iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I just released a new track! I use AI for sound design: - Generate samples (stable audio) - Transform guitars (stable audio) - Generate percussive textures (moises) I handle composition and production myself.. because making music is fun :) + info: artintech.substack.com/p/undergroun...

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

wrapping up CULOCODO it's been my first big artistic project, but now it's time to move on to the next chapter we've compiled everything into one website: jordipons.me/apps/culocodo/ 4 interactive ai music interfaces 2 performances 1 videoclip 2 posts

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Fresh results from July 2026 at Music Arena. Happy to see the community is finding Stable Audio 3 Medium as useful as we do. It has been independently evaluated, and Medium is the second-best and fastest model for instrumental music generation, with open weights!

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

this thumbnail is for those who call "football" football

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I have absolute pitch (except when I don’t). After reviewing dozens of papers, I realized my struggles are common and are well documented in the scientific literature. I’m sure many of you are experiencing the same thing! artintech.substack.com/p/absolute-p...

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Absolute Pitch Impostor Syndrome

On why I both have and don’t have absolute pitch

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Repeat with me: agents are for writing better, not for writing faster. In this post I share my workflow for writing scientific papers with LaTeX and AI agents. artintech.substack.com/p/agents-for...

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Agents for Writing Better, Not Faster

My workflow for writing scientific papers with LaTeX and AI agents

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Agents for Writing Better, Not Faster After spending the last months experimenting with agents for writing, I think scientific writing has never been bottlenecked by typing speed. It's bottlenecked by our ability to communicate ideas clearly. 🔽🔽🔽

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Agents for Writing Better, Not Faster

My workflow for writing scientific papers with LaTeX and AI agents

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

How to get the weights from Huggingface? huggingface.co/settings/tok... + Create new token. Set permissions → Read access to contents of all public gated repos you can access → Save. export HF_TOKEN=<token> Install repo using uv and run: uv run python run_gradio.py --model medium

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Stable Audio 3, explained in 5 figures. It’s a family of open-weight models for generating instrumental music and sound effects. The models are fast, support editing, and are trained on licensed and Creative Commons audio. 👾 artintech.substack.com/p/stable-aud... 🏋️‍♂️ github.com/Stability-AI...

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

As a LaTeX table artist, my time is up. What used to take me a full day of work now takes minutes. Soon, no one will remember the hours we agonized over a single misaligned &. Pour one out for \begin{tabular}. We had a good run.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

New interview is out! Music as Software artintech.substack.com/p/music-as-s... Thanks @teropa for the insightful and engaging conversation around your artistic practice, wellbeing music, and the history of generative music.

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Music as Software

Tero Parviainen on the web as a medium for generative music.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

new AI music lawsuit independent musicians accusing google www.loevy.com/wp-content/u...

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I’m learning to produce music and regularly share my tracks with friends for feedback. Now I use AI remixes as an additional source of feedback (that often aligns with my friends’ opinions). The advantage is that you hear the feedback translated into specific musical examples.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Two unconventional uses of AI REMIXING for music production: Toplining → Explore new melodic ideas when you’re stuck. Not everyone can afford a professional topliner. Feedback → AI remixes can reveal what’s missing or overdone. Similar to sharing an unfinished track for notes.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Gradio synths are the new VSTs

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I cannot pronounce claud clode clod claud cod claut caud clod cloud code but you know what I mean.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Most parameter combinations in synthesizers sound like shit. That flexibility is what makes new sounds possible. But if we release a neural synthesizer and one prompt doesn’t sound as you expect, you’ll be mad at us. So we’ll just keep the new neural synthesizers to ourselves.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The ACE-Step 1.5 paper can be confusing. In this post I share are its main ideas: artintech.substack.com/p/ace-step-1... 1. DIFFUSION MODEL: supports multiple tasks. 2. LANGUAGE MODEL: reprompting & semantic tokens generation. 3. DATA PREPARATION: 27M songs. 4. OPEN WEIGHTS: supports LoRAs.

