Light Box

8. In Their Skin: The AI Beatles

I found recordings online of the Beatles in 1969, goofing around at rehearsal and drifting in and out of their old songs. They totally sounded like they could be the real

7. James and the Copper Wire

AI music is supposed to be what ends musicians’ careers. For James Hinton, aka The Range, it might be what saves his. For a decade, he made his music out of strangers’ vo

6. UDIO: A Post-Mortem?

For a lot of people, Udio was the AI music app where they finally got to make the songs they’d been hearing in their heads for years. Then one night last fall, Udio settl

5. Slop (Who Is This For?)

A year ago, I was driving my daughter home from preschool when Spotify autoplayed a song that cut out mid-note. It was AI, and whoever made it hadn't bothered to fix the

4. The Critic (Marc Ribot)

Marc Ribot has played guitar for Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Norah Jones, Robert Plant, and about a thousand other people. He's also one of the most outspoken critics of A

3. The Hit Factory (Part II: Steal From Everyone)

A producer with 13 billion streams posts on Reddit about how much he loves making music with AI and... gets banned. We have the conversation that wasn't allowed there.

2. The Hit Factory (Part I: No Songs Left Behind)

There's already a #1 hit made with AI. You just don't know which one. In this episode, we go inside the world of professional songwriting camps -- where hits for the bigg

1. Inside the Black Box

Composer Mark Henry Phillips logs onto an AI music generator expecting slop. Instead... he has an existential crisis. What it made wasn't slop -- it was good. Really good

Teaser

A sneak peek at what's coming this season on Light Box, the new show from PRX's Radiotopia. Launching September 15. Host and creator Mark Henry Phillips is a professiona

Trailer

Listen to LIGHT BOX, the new show from PRX's Radiotopia. Out now!    Mark Henry Phillips spent twenty years composing music for a living. Then one night he typed a few wo