ephemera

Ephemera is a digital audio workstation built for music that lives and breathes with the world around it. By assigning audio samples to specific conditions, artists open up endless "Dimensions" for a song to exist in. The result is millions of unique combinations. Create music that seamlessly crossfades based on the time of day, weather, seasons, location, moon phases, tides, and beyond.

I'm building this at a time when musicians are literally being told that "making music isn't fun" by people who would prefer you prompt music into existence instead of perform and produce it. Prompting and producing will never be the same thing, and the latter is so much more powerful.

Ephemera has been built from day one as something different. An alternative to bizarre realities, where click-a-button, "make"-a-song solutions are threatening to steer generations of would-be musicians and producers into people that never experience the joy of what it feels like when you don't prompt your music into existence.

Instead of replacing the artist, it puts us (the humans) deeper into the process, pairing traditional writing and recording with a dynamic, environmental framework built with intuitive workflow and ease of use in mind. You don't need to whip out the C++ books or ask an LLM how to use Ephemera, just follow the tooltips, and your passion.

Music made in Ephemera will always carry something AI-generated music can't: the people who made it. People are still important. Musicians never asked to make less music, and producers never asked for tools that demand less creative spirit and input. I believe we deserve a new but familiar medium, one that expands what's possible rather than reducing musicianship to how well you can describe what you want to hear in natural language. Ephemera aims to be a tool for creating "living" music, in times where we need to be reminded of our humanity more than ever.