Portraits

Portraits

Fictional DACH composite characters. Each story begins with a concrete scene and closes with a Werkstattnotiz (workshop note, kept in German): an observation on what remains fragile, unresolved, or open to testing on this path.

Arvid Linde, 42, musician and audio AI developer

Arvid Linde first used AI to clean up an old demo recording. The hiss disappeared, but so did something else: a room tone, a little dirt, the sense that the song had been played by tired people in…

Karim Nerz, 35, theatre maker and AI dramaturge

Karim Nerz first tested a language model for dialogue and was bored by how reasonable everyone sounded. The conflict arrived neatly, explained itself and left before the scene could become…