Science fiction novelist Philip K Dick once asked: do androids dream of electric sheep? Five decades later, techno star Reinier Zonneveld is asking whether AI models have ever envisioned producing stadium-sized techno.
Science fiction is the reality we’re living in, with rapidly advancing technology now redrawing every aspect of our lives. In electronic music, Reinier is leading the charge with the R² project, an AI model trained on his own “musical brain” that triggered sounds, composed melodies and even physically played instruments as part of his 10-hour headline performance at his R² festival earlier this summer.
