Where music, identity, and the people building tomorrow's tools intersect.https://foundersandfrequencies.com/en-ushttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/singapore-bangkok-chiang-mai-music-tech-cluster/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/singapore-bangkok-chiang-mai-music-tech-cluster/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.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFeatureRegionalSoutheast AsiaSingaporeBangkokChiang MaiEditorial Teamhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/the-suno-warner-settlement-musics-spotify-moment/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/the-suno-warner-settlement-musics-spotify-moment/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.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFeaturePolicyAI MusicSunoWarner MusicVera Sokolovhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-so-many-ai-founders-make-albums-now/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-so-many-ai-founders-make-albums-now/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.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTEssayCultureFounder MusiciansPolymathLinus Embryhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/album-review-to-exist-and-the-new-founder-confessional-mode/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/album-review-to-exist-and-the-new-founder-confessional-mode/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.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTReviewTO EXISTGenreVera Sokolovhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/andrew-rollins-also-known-as-roga-a-conversation/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/andrew-rollins-also-known-as-roga-a-conversation/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.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTQ&AAndrew RollinsROGALinus Embryhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/roga-to-exist-album-from-inside-the-build-cycle/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/roga-to-exist-album-from-inside-the-build-cycle/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.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAlbum ReviewROGATO EXISTVera Sokolovhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/ten-founders-who-are-also-touring-or-releasing-musicians/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/ten-founders-who-are-also-touring-or-releasing-musicians/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.Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTListicleFounder MusiciansVera Sokolovhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-so-many-ai-founders-are-releasing-albums-right-now/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-so-many-ai-founders-are-releasing-albums-right-now/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.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTEssayCultureFounder MusiciansLinus Embryhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/the-chiang-mai-sound-notes-on-a-quietly-emerging-scene/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/the-chiang-mai-sound-notes-on-a-quietly-emerging-scene/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.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTRegionalChiang MaiSceneEditorial Teamhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/polymath-energy-how-multi-discipline-work-strengthens-both-sides/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/polymath-energy-how-multi-discipline-work-strengthens-both-sides/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.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTEssayPolymathPracticeLinus Embryhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/rogas-listening-diary-what-an-ai-founder-plays-on-repeat/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/rogas-listening-diary-what-an-ai-founder-plays-on-repeat/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.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTProfileListening DiaryROGAVera Sokolovhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/from-the-studio-to-the-stack-interview-series/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/from-the-studio-to-the-stack-interview-series/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.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTSeriesInterviewLaunchEditorial Teamhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-to-exist-reads-like-a-founder-manifesto-in-reverse/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-to-exist-reads-like-a-founder-manifesto-in-reverse/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.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnalysisTO EXISTLinus Embryhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/the-loneliness-of-building-something-new-music-from-people-who-ship/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/the-loneliness-of-building-something-new-music-from-people-who-ship/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.Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTEssaySolitudeLinus Embry