dadabots: links
A selected bibliography for dadabots, ♫ ByteBeats, neural synthesis, AI music, and the Art Blocks context.
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 ↗Verse describes ♫ ByteBeats as compact on-chain generative music and audiovisual bytebeat code.
Verse ↗Interviews
FAST45 interviews CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski about Dadabots, music technology, and machine learning.
FAST45 ↗OpenSea publishes a Marfa Weekend conversation with DADABOTS about AI music, live neural synthesis, and Art Blocks.
OpenSea ↗Spotify hosts a podcast episode on Dadabots, CJ Carr, and the future of music.
Spotify ↗Press and criticism
New Atlas covers Dadabots' 24/7 AI death metal livestream and its real-time neural generation.
New Atlas ↗The Verge reports on Dadabots' endless death metal livestream and the legal ambiguity of AI music training.
The Verge ↗Revolver covers Dadabots' Relentless Doppelganger and its deep-learning death metal stream.
Revolver ↗Science Focus reports on the Dadabots channel and its continuous AI-generated death metal.
Science Focus ↗The Outline reviews Coditany of Timeness as a black metal album generated through neural network methods.
The Outline ↗Real Life Mag discusses Dadabots, neural-network metal, and the cultural meaning of infinite death metal.
Real Life ↗TIME places Dadabots within a broader account of musicians using AI for new musical possibilities.
TIME ↗Pitchfork surveys the future of musical AI and the cultural stakes of machine-generated music.
Pitchfork ↗Museums and institutions
ITU AI for Good profiles DADABOTS and summarizes their formation, research, livestreams, and Harmonai work.
ITU AI for Good ↗R100 Studio documents We Speak Music, the Reeps One, Dada Bots, and Bell Labs collaboration.
R100 Studio ↗MuseumNext discusses AI-generated soundscapes in Museum Barberini's Music Walks project, a relevant institutional context for AI music in museums.
MuseumNext ↗Galleries and exhibitions
Kate Vass Galerie contextualizes Art Blocks Marfa Weekend as a recurring generative art gathering and exhibition platform.
Kate Vass Galerie ↗Decrypt reports on Art Blocks Marfa Weekend as a major gathering for artists, collectors, and digital art communities.
Decrypt ↗Essays, talks and podcasts
The dadabots FAQ explains the project's self-definition as band, hackathon team, and ephemeral research lab.
dadabots FAQ ↗The dadabots science archive collects their neural synthesis research and related publications.
dadabots science ↗The Generating Black Metal and Math Rock arXiv paper details modified SampleRNN methods for raw audio generation.
arXiv ↗The Generating Albums with SampleRNN arXiv paper describes album-scale neural synthesis and machine-assisted production.
arXiv ↗The Stable Audio 3 arXiv paper documents later diffusion-based audio work co-authored by CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski.
arXiv ↗Stability AI introduces Stable Audio 2.0 and its structured long-form audio generation capabilities.
Stability AI ↗Auctions and catalogues
OpenSea's collection page indexes ♫ ByteBeats market activity and collection metadata for the secondary NFT context.
OpenSea ↗Profiles and archives
The dadabots music archive lists albums, livestreams, collaborations, AI Song Contest entries, and live projects.
dadabots music ↗Bandcamp hosts the dadabots music catalogue and identifies the project as two music hacker metalhead weirdos making generative music with code.
Bandcamp ↗AI Song Contest 2025 profiles DADABOTS' entry MF U UP and describes their human-AI production process.
AI Song Contest ↗AI Song Contest 2021 profiles Dadabots and their Berklee origin story.
AI Song Contest ↗Mondo profiles CJ Carr as one half of DADABOTS and summarizes the duo's formation and research history.
Mondo ↗The Dadabots GitHub repository documents code accompanying their SampleRNN research.
GitHub ↗Video
The Dadabots YouTube channel hosts livestreams, videos, and public audiovisual experiments.
YouTube ↗CONVO EP2 features a long-form video discussion of Dadabots' origins, creative process, neural synthesis, and Web3 work.
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