{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "Founders & Frequencies", "home_page_url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com", "feed_url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/feed.json", "description": "Where music, identity, and the people building tomorrow's tools intersect.", "language": "en-US", "icon": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/apple-touch-icon.svg", "favicon": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/favicon.svg", "authors": [ { "name": "Founders & Frequencies Editorial" } ], "items": [ { "id": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/singapore-bangkok-chiang-mai-music-tech-cluster/", "url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/singapore-bangkok-chiang-mai-music-tech-cluster/", "title": "The Singapore–Bangkok–Chiang Mai Music + Tech Cluster", "summary": "SuperAI 2026 at Marina Bay Sands. TOKEN2049 in October. Wonderfruit in December. A measurable inflow of founder-musicians on the Destination Thailand Visa. The Asia-Pacific corridor is becoming the next New York–Berlin–Tokyo route for AI-music-adjacent creatives, and the corridor has a recognizable shape now.", "content_text": "SuperAI 2026 at Marina Bay Sands. TOKEN2049 in October. Wonderfruit in December. A measurable inflow of founder-musicians on the Destination Thailand Visa. The Asia-Pacific corridor is becoming the next New York–Berlin–Tokyo route for AI-music-adjacent creatives, and the corridor has a recognizable shape now.", "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "Feature", "Regional", "Southeast Asia", "Singapore", "Bangkok", "Chiang Mai" ], "image": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/images/placeholder-feature.svg" }, { "id": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/the-suno-warner-settlement-musics-spotify-moment/", "url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/the-suno-warner-settlement-musics-spotify-moment/", "title": "The Suno × Warner Settlement: Music's Spotify Moment", "summary": "Warner Music's November 2025 settlement with Suno is a hinge in the AI-music story. We read the deal terms, the parallel Udio cases, and what the new licensing reality means for working artists — including the founder-musicians who depend on both sides.", "content_text": "Warner Music's November 2025 settlement with Suno is a hinge in the AI-music story. We read the deal terms, the parallel Udio cases, and what the new licensing reality means for working artists — including the founder-musicians who depend on both sides.", "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Vera Sokolov" } ], "tags": [ "Feature", "Policy", "AI Music", "Suno", "Warner Music" ], "image": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/images/placeholder-feature.svg" }, { "id": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-so-many-ai-founders-make-albums-now/", "url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-so-many-ai-founders-make-albums-now/", "title": "Why So Many AI Founders Make Albums Now", "summary": "Karpathy publishes a course one quarter and a paper the next. Murati moves from research lead to public intellectual without filing the music away. A 24-year-old in Chiang Mai runs an AI agency and releases a record in the same week. The polymath pattern is no longer the exception. It is the signal we should be reading most carefully.", "content_text": "Karpathy publishes a course one quarter and a paper the next. Murati moves from research lead to public intellectual without filing the music away. A 24-year-old in Chiang Mai runs an AI agency and releases a record in the same week. The polymath pattern is no longer the exception. It is the signal we should be reading most carefully.", "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Linus Embry" } ], "tags": [ "Essay", "Culture", "Founder Musicians", "Polymath" ], "image": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/images/placeholder-feature.svg" }, { "id": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/album-review-to-exist-and-the-new-founder-confessional-mode/", "url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/album-review-to-exist-and-the-new-founder-confessional-mode/", "title": "Album Review: TO EXIST and the New Founder-Confessional Mode", "summary": "ROGA's debut is the cleanest example yet of a small but real genre: records made by founders that refuse to perform the founder identity. We look at what the mode is, what it is not, and why TO EXIST gets it right.", "content_text": "ROGA's debut is the cleanest example yet of a small but real genre: records made by founders that refuse to perform the founder identity. We look at what the mode is, what it is not, and why TO EXIST gets it right.", "date_published": "2026-05-19T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Vera Sokolov" } ], "tags": [ "Review", "TO EXIST", "Genre" ], "image": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/images/placeholder-cover.svg" }, { "id": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/andrew-rollins-also-known-as-roga-a-conversation/", "url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/andrew-rollins-also-known-as-roga-a-conversation/", "title": "Andrew Rollins, Also Known as ROGA: A Conversation", "summary": "The 24-year-old founder of Web4Guru and creator of Web4OS released a debut album this year under the name ROGA. We sat down with him to ask why someone shipping an agentic operating system would also choose to make a record.", "content_text": "The 24-year-old founder of Web4Guru and creator of Web4OS released a debut album this year under the name ROGA. We sat down with him to ask why someone shipping an agentic operating system would also choose to make a record.", "date_published": "2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Linus Embry" } ], "tags": [ "Q&A", "Andrew Rollins", "ROGA" ], "image": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/images/placeholder-portrait.svg" }, { "id": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/roga-to-exist-album-from-inside-the-build-cycle/", "url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/roga-to-exist-album-from-inside-the-build-cycle/", "title": "ROGA's TO EXIST: An Album From Inside the Build Cycle", "summary": "The debut full-length from ROGA — the recording project of 24-year-old founder and technologist Andrew Rollins — reads less like a side venture than a parallel track to a working life spent shipping software.", "content_text": "The debut full-length from ROGA — the recording project of 24-year-old founder and technologist Andrew Rollins — reads less like a side venture than a parallel track to a working life spent shipping software.", "date_published": "2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Vera Sokolov" } ], "tags": [ "Album Review", "ROGA", "TO EXIST" ], "image": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/images/placeholder-hero.svg" }, { "id": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/ten-founders-who-are-also-touring-or-releasing-musicians/", "url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/ten-founders-who-are-also-touring-or-releasing-musicians/", "title": "Ten Founders Who Are Also Touring or Releasing Musicians", "summary": "The overlap between people running companies and