AI co-creation process
- Name of the song
- Videoclip
- Live performance
👉 artintech.substack.com/p/our-ai-son...
We submitted an interactive & generative AI music piece.
We used AI for:
- Sound design
- Interactive playback
More details about..
- Human-AI co-creation process
- Name of the song
- Videoclip
- Live performance
👉 artintech.substack.com/p/our-ai-son...
September 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Meet our AI Song Contest 2025 entry!
We submitted an interactive & generative AI music piece.
We used AI for:
- Sound design
- Interactive playback
More details about..
- Human-AI co-creation process
- Name of the song
- Videoclip
- Live performance
👉 artintech.substack.com/p/our-ai-son...
We submitted an interactive & generative AI music piece.
We used AI for:
- Sound design
- Interactive playback
More details about..
- Human-AI co-creation process
- Name of the song
- Videoclip
- Live performance
👉 artintech.substack.com/p/our-ai-son...
We analyzed 337 AI music artworks (2017–2024) to uncover how artists are creating with AI.
📄 Paper (arXiv)
📂 Database (GitHub)
🎥 Video
👉 artintech.substack.com/p/report-art...
📄 Paper (arXiv)
📂 Database (GitHub)
🎥 Video
👉 artintech.substack.com/p/report-art...
August 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
We analyzed 337 AI music artworks (2017–2024) to uncover how artists are creating with AI.
📄 Paper (arXiv)
📂 Database (GitHub)
🎥 Video
👉 artintech.substack.com/p/report-art...
📄 Paper (arXiv)
📂 Database (GitHub)
🎥 Video
👉 artintech.substack.com/p/report-art...
Everyone is thinking of using AI to make music. But what if it’s more interesting to use AI at playback time?
Music will no longer be distributed as MP3 files.
New generative AI formats are emerging that will enable interactive music experiences.
Music will no longer be distributed as MP3 files.
New generative AI formats are emerging that will enable interactive music experiences.
August 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Everyone is thinking of using AI to make music. But what if it’s more interesting to use AI at playback time?
Music will no longer be distributed as MP3 files.
New generative AI formats are emerging that will enable interactive music experiences.
Music will no longer be distributed as MP3 files.
New generative AI formats are emerging that will enable interactive music experiences.
🔥🔥 Beefs in AI Music 🔥🔥
➡️ Drake's 'Taylor Made Freestyle' w/ Tupac and Snoop Dogg AI voices
➡️ Metro Boomin AI beat 'BBL Drizzy'
➡️ Drake rapping over 'BBL Drizzy' in 'U My Everything'
➡️ Legal beef targeting Suno
➡️ Academic beef between Wiggins and Cope
artintech.substack.com/p/beefs-in-a...
➡️ Drake's 'Taylor Made Freestyle' w/ Tupac and Snoop Dogg AI voices
➡️ Metro Boomin AI beat 'BBL Drizzy'
➡️ Drake rapping over 'BBL Drizzy' in 'U My Everything'
➡️ Legal beef targeting Suno
➡️ Academic beef between Wiggins and Cope
artintech.substack.com/p/beefs-in-a...
Beefs in AI Music
Drake, Lamar, and even Tupac and Cope have all been caught up in beefs.
artintech.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🔥🔥 Beefs in AI Music 🔥🔥
➡️ Drake's 'Taylor Made Freestyle' w/ Tupac and Snoop Dogg AI voices
➡️ Metro Boomin AI beat 'BBL Drizzy'
➡️ Drake rapping over 'BBL Drizzy' in 'U My Everything'
➡️ Legal beef targeting Suno
➡️ Academic beef between Wiggins and Cope
artintech.substack.com/p/beefs-in-a...
➡️ Drake's 'Taylor Made Freestyle' w/ Tupac and Snoop Dogg AI voices
➡️ Metro Boomin AI beat 'BBL Drizzy'
➡️ Drake rapping over 'BBL Drizzy' in 'U My Everything'
➡️ Legal beef targeting Suno
➡️ Academic beef between Wiggins and Cope
artintech.substack.com/p/beefs-in-a...
Beef has always been part of music culture, and AI music is no different :)
artintech.substack.com/p/beefs-in-a...
artintech.substack.com/p/beefs-in-a...
Beefs in AI Music
Drake, Lamar, and even Tupac and Cope have all been caught up in beefs.
artintech.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Beef has always been part of music culture, and AI music is no different :)
artintech.substack.com/p/beefs-in-a...
artintech.substack.com/p/beefs-in-a...
Most artists already know how to make music—they're not looking for AI to do it for them.
👉 artintech.substack.com/p/ai-music-i...
👉 artintech.substack.com/p/ai-music-i...
AI Music is Generative and Uncanny
In this interview we discuss how AI misfires could shape AI music.
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July 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Most artists already know how to make music—they're not looking for AI to do it for them.
