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David (Jhave) Johnston · 2025 · Essay

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NERDS: Northern European Resonance & Dissonance Group @ EKKO Festival, Bergen, 1 November 2025

Forecasts for a Musical Future. By mid-to-late 2026, we will have real-time speech-to-audio systems. You’ll speak, hum, walk, gesture — music will respond. You’ll be able to remix, spawn genre variants, shift key signatures, modulate time. And then publish it. On the fly.

Shortly after that, we’ll enter a phase of always-on AI audio. Infinite generative streams. Personalized. Synced to biometric data: galvanic skin response, pupil dilation, heart rate, blood oxygen level, pacing of speech, facial microexpression.

This will extend to shared biometric fields. Multiple people together — hanging out, eating, dancing, making love, working — their signals merge, and so does the music. A collective perpetual algorithmic resonance aligned through metabolic symmetry.

An invited presentation on the digitalization of music given to NERDS: Northern European Resonance & Dissonance Group at EKKO Festival in Bergen, 1 November 2025.

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