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The Lab

Where human creativity meets new tools.

Real experiments from the working life of an independent artist — creation, AI-assisted production, sound, audience behaviour, releases, promotion, data, failures and discoveries.

Not tutorials about buttons. Field research about what technology changes in real creative work.

Field studies

Questions tested in the real world.

Case Study 01 · Spotify Pre-Save

The Button That Is Supposed to Be Simple

Why Spotify pre-save still fails to fully accomplish its main purpose — even with paid tools, better design and fewer steps.

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Research Paper 02 · Music & AI

From Legal War to Licensed Generation

Suno, BMG, and the new architecture emerging between generative AI, rights holders, artists and the music market.

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Research Paper 03 · Music Charts & AI

Who Is Already Sharing the Charts with Algorithms?

Where AI music is measured, how it compares with human-led releases, and what chart success really tells us in August 2026.

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Research Paper 04 · Copyright · EN & RU

You Can Sell the Rights to a Song. But Can You Sell Authorship?

A comparative study of authorship, moral rights and economic ownership across the EU, UK, US, Russia and selected CIS jurisdictions.

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Research Paper 05 · Streaming Statistics & AI · EN & RU

How Much AI Music Is on Streaming Platforms—and What Exactly Are We Counting?

Why official figures can be accurate within their methodology while still missing much of AI-assisted and hybrid music production.

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Research Paper 06 · Audio Detection & Provenance · EN & RU

Can You Hear AI?

Technical signs, file provenance, and why confidence about the origin of a recording is not the same as proof.

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Research Paper 07 · AI Music Farms · EN & RU

AI Music Farms: When Emotion, Content, and Popularity Become Industrial Production

How automated music factories differ from responsible AI-assisted creation—and why artificial streams are only one part of the system.

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Research Paper 08 · Professional Workflow & Provenance · EN & RU

From Generation to Production: What Suno’s New Rules Mean for Professional Artists

Why download limits may be very good news—and why every track entering a professional production process needs a documented history.

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Research Paper 09 · AI Music Platforms & Industry · EN & RU

Beyond Suno: Who Is Building the Next Major AI Music Platform?

The AI music market is moving from prompt-to-song generation toward full production ecosystems built around editing, voices, references, stems, rights and provenance.

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Research Paper 10 · Audio Transcription & Notation · EN & RU

From Audio to Notation Without Illusions

What Klangio and Basic Pitch actually heard when tested on the same vocal stem and full rock mix from “When the Soul Aches.”

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Anatomy of a case study
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What I learned