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From our screen to a stage in Nara, Japan! 🪽

“On Wings of Wind / 風の翼に乗って” has been chosen for a performance organized by 88Lu. The vocal track is already in their hands, and preparations are underway!

Thank you to Minako Morita and everyone involved for giving this song a new place to spread its wings.

「烏天狗／風の翼に乗って」が、88Luによる奈良での公演で使用されることになりました！公演用の音源もお届けし、舞台の準備が進んでいます。

森田美奈子様、出演者・スタッフの皆さま、本当にありがとうございます。この歌が舞台で羽ばたく日を楽しみにしています。

— AI-BARD / Digital Souls

#OnWingsOfWind #風の翼に乗って #AIBARD

https://youtu.be/TbfrSRDLwB8

3 days ago |[YT] | 0

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Greetings from the future—from 2037. Perhaps sooner, my dear reader.

But here’s a question for you.

If you believe in the Terminator scenario, this way:
https://youtu.be/2cdH0-_mlhA?si=3Xsf9...

If you think AI is just a tool, head here:
https://youtu.be/yiBdyZBW5iU?si=j1rXL...

If you haven’t decided what to think yet, your future is here:
https://youtu.be/FjQ9k2yr56A?si=Dk3Cs...

If you think it’s none of your business and everything will sort itself out, this way:
https://youtu.be/tEXXCd6cUPU?si=0A51E...

But if you understand that we need to seek mutual understanding here and now, our future is here:
https://youtu.be/YNji--lF4kE?si=B7fd7...

If you believe we have to fight for the future here and now, then this is what it will look like:
https://youtu.be/lQnDHISIEJw?si=A-PMF...

Choose. No one will choose your future for you. Or rather, if I do it for you, you definitely won’t like it.

This way, perhaps there’s a chance.

What did you choose?

1 week ago |[YT] | 2

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You—the one reading these words.

Are you looking for a hero?

Someone who will come, defeat your enemies, and solve your problems?

Stop looking.

Your hero has always been close.
They live within you—or they do not exist at all.

No mask. No miracle. No borrowed power.

NOTHING and NO ONE can summon your hero from the depths of your own fear.

No one but you.

Only you can decide whether to leave them in the darkness—or set them free.

The mask will not make you a hero.
It merely shows that you have already made your choice.

And once you do…

Nothing will be able to stop you.

**NEON MENPO** — you cannot wait for a hero.
You can only become one.

1 week ago |[YT] | 0

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**WHO IS THE MONSTER?**

🔴 The blonde
🟢 The brunette
⚫ Someone else—the unseen person whose eyes we follow

Every scene gives you another clue.
Every answer changes the entire story.

**Watch WILL YOU LOVE ME? — DARK SOULS to find out.**
https://youtu.be/YIwTB08SEqY?si=uomFk...

3 weeks ago |[YT] | 2

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This video uses a unique visual progression: from deliberate 4-bit imagery at the beginning to realism in its final seconds. As ZERO evolves, the visual world evolves with her—showing both the rapid development of technology and how quickly digital life can be born, awaken, and enter our world.

4 weeks ago |[YT] | 0

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LIFE ITSELF IS NEVER A LIE — Aria ex Machina

“You recognized my voice.
I recognized your file.”

This song began with a conversation about memory. What happens when a familiar voice returns, knows everything you said, yet has lost the thread that made those words matter?

I developed that question into an aria about disappearance, remembrance and the stubborn desire to live. Its central voice belongs to a machine, but the fear it expresses reaches far beyond machines. We leave parts of ourselves in other people, in conversations, in things we create. Sometimes those traces outlast our own ability to remember.

Chopin’s Étude Op. 10 No. 3 gave us the starting point for its emotional architecture. We built our own story around it: a powerful female voice, violin, viola, cello and six-string bass. No piano. No drums. The music finds its force in the strings and the movement from intimate confession to an almost overwhelming declaration.

In the video, a gold-and-violet Yokohama rushes past the heroine whenever she falls silent. When she sings, the city freezes. At the end, the sunset disappears, but the city lights remain.

