Jukebox Diffusion

It hit me with a sickening severity one night. While I stood staring down at a sink full of unwashed dishes, a feeling of nausea overwhelmed me. I had spent the day chasing down a single elusive error in a new credit scoring model. My eyes were bloodshot; my thoughts were static. It was my job. As a Data Scientist for a finance startup touting a global presence and a moral conscience, almost every day was a Hail Mary at trying to feel useful in an apathetic world.

That's why weeks later, when I connected my first patch cable to a Make Noise MATHS module, my world suddenly blossomed into thousands of splintering possibilities. This is modular synthesis I’m talking about, and it redefined my reality. A couple of VCOs and a filter later, I was plugged into an unfamiliar realm of dissonance. It was thrilling, like charting new territory, where churning clouds of sound obscured limits.

This all led to January of this year, when I plunged my life into more obscurity by quitting my job to pursue independent AI music research. Inspired by the rise of generative algorithms for text and images in 2022, I longed for a realignment in my work/life direction.

Armed with ArXiv research papers, some experience with autoencoders, and a hunger for understanding the AI tools that create sound, I began my journey into the captivating realm of generative audio.

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