CJ is one half of music hacker duo DADABOTS, along with Zack Zukowski. They met at Berklee College of Music and formed DADABOTS at Music Hack Day MIT in 2012. From punk/metal roots and touring to 80 hackathons, they realized machine learning was an even more extreme way to make sound and dove completely into eliminating themselves from music. In 2017 they published a paper at NeurIPS “Generating Black Metal and Math Rock” about SampleRNN (now considered vintage AI). Advancing from songs to endless streams, they run possibly the longest continuous 24/7 YouTube livestream, Relentless Doppelganger, generating tech death for 5+ years. They co-founded Harmonai, the music research team within StabilityAI, and created Stable Audio, which was on TIME’s best inventions of 2023. Recently they published a documentary PROMPT JOCKEYS about live DJing music that doesn’t exist yet.

DADABOTS’ ethos is simple: invent styles, release open-source code when possible, and collaborate with artists and grad students. They’ve run 24/7 generative livestreams, fused genres that shouldn’t mix, and treated machine learning as an instrument you can break and rebuild in real time. They stole fire from the gods, yes — but they also hand out matches.