Happy to welcome Sterling Crispin back on the pod, who was in the news (and our collective feeds) a few times this year. We chat about his neuro-tech work at Apple for their Vision Pro headset, and...
2023-11-28 12:01:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In advance of the premiere of her new AI fueled gesamtkunstwerk “Gorgon”, the artist Marianna Simnett joins us to dive into mythology, mimicry and the saga of convincing tools to do what you wa...
2023-09-07 15:30:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the past two decades Shawn Reynaldo has operated in every corner of electronic music. His substack "First Floor", recently anthologized into his debut book, offers a refreshingly candid accoun...
2023-06-27 09:08:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Crossover episode with our beloved Channel co-conspirators New Models, where we break down the sudden spike of interest in AI spawned music, our projects Spawning and Holly+, and what these major d...
2023-05-04 09:06:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Everyone and their llama is talking about AI ethics and law, so we invited the high Llama Andres Guadamuz, an eminent researcher in AI and IP, to discuss the particularities and uncertainties of AI...
2023-04-04 14:38:51 +0000 UTC View Post
We caught up with Damien Roach, aka patten, aka 555-5555, to discuss the need for new language to navigate the abstract implications of machine learning for our understanding of art, and the limita...
2023-03-21 11:36:00 +0000 UTC View Post
After some weeks of nativity bliss and medical drama we are back!
A joy to invite Venkatesh Rao to take us down a number of his bunny trails, focussing initially on his great piece ...
2023-01-31 18:42:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Holly is due to give birth this week so our recording schedule is taking a temporary hit (leave name ideas in the comments).
Fortunately we recently linked up with the ini...
2022-12-13 15:12:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Runway have been on an absolute tear of late offering new AI tools for their creative production suite, so we invited CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela to join us to discuss their approach, and how the men...
2022-11-30 09:28:11 +0000 UTC View Post
A great joy to host Andy Turner and Emma Catnip to discuss their work in celebration of the release of Plaid's latest album Feorm Falorx. We discuss their intergalactic space travel over t...
2022-11-23 12:54:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We catch up with Moisés Horta Valenzuela (Hexorcismos) to discuss his remarkable experiments with music and machine learning, and his upcoming software project Semilla that experiments with co-own...
2022-11-07 23:20:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Primavera De Filippi of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society joins us to discuss her economic experiments, her groun...
2022-10-25 10:23:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! Back in the saddle after an enforced little break prompted by a peculiar cluster of medical scare, pregnancy and founding a new organization. What a wild year.
Thrilled to host J...
2022-10-13 09:44:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Mat joined our friends Emilie & Andrea at The Culture Journa...
2022-09-26 20:38:53 +0000 UTC View Post
A real joy to welcome one of our favorites David Kanaga, the composer and game designer behind Soft Valkyrie, a recent opera starring Stephen Fry and Attila Csihar, the dog opera Oἶκo...
2022-09-13 10:26:56 +0000 UTC View Post
A joy to welcome Yancey Stickler to discuss his idea of Post-Individualism and his new project Metalabel. We also get into his prior work founding Kickstarter, its parallels to web 3, and new propo...
2022-08-31 08:59:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Such a joy to have on virtuosic musician and instrument builder Tim Exile to discuss his collaborative online musical ecosystem Endlesss, the uneasy state of contemporary music, new folk traditions...
2022-08-18 00:04:47 +0000 UTC View Post
A real pleasure to welcome Emad Mostaque to discuss the impending launch of Stable Diffusion, his comprehensive plans for open source AI infrastructure, the impending reconfiguration of how we crea...
2022-08-09 16:15:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the moon to welcome titans of AI music Dadabots! We debate the coming obsolescence of human artists, their new open source AI music organization HarmonAI, and discuss what is being prototyped ...
2022-08-02 10:34:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We had a wonderfully funny chat with Marina Abramović on AI authorship and digital twins, the urgent need for heroism, and the parallels between performance art and web 3's attempts to value the i...
2022-07-20 11:44:20 +0000 UTC View Post
David Turner shares some of the most insightful and thorough analyses on the music industry through his Penny Fractions newsletter.
We link up to discuss the current state of streaming,...
2022-07-15 11:51:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Celebrating the release of his first book "Greenpilled: How Crypto Can Regenerate The World" we welcome Kevin Owocki to discuss regenerative crypto-economics, doomer optimism, impact DAO's, p...
2022-07-05 12:13:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Anil is one of our favorite thinkers on AI. To celebrate the advent of Anil's debut book "Logiciel: Six Seminars on Computational Reason", we try and pick apart some high level concepts on reason a...
2022-07-01 11:24:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Wonderful to catch up with DDSP co-author Hanoi Hantrakul, whose practice considers transcultural exchange using new technologies from machine learning to 3d printing. We discuss his contribution t...
2022-06-22 11:59:41 +0000 UTC View Post
We sit down with Sound.xyz founder David Greenstein to discuss the many different experiments and approaches happening to revalue music within the Ethereum ecosystem, touching on Spotify, TikTok an...
2022-06-09 20:26:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Our favorite projects at the moment are finding ways to harness the generative potential of Discord communities to coordinate ambitious projects, and what THE FRINGE are building is remarkable.
... 2022-06-02 15:27:02 +0000 UTC View Post
With our roadmap ready to drop, the Channel team sat down earlier this week to chat recent web3 developments and Channel’s position therein — a conversation that previews what’s to come this ...
2022-05-29 09:27:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Wonderful to chat with Brett Scott in advance of his new book "Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for Our Wallets" (Penguin) about the creeping incursions of cashlessness, the naivety of c...
2022-05-12 23:57:35 +0000 UTC View Post
After a short enforced break we are back to chat with one of the most exciting projects in the music and crypto field, Songcamp, and the world's first headless band, Chaos.
Camp Chaos: 2022-05-05 20:39:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Channel creators - Joshua Citarella, Interdependence (Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst), and New Models (Caroline Busta, Daniel Keller, Lil Internet) - are joined by CEO (!) Duncan Wilson to sh...
2022-04-23 06:14:41 +0000 UTC View Post