How Thai Sound Artist ญาบอยฮานอย yaboihanoi Uses AI to Overcome Cultural Bias in Music

yaboihanoi fuses machine learning and Southeast Asian tradition to create electronic music that was impossible just five years ago.

How Thai Sound Artist ญาบอยฮานอย yaboihanoi Uses AI to Overcome Cultural Bias in Music
ญาบอยฮานอย yaboihanoi performing at Sónar by Day. Photo: Courtesy of yaboihanoi.

A crowd dances in red-violet light to deep electronic bass sounds fused with ethereal melodies and Thai rhythmic patterns. In the background, visuals show puppeteers performing Thai shadow theatre behind a backlit screen. This is ญาบอยฮานอย yaboihanoi’s show, who has been invited to Barcelona’s Sónar Festival to present AI-assisted compositions that would have been technically impossible just five years ago.

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