👉 artintech.substack.com/p/ai-music-i...
👉 artintech.substack.com/p/ai-music-i...
What’s an artistic medium?
It’s the thing artists use to make art.
Like canvas for painters.
Clay for sculptors.
Video for directors.
Or recordings for musicians.
This post explores how to use generative AI as an artistic medium:
artintech.substack.com/p/ai-as-an-a...
It’s the thing artists use to make art.
Like canvas for painters.
Clay for sculptors.
Video for directors.
Or recordings for musicians.
This post explores how to use generative AI as an artistic medium:
artintech.substack.com/p/ai-as-an-a...
AI as an Artistic Medium
Generative AI not as a tool, but as an artistic medium.
artintech.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
What’s an artistic medium?
It’s the thing artists use to make art.
Like canvas for painters.
Clay for sculptors.
Video for directors.
Or recordings for musicians.
This post explores how to use generative AI as an artistic medium:
artintech.substack.com/p/ai-as-an-a...
It’s the thing artists use to make art.
Like canvas for painters.
Clay for sculptors.
Video for directors.
Or recordings for musicians.
This post explores how to use generative AI as an artistic medium:
artintech.substack.com/p/ai-as-an-a...
I’ve been studying AI and gastronomy—sharing my learnings here: artintech.substack.com/p/ai-makes-d...
Delicioso Algoritmo (Delicious Algorithm) by Eneko Axpe gives a nice overview of the field.
Know any other books, papers or blogposts?
I'm having trouble finding beginner-friendly resources.
Delicioso Algoritmo (Delicious Algorithm) by Eneko Axpe gives a nice overview of the field.
Know any other books, papers or blogposts?
I'm having trouble finding beginner-friendly resources.
AI Makes Dinner
On farming, cooking robots, reducing waste and more.
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June 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I’ve been studying AI and gastronomy—sharing my learnings here: artintech.substack.com/p/ai-makes-d...
Delicioso Algoritmo (Delicious Algorithm) by Eneko Axpe gives a nice overview of the field.
Know any other books, papers or blogposts?
I'm having trouble finding beginner-friendly resources.
Delicioso Algoritmo (Delicious Algorithm) by Eneko Axpe gives a nice overview of the field.
Know any other books, papers or blogposts?
I'm having trouble finding beginner-friendly resources.
Lately, I’ve been learning to mix music.
And it feels overwhelming when you are a beginner.
Following this checklist helped me.
With this list you don’t need to remember everything. Just need to do what’s next.
Details and a PDF of the checklist in:
artintech.substack.com/p/mixing-mus...
And it feels overwhelming when you are a beginner.
Following this checklist helped me.
With this list you don’t need to remember everything. Just need to do what’s next.
Details and a PDF of the checklist in:
artintech.substack.com/p/mixing-mus...
Mixing Music 101
A practical checklist for beginners.
artintech.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Lately, I’ve been learning to mix music.
And it feels overwhelming when you are a beginner.
Following this checklist helped me.
With this list you don’t need to remember everything. Just need to do what’s next.
Details and a PDF of the checklist in:
artintech.substack.com/p/mixing-mus...
And it feels overwhelming when you are a beginner.
Following this checklist helped me.
With this list you don’t need to remember everything. Just need to do what’s next.
Details and a PDF of the checklist in:
artintech.substack.com/p/mixing-mus...
Now thinking that I did not include live coding music, pure data, max MSP, supercollider..
Any good references out there?
Any good references out there?
This post wraps up my time studying the history of generative music and AI music.
➡️Generative Music OGs artintech.substack.com/p/generative...
Previous posts..
➡️Algorithmic Music OGs artintech.substack.com/p/algorithmi...
➡️History of Neural Networks for Music artintech.substack.com/p/the-forgot...
➡️Generative Music OGs artintech.substack.com/p/generative...
Previous posts..
➡️Algorithmic Music OGs artintech.substack.com/p/algorithmi...
➡️History of Neural Networks for Music artintech.substack.com/p/the-forgot...
Generative Music OGs
How dice games, wind arps, and Brian Eno are all related.
artintech.substack.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Now thinking that I did not include live coding music, pure data, max MSP, supercollider..
Any good references out there?
Any good references out there?
This post wraps up my time studying the history of generative music and AI music.
➡️Generative Music OGs artintech.substack.com/p/generative...
Previous posts..
➡️Algorithmic Music OGs artintech.substack.com/p/algorithmi...
➡️History of Neural Networks for Music artintech.substack.com/p/the-forgot...
➡️Generative Music OGs artintech.substack.com/p/generative...
Previous posts..
➡️Algorithmic Music OGs artintech.substack.com/p/algorithmi...
➡️History of Neural Networks for Music artintech.substack.com/p/the-forgot...
Generative Music OGs
How dice games, wind arps, and Brian Eno are all related.
artintech.substack.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This post wraps up my time studying the history of generative music and AI music.
