Holly Herndon
Holly Herndon is an American artist and composer based in Berlin who works at the intersection of music, artificial intelligence, and decentralized technologies. She developed Holly+, a protocol that allows the public to create music using an AI voice clone of her singing voice, with usage governed by a decentralized autonomous organization. She is best known for her albums Platform and Proto, the latter of which was created using an AI neural network called Spawn. She completed her doctorate in composition at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.
“Holly Herndon: Experimental musician; creator of Holly+, an AI voice clone released publicly ~2021. Field named her a speaker he was most excited about at Config”
“She was into very specific, quirky ways of using NFTs... she open sourced her voice with AI early on. You know, this is back in like 2021 or something. 2020. I mean, it's just like the timescale that she's operating on is different than the rest of us.”
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