October 22, 2026
The day the project turned inside out
Dadbot Studio stopped being an app with an avatar inside it and became an avatar with the whole studio inside it. Here is how that happened, and why it fixes more than it changes.
Read →What we're building, what we're learning, and the people making musical theater with it.
Dadbot Studio stopped being an app with an avatar inside it and became an avatar with the whole studio inside it. Here is how that happened, and why it fixes more than it changes.
Read →There's no universal line — so stop looking for one and set it per project. Decide up front how much AI you want: none, assistive only, or generative — and record which you chose.
Read →Start a catalogue raisonné now — a running record of every piece you make, dated and described. Don't wait for a curator or the end of your career. It isn't a monument; it's a laboratory notebook.
Read →In a world drowning in AI output, the scarce thing isn't a good song — it's a work that's provably yours. Dadbot Studio is built for authorship, not generation: make it, own it, prove it.
Read →Because success was never the goal — learning is. Keep a record of what you make, and every piece teaches you something, including the failures. Learning is guaranteed; you can't fail at it.
Read →Yes — if you directed the work and can show what the tool did. Authorship was never about whether a machine touched the piece; it's about who decided, and whether the record proves it.
Read →Chromatic Fusionism® is the artistic method Stephen Shooster (Shoosty®) coined for his own practice. On closer examination it is not a claim about how the work looks — it is a claim about how an artist comes to know things, and it places the practice inside a four-hundred-year-old argument.
Read →Final Draft is for screenwriters. Dadbot Studio is for musical theater composers — a place to write the book, hear the songs, and hold the finished work in your hands.
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