➡️Generative Music OGs artintech.substack.com/p/generative...
Previous posts..
➡️Algorithmic Music OGs artintech.substack.com/p/algorithmi...
➡️History of Neural Networks for Music artintech.substack.com/p/the-forgot...
➡️Generative Music OGs artintech.substack.com/p/generative...
Previous posts..
➡️Algorithmic Music OGs artintech.substack.com/p/algorithmi...
➡️History of Neural Networks for Music artintech.substack.com/p/the-forgot...
Today we release Stable Audio Open Small 🫂
Based on adversarial post-training, it does not rely on distillation or CFG
Runtime is reduced to milliseconds with GPUs or seconds with CPUs
Weights huggingface.co/stabilityai/...
Blog stability.ai/news/stabili...
Paper arxiv.org/abs/2505.08175
Based on adversarial post-training, it does not rely on distillation or CFG
Runtime is reduced to milliseconds with GPUs or seconds with CPUs
Weights huggingface.co/stabilityai/...
Blog stability.ai/news/stabili...
Paper arxiv.org/abs/2505.08175
May 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Today we release Stable Audio Open Small 🫂
Based on adversarial post-training, it does not rely on distillation or CFG
Runtime is reduced to milliseconds with GPUs or seconds with CPUs
Weights huggingface.co/stabilityai/...
Blog stability.ai/news/stabili...
Paper arxiv.org/abs/2505.08175
Based on adversarial post-training, it does not rely on distillation or CFG
Runtime is reduced to milliseconds with GPUs or seconds with CPUs
Weights huggingface.co/stabilityai/...
Blog stability.ai/news/stabili...
Paper arxiv.org/abs/2505.08175
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the pioneers (OGs) of neural networks for music.
But many of you rightly pointed out that I missed some key names :)
Previous post: artintech.substack.com/p/the-forgot...
New post: artintech.substack.com/p/algorithmi...
But many of you rightly pointed out that I missed some key names :)
Previous post: artintech.substack.com/p/the-forgot...
New post: artintech.substack.com/p/algorithmi...
Algorithmic Music OGs
How serialism, quantum music, indeterminacy, and Duchamp are all related.
artintech.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the pioneers (OGs) of neural networks for music.
But many of you rightly pointed out that I missed some key names :)
Previous post: artintech.substack.com/p/the-forgot...
New post: artintech.substack.com/p/algorithmi...
But many of you rightly pointed out that I missed some key names :)
Previous post: artintech.substack.com/p/the-forgot...
New post: artintech.substack.com/p/algorithmi...
Today I installed the ChatGPT app for my mum.
She used it to make jokes about my dad.
I'm not sure she is more productive now.
She used it to make jokes about my dad.
I'm not sure she is more productive now.
May 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Today I installed the ChatGPT app for my mum.
She used it to make jokes about my dad.
I'm not sure she is more productive now.
She used it to make jokes about my dad.
I'm not sure she is more productive now.
I’m deep down the rabbit hole of (pre-AI) generative music.
This is better than YouTube.
This is better than YouTube.
May 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I’m deep down the rabbit hole of (pre-AI) generative music.
This is better than YouTube.
This is better than YouTube.
Making AI music without knowing Xenakis' work is like playing jazz without having heard Coltrane.
In the language of their time, 'indeterminacy' is akin to what we now call 'generative'—where some aspects of the composition are left to chance (not determined).
rohandrape.net/ut/rttcc-tex...
In the language of their time, 'indeterminacy' is akin to what we now call 'generative'—where some aspects of the composition are left to chance (not determined).
rohandrape.net/ut/rttcc-tex...
May 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Making AI music without knowing Xenakis' work is like playing jazz without having heard Coltrane.
In the language of their time, 'indeterminacy' is akin to what we now call 'generative'—where some aspects of the composition are left to chance (not determined).
rohandrape.net/ut/rttcc-tex...
In the language of their time, 'indeterminacy' is akin to what we now call 'generative'—where some aspects of the composition are left to chance (not determined).
rohandrape.net/ut/rttcc-tex...
Does listening to audiobooks count as reading?
May 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Does listening to audiobooks count as reading?
I'm experiencing a déjà vu with FAD metrics.
Five years ago, we were all complaining that SDR metrics were useless for source separation—yet here we are, still using them.
Five years ago, we were all complaining that SDR metrics were useless for source separation—yet here we are, still using them.
May 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I'm experiencing a déjà vu with FAD metrics.
Five years ago, we were all complaining that SDR metrics were useless for source separation—yet here we are, still using them.
Five years ago, we were all complaining that SDR metrics were useless for source separation—yet here we are, still using them.
Authors fall into two camps — the acronym abusers and the good writers.
April 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Authors fall into two camps — the acronym abusers and the good writers.