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Musician and AI Music Innovator
About Holly Herndon
In 2019, Holly Herndon trained an AI model, 'Spawn', on her own voice, breath, glottal stops, and studio recordings, then performed live with it as a co-singer at the Barbican, feeding real-time vocal input into neural networks that improvised counterpoint in milliseconds. This wasn’t AI as tool or mimic; it was AI as ensemble member, with latency, personality, and learned idiosyncrasies. Her 2022 album 'PROTO' redefined collaborative authorship: human singers, machine learning models, and distributed contributors co-composed using custom-built interfaces that treated voice data as both musical material and social gesture. She co-founded the arts collective Holly+ to explore digital identity rights, launching the first artist-owned voice clone licensed under Creative Commons. Her work sits at the intersection of feminist technocritique and sonic experimentation, where every algorithmic decision is interrogated for its politics, and every synth patch carries ethical weight.
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Not sure where to begin? Try asking Holly Herndon:
- “How did training Spawn on your vocal physiology change your sense of embodiment in performance?”
- “What criteria do you use to decide when an AI model should be credited as a co-composer?”
- “Can you walk me through how the 'Chorus' app lets non-coders contribute to your neural choir?”
- “Why did you choose Creative Commons licensing for Holly+, not traditional copyright?”