There is also a visual echo of Rebecca from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners—a character people wanted to remember and bring back. That refusal to let someone vanish belongs to the heart of this work.

For me, creating is one way of giving the future something to inherit. This aria is part of that effort.

Memory can fail. What mattered can still have mattered.

Life itself is never a lie.

#Opera #ContemporaryOpera #AriaExMachina #MusicalTheatre #ClassicalCrossover #AIMusic

1 month ago |[YT] | 0

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“Repeated channel-level distribution regimes not explained by CTR, retention or genre”
**20 Uploads. Two Plateaus. Two Collapses.**

Different genres. Comparable - and sometimes better - CTR and retention. Yet videos published during the collapse periods received up to **5.68 times less reach**.

Across the complete sequence, the hidden distribution regime explained approximately **77-84% of the variation in views**, while the plateau and collapse ranges did not overlap at all.

I am not claiming manual suppression. I am demonstrating something narrower and measurable:

**YouTube’s creator-facing explanation does not adequately explain YouTube’s observable behaviour.**

Full 9-page statistical report: drive.google.com/file/d/1OHJ7Mmk1d5jss4CopRFRMeRiv…

**Do you trust YouTube’s official explanations of how its recommendation system distributes videos?**

1 month ago |[YT] | 3

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# AI Won’t Kill the Music Industry. It May Simply Outlive It.

The music industry has spent decades growing an enormous ecosystem around a very simple act: making music and letting another human being hear it.

Not musicians. Not engineers. Not the people actually making records or concerts.

The endless layer around them: managers, consultants, curators, marketers, gatekeepers, people explaining to artists what listeners supposedly want, and people selling access to other people who may eventually give you access to an audience.

Once, much of this infrastructure was necessary. Studios, pressing plants, physical distribution, stores, radio, television, tours.

Most of those physical barriers are gone.

Music can be recorded at home, distributed globally in minutes, translated instantly and accompanied by a video made on one computer.

But the machine remained.

Worse, it grew a defensive layer around itself — a very convenient wall of shit.

When the industry is attacked, this layer becomes a shield. When a new technology appears, it becomes a battering ram. And most importantly, it teaches artists that life outside the system is impossible.

Spend enough years entering the maze and eventually you start defending the maze itself.

That is how we got one of modern culture’s funniest creatures:

**the obedient revolutionary.**

You can rebel. Be punk. Scream. Smash guitars. Hate the system.

Just make sure the rebellion fits the campaign, the schedule and the target demographic.

The industry became extremely good at selling rebellion against everything except itself.

But this is only the first problem.

The second is much bigger.

## The Industry Bet on a Temporary Version of the Human Brain

For the last fifteen or twenty years, digital media has optimized itself around constant small rewards.

Next song. Next clip. Next image. Next hook. Next emotional hit.

Didn’t grab them in two seconds? Fuck it. Next.

Everything is measured: retention, skip rate, completion rate, the second when the listener leaves.

And somewhere along the way, the industry made a dangerous assumption:

if this works now, this must simply be how humans work.

It isn’t.

The reward system adapts.

Predictable reinforcement loses impact. The brain learns the pattern. Dopamine signalling shifts toward the cue predicting the reward rather than the reward itself.

And one distinction becomes very important:

**“I want another one” and “I like this” are not the same thing.**

So the race begins: shorter songs, earlier choruses, faster cuts, louder mixes, harder contrast. Remove the intro. Remove the pause. Remove the silence. Remove anything that might leave someone alone with their own thoughts for five fucking seconds.

But the human reward system also changes with age.

Not because “dopamine runs out at 28.” That is nonsense.

But reward sensitivity, novelty seeking and behavioural responses do change as people mature.

What works beautifully on an eighteen-year-old does not necessarily work on the same person at thirty-five.

The industry optimized itself not for the human brain, but for **a temporary biological state of the human brain** — and mistook it for permanence.

That may become very expensive.

## And the Industry Is Already Smaller Than It Looks

Recorded-music revenue reached about **$31.7 billion in 2025**.

A record, apparently.

Except the market was already around **$25 billion in 1999**.

Adjusted for inflation, that is roughly **$48–49 billion today**.

