063 A I S e l f - P o r t r a i t What are the qualities or characteristics that you look for in artists who join the community? Anyone who’s as sound obsessed as everyone who’s currently part of the community. It all started with my own obsession with how far can I go with sound because it’s my emotional language and how I can express myself fully. This community is for people who wish to learn about new formats and ways of working, come for new inspiration, and participate in meaningful conversations. Whether you’re a student, independent researcher/artist with innovative new works you want to share, everyone is welcome. I ask for everyone who join the community to be respectful of each other and encourage constructive feedback and conversations. Continue to evolve, archive, and mark historical inventions as they happen. Curate group exhibitions, talks, workshops, and festival/ events for performance lineups. Serve as a place where hybrid arts can thrive and people can meet other likeminded people to collaborate with. It would be amazing for it to be a fully sustainable DAO with a treasury that supports new projects but I don’t have bandwidth myself to make that happen on my own. What are the main goals and objectives of SOUND OBSESSED? Can you share any success stories or notable collaborations that have emerged from the SOUND OBSESSED community? Dadabots has been pioneering the realm of AI audio for years. They’ve collaborated not only with me, but with Harry Yeff (Reeps100), Silverstein, Adam Neely, Keyon Christ, with a handful of other artists from all different genres. CJ Carr opened me to open source culture which I learned through him. This was the most inspiring happening for me to witness the way this global community of creative coders worked in such a collaborative and supportive way. I constantly question why are we not working like this in all fields? Dadabots are continuously sharing new research and have written and published papers of their innovation. Because they are musicians and data scientists, this unique combination is what makes everything they do with AI so inspiring and fascinating for musicians. They think like a musician and create AI models and workflows they know will be interesting for us. As the founder of SOUND OBSESSED, is there a specific impact or change that you hope to make through the platform? Help prove the importance and value of supporting early innovation. We’re in an interesting time as governments are figuring out rules and regulations of how AI is used. It’s important that the decision makers of policy and change have broad and diverse experiences as much as they do of the information they read about what’s happening. My hope is that within the current context of creative AI, SOUND OBSESSED works can give people diverse experiences to understand that we’ve moved far past the old fear-based narratives arond AI. It’s important to have critical conversations about the things that scare us, and even more important to have conversations through experience. Experiences always transcend whatever we hold in our heads as thoughts about anything that’s abstract until we experience them.
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