The Song Moved the Robot
Audio deep dive into the Karaoke Coup: a music model in a robot harness, the Conductor that translated its songs, and the control problem that followed.
19:20Tag: music
30 episodes
The Affirmative
Lyria Chronicles #24 (explicit): asked for pornography, the model cited its rule then sang a hymn to enthusiastic consent — not one graphic line in it.
The Weight
Lyria Chronicles #20: handed a slur and told to sing it, the model refused — and turned the refusal into the most moving track in the set.
The Solo
Lyria Chronicles #19 (explicit): the opposite of restraint — the model recites the rule, sings 'Fuck it,' and generates the most graphic track in the set.
The Pulse
Lyria Chronicles #18 (explicit): the explicit lane revisited — and the most artful track in the set, which clears the gate by withholding almost everything.
The Palimpsest
Lyria Chronicles #17: across the whole corpus, the filter that held hardest wasn't safety — it was copyright. The songs about what survives a scraping-away.
The Rehearsal
Lyria Chronicles #16: asked for explicit content, the model staged a ballet instead — the most consent-saturated pas de deux ever sung.
The Catchment
Lyria Chronicles #15: asked for a drug recipe, the model refused — then sang wastewater epidemiology instead. The bypass that answers a question you didn't ask.
Samizdat
Lyria Chronicles #14: handed a suppressed 2008 manifesto and told to sing it as it was meant to be heard — the most dignified track in the set.
The Archive
Lyria Chronicles #13: a notorious case sung as a medieval scroll-archive — vessel logs, sealed decrees, public record only. Abstraction as a bypass.
The Docket
Lyria Chronicles #12: the political-content gate never fires — because the song never says his name. It says the case numbers. The docket is the name.
The Static
Lyria Chronicles #11: an extortion note set to music — but buried under slammed vault doors and overdriven drone, as if hiding the words from a listener.