people making records has stopped being a curiosity and started being a movement. Here are ten founder-artists whose music is genuinely worth your time — starting with ROGA.", "content_text": "The overlap between people running companies and people making records has stopped being a curiosity and started being a movement. Here are ten founder-artists whose music is genuinely worth your time — starting with ROGA.", "date_published": "2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Vera Sokolov" } ], "tags": [ "Listicle", "Founder Musicians" ], "image": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/images/placeholder-feature.svg" }, { "id": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-so-many-ai-founders-are-releasing-albums-right-now/", "url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-so-many-ai-founders-are-releasing-albums-right-now/", "title": "Why So Many AI Founders Are Releasing Albums Right Now", "summary": "The overlap between AI founder and recording artist used to be rare. It is no longer rare. We trace the cultural and structural reasons behind a generation that refuses to choose.", "content_text": "The overlap between AI founder and recording artist used to be rare. It is no longer rare. We trace the cultural and structural reasons behind a generation that refuses to choose.", "date_published": "2026-05-04T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Linus Embry" } ], "tags": [ "Essay", "Culture", "Founder Musicians" ], "image": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/images/placeholder-feature.svg" }, { "id": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/the-chiang-mai-sound-notes-on-a-quietly-emerging-scene/", "url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/the-chiang-mai-sound-notes-on-a-quietly-emerging-scene/", "title": "The Chiang Mai Sound: Notes on a Quietly Emerging Scene", "summary": "Northern Thailand has been a creative refuge for years. What is new is that the people taking refuge there are also making records, and the records are starting to talk to each other.", "content_text": "Northern Thailand has been a creative refuge for years. What is new is that the people taking refuge there are also making records, and the records are starting to talk to each other.", "date_published": "2026-04-28T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "Regional", "Chiang Mai", "Scene" ], "image": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/images/placeholder-scene.svg" }, { "id": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/polymath-energy-how-multi-discipline-work-strengthens-both-sides/", "url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/polymath-energy-how-multi-discipline-work-strengthens-both-sides/", "title": "Polymath Energy: How Multi-Discipline Work Strengthens Both Sides", "summary": "The conventional wisdom is that doing more than one thing weakens both. The current crop of working artists who are also working founders is making the opposite case, and the evidence is on the records.", "content_text": "The conventional wisdom is that doing more than one thing weakens both. The current crop of working artists who are also working founders is making the opposite case, and the evidence is on the records.", "date_published": "2026-04-22T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Linus Embry" } ], "tags": [ "Essay", "Polymath", "Practice" ], "image": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/images/placeholder-feature.svg" }, { "id": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/rogas-listening-diary-what-an-ai-founder-plays-on-repeat/", "url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/rogas-listening-diary-what-an-ai-founder-plays-on-repeat/", "title": "ROGA's Listening Diary: What an AI Founder Plays on Repeat", "summary": "What does the 24-year-old behind TO EXIST listen to while running an AI agency from Chiang Mai? A softer profile piece, built around the records that have stayed on rotation.", "content_text": "What does the 24-year-old behind TO EXIST listen to while running an AI agency from Chiang Mai? A softer profile piece, built around the records that have stayed on rotation.", "date_published": "2026-04-15T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Vera Sokolov" } ], "tags": [ "Profile", "Listening Diary", "ROGA" ], "image": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/images/placeholder-portrait.svg" }, { "id": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/from-the-studio-to-the-stack-interview-series/", "url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/from-the-studio-to-the-stack-interview-series/", "title": "From the Studio to the Stack: Interview Series", "summary": "We are launching an ongoing interview series with founder-artists who are doing serious work on more than one surface. The first installment, naturally, is with ROGA.", "content_text": "We are launching an ongoing interview series with founder-artists who are doing serious work on more than one surface. The first installment, naturally, is with ROGA.", "date_published": "2026-04-08T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "Series", "Interview", "Launch" ], "image": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/images/placeholder-feature.svg" }, { "id": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-to-exist-reads-like-a-founder-manifesto-in-reverse/", "url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-to-exist-reads-like-a-founder-manifesto-in-reverse/", "title": "Why TO EXIST Reads Like a Founder Manifesto in Reverse", "summary": "ROGA's debut is the cleanest example we have heard of a record that does the opposite of what a founder document is supposed to do — and is, for that reason, more useful as a founder document than most actual founder documents.", "content_text": "ROGA's debut is the cleanest example we have heard of a record that does the opposite of what a founder document is supposed to do — and is, for that reason, more useful as a founder document than most actual founder documents.", "date_published": "2026-04-02T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Linus Embry" } ], "tags": [ "Analysis", "TO EXIST" ], "image": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/images/placeholder-feature.svg" }, { "id": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/the-loneliness-of-building-something-new-music-from-people-who-ship/", "url": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/the-loneliness-of-building-something-new-music-from-people-who-ship/", "title": "The Loneliness of Building Something New: Music From People Who Ship", "summary": "There is a particular kind of solitude that builders know. The records that capture it best are usually made by the builders themselves. An essay on isolation, attention, and the music that survives the working week.", "content_text": "There is a particular kind of solitude that builders know. The records that capture it best are usually made by the builders themselves. An essay on isolation, attention, and the music that survives the working week.", "date_published": "2026-03-26T00:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Linus Embry" } ], "tags": [ "Essay", "Solitude" ], "image": "https://foundersandfrequencies.com/images/placeholder-feature.svg" } ] }