AB[500] · Artist bibliography

dadabots: links

A selected bibliography for dadabots, ♫ ByteBeats, neural synthesis, AI music, and the Art Blocks context.

33 sources · last updated 2026-07-08

In the AB[500]: Art Blocks

Art Blocks records ♫ ByteBeats by DADABOTS x KAI as a 512-edition Factory collection released in 2021.

Art Blocks ↗ collection · 2021

Verse describes ♫ ByteBeats as compact on-chain generative music and audiovisual bytebeat code.

Verse ↗ collection · 2021

Interviews

FAST45 interviews CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski about Dadabots, music technology, and machine learning.

FAST45 ↗ interview · 2022

OpenSea publishes a Marfa Weekend conversation with DADABOTS about AI music, live neural synthesis, and Art Blocks.

OpenSea ↗ interview · 2025

Spotify hosts a podcast episode on Dadabots, CJ Carr, and the future of music.

Spotify ↗ interview · 2023

Press and criticism

New Atlas covers Dadabots' 24/7 AI death metal livestream and its real-time neural generation.

New Atlas ↗ press · 2019

The Verge reports on Dadabots' endless death metal livestream and the legal ambiguity of AI music training.

The Verge ↗ press · 2019

Revolver covers Dadabots' Relentless Doppelganger and its deep-learning death metal stream.

Revolver ↗ press · 2019

Science Focus reports on the Dadabots channel and its continuous AI-generated death metal.

Science Focus ↗ press · 2019

The Outline reviews Coditany of Timeness as a black metal album generated through neural network methods.

The Outline ↗ press · 2017

Real Life Mag discusses Dadabots, neural-network metal, and the cultural meaning of infinite death metal.

Real Life ↗ criticism · 2019

TIME places Dadabots within a broader account of musicians using AI for new musical possibilities.

TIME ↗ press · 2020

Pitchfork surveys the future of musical AI and the cultural stakes of machine-generated music.

Pitchfork ↗ criticism · 2017

Museums and institutions

ITU AI for Good profiles DADABOTS and summarizes their formation, research, livestreams, and Harmonai work.

ITU AI for Good ↗ institution · 2025

R100 Studio documents We Speak Music, the Reeps One, Dada Bots, and Bell Labs collaboration.

R100 Studio ↗ institution · 2019

MuseumNext discusses AI-generated soundscapes in Museum Barberini's Music Walks project, a relevant institutional context for AI music in museums.

MuseumNext ↗ institution · 2024

Galleries and exhibitions

Kate Vass Galerie contextualizes Art Blocks Marfa Weekend as a recurring generative art gathering and exhibition platform.

Kate Vass Galerie ↗ exhibition · 2025

Decrypt reports on Art Blocks Marfa Weekend as a major gathering for artists, collectors, and digital art communities.

Decrypt ↗ exhibition · 2023

Essays, talks and podcasts

The dadabots FAQ explains the project's self-definition as band, hackathon team, and ephemeral research lab.

dadabots FAQ ↗ essay · 2018

The dadabots science archive collects their neural synthesis research and related publications.

dadabots science ↗ archive · 2017

The Generating Black Metal and Math Rock arXiv paper details modified SampleRNN methods for raw audio generation.

arXiv ↗ paper · 2018

The Generating Albums with SampleRNN arXiv paper describes album-scale neural synthesis and machine-assisted production.

arXiv ↗ paper · 2018

The Stable Audio 3 arXiv paper documents later diffusion-based audio work co-authored by CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski.

arXiv ↗ paper · 2026

Stability AI introduces Stable Audio 2.0 and its structured long-form audio generation capabilities.

Stability AI ↗ essay · 2024

Auctions and catalogues

OpenSea's collection page indexes ♫ ByteBeats market activity and collection metadata for the secondary NFT context.

OpenSea ↗ marketplace · 2021

Profiles and archives

The dadabots music archive lists albums, livestreams, collaborations, AI Song Contest entries, and live projects.

dadabots music ↗ archive · 2024

Bandcamp hosts the dadabots music catalogue and identifies the project as two music hacker metalhead weirdos making generative music with code.

Bandcamp ↗ profile · 2024

AI Song Contest 2025 profiles DADABOTS' entry MF U UP and describes their human-AI production process.

AI Song Contest ↗ profile · 2025

AI Song Contest 2021 profiles Dadabots and their Berklee origin story.

AI Song Contest ↗ profile · 2021

Mondo profiles CJ Carr as one half of DADABOTS and summarizes the duo's formation and research history.

Mondo ↗ profile · 2025

The Dadabots GitHub repository documents code accompanying their SampleRNN research.

GitHub ↗ code archive · 2018

Video

The Dadabots YouTube channel hosts livestreams, videos, and public audiovisual experiments.

YouTube ↗ video · ongoing

CONVO EP2 features a long-form video discussion of Dadabots' origins, creative process, neural synthesis, and Web3 work.

YouTube ↗ video · 2024