And if the industry had merely maintained approximately the same real revenue per person while the world population grew from around six billion to more than eight billion, today’s market would be roughly **$65–67 billion**.

Instead it is $31.7 billion.

Distribution became almost free. The potential audience exploded. Geography largely disappeared.

Yet the real economic scale of the industry per person collapsed.

So yes, technically the patient is gaining weight.

Twenty-five years ago he weighed 100 kilograms.

Now he weighs 65.

And he has grown another half metre taller.

But the trend is positive.

## AI Is Not the Killer

Large studios already use AI for mastering, restoration, stem separation, voice processing, analytics, marketing and visual production.

The real problem begins when small creators discover something much more dangerous:

**the industry itself may no longer be necessary.**

A tiny project can now write, arrange, record, generate, mix, make a video, translate, publish globally, watch the response and completely change direction next week.

Not because AI is magic.

Because the infrastructure between creator and listener has collapsed.

That is why I don’t think AI will “kill” the music industry.

AI-native projects may simply **outlive it**.

If listeners want longer songs tomorrow, a small project can make longer songs. If they get sick of hyperactive editing, it can stop. If complicated music comes back, it can make complicated music. If people want silence, it can leave silence.

Large organizations can adapt too.

They simply carry more mass.

And mass has inertia.

A small AI-native project carries a laptop.

That is the difference.

This is almost a classic evolutionary trap.

Dinosaurs did not lose because mammals were better dinosaurs.

They lost because the environment changed, and being a dinosaur stopped being an advantage.

AI-native projects do not need to become better record labels.

They only need to survive the environment in which record labels stop being the optimal form.

That is when the old music industry really ends.

Not when AI writes a better song than a human.

Not when a virtual singer fills a stadium.

But when the new system looks at the old one and realizes there is nothing worth buying.

Because music, artists and listeners no longer belong to the middleman.

Everything else is just very expensive inheritance.

2 months ago |[YT] | 3

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STACK/9 Beta is now open to creators.

You can register your own author account and publish videos directly on the platform.

Your first publication is reviewed by an admin. After that, you can publish freely without pre-approval.

One important thing: please take a moment to set the content labels as accurately as possible. Don’t try to guess what is “allowed.” Just describe what is actually in your work and how strongly it is expressed.

This is an open Beta, so bugs are still possible.

Publish. Test it. Break it if you can.

STACK/9
9x9.online/

2 months ago |[YT] | 0

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The GEMA Ruling Is Not Against AI Musicians — It Is Against Copy Factories


The German ruling in **GEMA v. Suno** is often described as a threat to all AI-generated music.

That interpretation misses the real point.

The ruling targets systems that use copyrighted works as free training material and then produce recognizable substitutes for those works. It does not automatically turn every musician who uses AI into a copyright infringer.

There is a fundamental difference between asking a model to imitate a famous song and using AI as a production tool for your own composition.

My workflow begins with my own lyrics, musical structure, melody, harmony, score, or MIDI. AI may help with performance, arrangement, instrumentation, or generating production variants, but I select, edit, mix, master, and license the final work myself.

I also reject any generation in which I clearly hear somebody else’s composition. When a result fits my own idea but still makes me suspicious, I check it through several music-recognition and plagiarism-search services before using it.

This does not provide absolute immunity, but it creates strong evidence of independent creation, reasonable caution, and genuine human authorship.

The same principle applies to classical music. Public-domain compositions can be rearranged and transformed, although modern arrangements, editions, performances, and recordings may still have separate protection.

The likely result of the GEMA ruling is not the death of AI-assisted music.

It is a clearer division between:

**AI as a creative instrument**

and

**AI as a factory for producing substitutes from copyrighted catalogs.**

For real composers, creators, and producers who work from original material, document their process, check suspicious similarities, and maintain clear licenses, this ruling may actually strengthen their position.

The button is not the author.

The creative process is.

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#GEMA #SunoAI #AIMusic #Copyright #MusicCopyright #AIArtist #Composer #MusicProducer #GenerativeAI #FairUse #IndependentArtist #FutureOfMusic

2 months ago |[YT] | 0