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ACE-Step 1.5 Explained

The ACE-Step 1.5 paper can be confusing. Here are its main ideas.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Dopamine hits now come from agents building useless apps instead of endless scrolling.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

HeartMuLa Explained It is an open-source music model that claims to perform on par with Suno. 1. HeartCodec: low-rate audio tokens 2. HeartMuLa: autoregressive model 3. HeartTranscriptor: lyrics tokens 4. HeartCLAP: text & reference-audio tokens artintech.substack.com/p/heartmula-...

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HeartMuLa Explained

Does HeartMuLa outperform Suno in music generation?

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Love that the AI music conversation is moving toward interactive music and fans-driven art. - artintech.substack.com/p/interactiv... - www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc... - aiformusicworkshop.github.io - www.universalmusic.com/universal-mu...

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The future of AI music won’t shape itself. It’s up to us to imagine what it can become. If its current state feels like ‘slop,’ consider creating something different yourself. While this essay has focused on Interactive AI Music, I’m sure there’s still much more to discover.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

AI music doesn’t have to be ‘slop’. It can be Interactive! Over the break, I wrote a post defining Interactive AI Music, a term that brings together my favorite artistic projects in AI and music. artintech.substack.com/p/interactiv...

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

New written interview! “On Shared Musical Agency” with Martin Heinze (marts~) artintech.substack.com/p/on-shared-...

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On Shared Musical Agency

Interviewing marts~ to learn about his story and artistic vision.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

AI art is criticized for feeling soulless, lacking relatability and human narrative. But AI art does not need to be like that. I strongly believe that AI can be used to create art that was previously impossible and that it will be equally appealing as previous art forms.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

New post is out! This time, I go through Meta's new model for source separation. "SAM Audio Explained" artintech.substack.com/p/sam-audio-...

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SAM Audio Explained

Wouldn’t it be cool to separate any audio using a single model?

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The key issue in AI art is agency. We need workflows that produce art that clearly feels like it’s from the artist.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The concept of interactive AI music is gaining traction.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Lately I’ve been meeting many AI musicians. I enjoy that first day when I don’t yet grasp their artistic practice or fully follow what they say. But as we interact, our language becomes similar. Especially in how we refer to concepts/ideas. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

AI should be used to create art in ways that are both ethical and compelling. Ethics are important, but being compelling is just as important. If it isn’t, there’s little reason to use AI for artistic creation.

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Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I would modulate that by saying that it's possible to create AI art that draws attention to its process, mechanics and biases - its artefacts and politics. But I think you probably agree with that already, there just aren't enough characters in posts to say it all in one.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Repetition is a human invention. Nature rarely repeats itself. Yet, we play the same music and films over and over. Generative art changes every time you experience it. What if generative AI ends up feeling more NATURAL than the static media of today?

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Got the Pixel—the AI is built-in and great. I don't understand the need for separate AI devices. Maybe glasses could work to help our posture, but having a camera on your face is awkward.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Many AI artists/scientists using the term ML (machine learning) instead of AI to avoid pushback.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

@GANTASMO | AI Music Interviews artintech.substack.com/p/gantasmo-a... Uniquely address the AI live performance challenge with XR and explore AI music through the uncanny sound.

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GANTASMO | AI Music Interviews

GANTASMO performs AI music live with XR.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

FYI: computers have been used to create art before.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I'm against BAD (AI) music. I'm against BAD (AI) art.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

FREESOUND TO THE RESCUE Celebrating 20 years of Freesound in an essay. artintech.substack.com/p/freesound-...

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Freesound to the Rescue

How open data powered a decade of audio research.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

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...

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Why Artists Don’t Use AI

On AI narratives and why artists don’t consider AI for their work.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Never thought I’d be promoting my music in LinkedIn. Weird times.

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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...

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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...

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Jordi Pons @jordiponsdotme.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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.

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